Category: Live Music
Door County summers are made for live music! Check out a show in a bar, a sunset concert in the park in almost any village, a professional performance venue, or a concert in a rustic barn. Door County’s live music scene features every genre, local favorites and nationally touring artists.
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Lost Moth Gallery Presents: Spike and April
Lost Moth Gallery is very excited to present the duo of Mike Judy and April Pate from Minneapolis in concert on May 27 at 7 pm. They like to go by the name Spike and April and cover a wide variety of music including jazz, Americana, folk, blues, swing and their own original songs. With […]
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2017 Door County Folk Festival Registration Now Open
Now is the time to register for the 2017 Door County Folk Festival, held July 12-16. The special guest for this year is Balkan dance instructor Steve Kotansky. This year’s folk festival includes: 14 ethnic dance workshops, 2 ethnic singing workshops, 5 ethnic dance parties, 9 contra/square workshops, 2 contra/square parties, a family barn dance, […]
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Brick Lot Pub & Grill Summer Kick Off Event
Bring the whole family for a fun-filled afternoon of great music and food for Brick Lot Pub & Grill’s summer kick off event on May 27, 2-7 pm. There’s no cover; burgers, corn and beer (IDs will be checked and wristbands given to those over 21) will be served. The two bands performing are Stephen […]
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Gypsy Swingin’ with the Milwaukee Hot Club
The walls of Door County Brewing Co. will reverberate with the lively sound of swinging 1930s jazz, bossa and Gypsy samba rhythms May 27 when Gypsy jazz quartet Milwaukee Hot Club makes its way to the stage. The Milwaukee Hot Club pays tribute to the man largely credited as Europe’s first and most significant jazz […]
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Maifest, Vintage Market and More Weekend Plans
The county is waking up after its winter-long slumber. Join us in celebrating Memorial Day as well as getting outside and enjoying everything spring. Friday, May 26 Egg Harbor Farmers Market Farmers market season has begun! Head over to Egg Harbor to pick up locally grown produce, handcrafted items during the first market of the […]
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Girls of Small Forest Perform for Girlfriends Great EGGscape
The Girls of Small Forest are performing at Lost Moth Gallery in Egg Harbor on May 20 as part of Girlfriends Great EGGscape. The concert is also open to anyone looking for some evening music in a sweet little gallery atmosphere with after dinner coffee and dessert provided. Jeanne Kuhns and Marybeth Mattson, a mother/daughter […]
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Peg Egan Announces 2017 Summer Concert Series
The Peg Egan Performing Arts Center is thrilled to announce a crowd-pleasing line-up of nationally acclaimed artists for its 2017 Summer Concert Series. Located in Eames Cherry View Park in Egg Harbor, the outdoor amphitheater offers sweeping views of scenic landscape and sunsets over the harbor and has ground room for 2,000 visitors; bringing blankets […]
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Tannahill Weavers Bring A Little Bit of Scotland to Washington Island
The Tannahill Weavers, one of Scotland’s premier traditional bands, will present a concert at the Trueblood Performing Arts Center on Washington Island on Saturday evening, May 13. The group, described by the New York Times as “an especially eloquent mixture of the old and the new,” was named for poet laureate Robert Tannahill (1774-1810), […]
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Door County Musicians on Their Favorite Instruments
We asked some of Door County’s best-known musicians: if you had to pick just one instrument from your collection to play, which would it be? Dorothy Scott: Custom-Made Model T35 “The wood comes from Palmer Johnson’s and it’s custom made by Tony Louscher in Green Bay. There’s only about four or five of these bad […]
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Cookery Kicks off 2017 Music Lineup
The Cookery is kicking off its 2017 live music line-up with Deathfolk on May 6 at 3:30 pm. Deathfolk is Jess Holland and Nick Hoover, local favorites who play old-timey folk music peppered with tight harmonies. For Mother’s Day weekend, Girls of Small Forest will play May 13 at 6 pm. Mother/daughter duo Marybeth Mattson […]
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Lost Moth Gallery Hosts Cathy Grier
Lost Moth Gallery is pleased to welcome Cathy Grier to perform on May 6 at 7 pm. Singer/songwriter Grier believes in the power of music. Her four-decades-long career began in biker bars in Connecticut, then on to Greenwich Village, New York City, touring the East Coast with her band, sunset gigs in Key West, Paris […]
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Little Marsh Overflow Reunites for Door County Gig
The annual emancipation from winter to spring over the Door Peninsula brings with it an array of entertainment, and none better than the live musical acts that dot the county during the seasonal swing. On May 12, the Landmark Resort in Egg Harbor will enter the live concert season with a bang as they host […]
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Ruby James Returns to Thelma Sadoff Center for Performing Arts
For the past few years, Ruby James has been rocking dance halls all across the nation as half of the duo fronting the wildly popular R&B/new vintage ensemble WiFEE and THE HUZz BAND. Prior to WiFEE, James, an established recording artist in her own right, toured the country in support of four solo albums she […]
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Tanya Godsey to Perform at National Day of Prayer
This year’s National Day of Prayer, May 4, features the music of award-winning singer-songwriter Tanya Godsey at The Master’s Cup Coffee House, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Sturgeon Bay. The evening show is part of The Master’s Cup Coffee House concert series. Godsey will begin sharing her music at 6:30 pm, but the public is […]
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2018 Summer Music Preview Deadline Approaching
The Peninsula Pulse will bring you a rundown of this summer’s live music gigs through our annual Summer Music Preview in June. There will be a calendar of live music events, a list of music venues, and highlights of the season’s biggest gigs. Businesses, organizations and musicians – let us know about your upcoming music events! […]
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Hans Christian Releases New Album
Hans Christian’s new CD project, titled Be Love, contains seven songs that feature Jim Beckwith’s sensitive vocals and a lush production and orchestration by Christian. Beckwith’s lyrical reflections on life have a timeless beauty to them and his singing in Sanskrit and English is unsurpassed. Beckwith is known throughout the yoga scene for his sensitive […]
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DCA Announces 2017 Main Stage Season
Door Community Auditorium (DCA) is pleased to announce its 2017 performance schedule, featuring an eclectic and energetic mix of dance, theater, and music in a state-of-the-art venue. “The 2017 Main Stage Season is one of the most exciting seasons I’ve worked on,” says DCA Executive Director Cari Lewis. “This year’s performers are of unparalleled artistic […]
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Door County Musicians Katie Dahl and Jess Holland Joined by Chicago singer-songwriter for Concert
Popular Door County musicians Katie Dahl and Jess Holland will join Chicago singer-songwriter Emily White for a concert above Base Camp Coffee Shop in Sister Bay on April 30 at 7 pm. Katie Dahl, Jess Holland and Emily White are Midwestern songwriters with loyal fan bases and multiple accolades to their collective credit. Though they […]
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Lost Moth Celebrates Earth Day with a Concert
On April 21 at 7 pm, Lost Moth Gallery is pleased to celebrate Earth Day by presenting a “Love the Earth” Concert. Three musical acts will perform that have a heart for environmental issues and love to sing about their love of the ecology of Door County and our planet. Tarl Knight describes himself as […]
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Crowdfunding for Deathfolk’s Debut Album
After spending the better part of a decade playing gigs at bars and festivals across the peninsula, old-timey folk duo Deathfolk has launched a crowdfunding campaign and entered the recording studio with plans to release their debut album in June. The acoustic/electric duo of Jess Holland and Nick Hoover has been playing music together since […]