Category: Live Music

“We’re pretty passionate, definitely sweaty,” laughs Cary Ann Hearst of Shovels and Rope, an up-and-coming, energetic rock/roots/Americana/bluegrass band consisting of Hearst and her husband, Michael Trent.

Jenny Bienemann’s Heading Slowly Toward The Beginning CD release party will be held during the Woodwalk Concert Series on July 5 at 7 pm. Bienemann is a sought-after solo performer and seasoned harmony singer.

Legendary funk/soul band The Family Stone will put a fresh spin on their classic hits when they perform at Door Community Auditorium on July 5. The Family Stone centers around Jerry Martini, Cynthia Robinson, and Greg Errico, all Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, R&B Pioneer Award winners, and founding members of Sly and the Family Stone.

Coming off the success of their New Year’s Eve concert together, Todd Carey and Door County’s The Offseason, featuring Nick Hoover, Elliot Goettelman, Josh Gregory and Rob Gay, join forces once again on July 6 at The Hitching Post to celebrate and honor the music of The Grateful Dead.

It’s that time of year again. Trek to Camp David this weekend to kickoff this year’s Fishstock Music Series. Hey mon! Unity, Door County’s favorite reggae band, opens the season with the annual barn dance on July 6 at 9 pm.

On July 7 at 7 pm, The Peg Egan Performing Arts Center will present the sixth annual Folk Festival as part of the 2013 Sunset Concert Series. National touring artists Patchouli, Jana Nyberg jazz group, Dorothy Scott and Sue Demel will present the best of folk, jazz, alternative and pop music.

Ministry Door County Medical Center (MDCMC) hosts Music in the Gardens, an outdoor concert series for the whole family, on Tuesday evenings in July. Concerts are free and open to the public.

Singer Lisa Rock and her six-piece band will bring the music of The Carpenters back to the stage with their renditions of Carpenters classics with “Close to You: The Music of The Carpenters” at Third Avenue Playhouse on July 20.

The Cookery’s wine bar, located on Highway 42 in Fish Creek, is hosting a music series on Thursday nights this summer. The July music line up includes Kalen Keir, July 11; Small Forest, July 18; and Jess Holland, July 25.

The collective musical history that takes the stage of the Door Community Auditorium on Friday, June 28 in the form of The Time Jumpers is mind blowing, but the band of 11 Nashville musical luminaries has a different outlook.

Ernest Tubb is generally credited with recording the first honky-tonk song when he released “Walking the Floor Over You” on May 28, 1941. A decade later, honky tonk came into its own with the likes of Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Webb Pierce, Faron Young and a few others, only to be eclipsed in the 1960s by the smooth country pop sound that came to be known as Countrypolitan.

Buddy Mondlock writes songs, and does it so well that some great songwriters have recorded his songs on their own albums – Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith and Janis Ian, to name a few.

On June 30, Tonic Sol-fa, one of the top touring vocal groups in the U.S., will perform at the Peg Egan Performing Arts Center. Although they are simply four voices and a tambourine, Tonic Sol-fa has spent considerable time on the road carving their niche as the nation’s top vocal group.

Elvis and Orbison: The Voices of Rock, a tribute to two of music’s greatest legends, will appear at the Door Community Auditorium on July 6 at 8 pm. The show stars John Van Thiel and Danny J together with The Legendaires Show Band.

Summer music on the deck has returned to Simon Creek Vineyard & Winery every Sunday from 1 – 5 pm. As with the past several years Simon Creek features free music on the deck overlooking the vineyards and winery grounds.

Ministry Door County Medical Center announces a stellar line-up of musical diversity for the whole family on Tuesday evenings in July. Four free concerts will be performed on the hospital’s green space on 16th Avenue in Sturgeon Bay (next to the Community Garden).

Some called her the female Bob Dylan because she helped break open the singer/songwriter genre we know today. Others were inspired by her, like Elton John who told her he wrote “Crocodile Rock” because she made it okay to perform silly songs.

Jeanne Kuhns’s Woodwalk Concert Series announces a lineup of diverse local and national acts to grace the stage in the gallery barn this summer. Surrounded by the works of Margaret Lockwood and other artists, musicians perform original songs to appreciative audiences under high barn ceilings, gorgeous wood beams and walls soaked with the music of the ages.

The Door Community Auditorium (DCA) has an impressive lineup of music scheduled for late June. On June 21 at 8 pm, DCA will present an evening of music by legendary South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.