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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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 […]
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Burning Cow Music Festival Announces 2017 Lineup
Burning Cow Music Festival will bring nationally renowned and emerging blues, alt-country and rock n’ roll bands from across the country to Door County on July 27-29. The 40-acre festival site just north of Sturgeon Bay will resonate with the sounds of camping fans and accomplished musicians alike. Free camping is provided with each ticket […]
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2017 Summer Music Preview Deadline Approaching
As we’ve done in the past, 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 […]
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North Dakota Songsmith to Perform at Lost Moth Gallery
Josh Harty will perform at Lost Moth Gallery on April 15 at 7 pm. Harty is a North Dakota songsmith and a third generation musician. After playing in several cover bands in Fargo during his teens, Harty started his songwriting career when a local booking agent asked him if he could perform 45 minutes worth […]
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Door County’s Got Talent: Senior Organizes Community-Wide Talent Show
A Gibraltar senior with a lifetime of memories in the performing arts hopes to give back to the school programs that inspired her involvement in theater with a community-wide talent show. The event on April 15 is an open invitation for residents to share their talents with the community and is the culmination of Hadley […]
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NYC Subway Girl Takes Over WRiTERS NiGHT
The Holiday Music Motel’s weekly WRiTERS NiGHT for musicians, poets, storytellers and artists has found its newest host with the arrival of Cathy Grier, an East Coast singer-songwriter whose four decades-long career has taken her from Connecticut biker bars to Paris, France and finally to the motel’s Tambourine Lounge. No stranger to the musical underground, […]
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Scott Cook to Play at Last Concert for White Gull Inn Winter Series
Singer-songwriter Scott Cook will perform April 5 at the White Gull Inn in Fish Creek. It is the last concert of the inn’s winter season. Tickets for the 8 pm performance are $19. A roots balladeer with a rare personal warmth, Canada’s Scott Cook has managed to distill the stories collected over a decade of […]
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Riders in the Sky to Take the Stage at the Southern Door Auditorium
Two-time Grammy winners Riders in the Sky will take to the stage at the Southern Door Community Auditorium on March 31 at 7 pm. Come hear America’s favorite cowboys as the Grammy award-winning quartet sing and entertain audiences “the cowboy way” and pay special tribute to Roy Rogers. From out of the West with the […]
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Fine Arts Fest at Southern Door Schools April 6
Southern Door Elementary and Middle School will host the 17th annual Fine Arts Festival on April 6, 5 – 8 pm. The student artwork on display in the main hallways of the Elementary and Middle School is the “heart” of this celebration. The students in grades 5K – 4th grade with regular attendance in art […]
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Beer Bingo, American Dream Theater & More Weekend Plans
It’s all about good music, creative pursuits and the great outdoors this weekend on the Door Peninsula. Check out our top picks for the weekend ahead! Friday, March 31 Riders In the Sky Perpetual crowd-pleasers, this Grammy award-winning quartet mixes authentic Western music with yodeling, rope tricks, and a whole heap of crackpot humor in […]
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Catching Up with Milwaukee Songstress Sugar Ransom
A touch of Voltaire, Leonard Cohen and Milwaukee rock club life will accompany the arrival of Sugar Ransom (AKA Sarah Marie Gilbert) and her backing band, theworkersparty, during their gig at Door County Makers Space this weekend. Gilbert, the songwriter, guitarist and vocalist of the Milwaukee band, describes her musical writings as suicide western, dark […]
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Door County Makers Space Hosts House Concert Series
Sturgeon Bay native Elliot Goettelman and his wife Kelly Avenson Goettelman have been using their historic downtown building for many different purposes the last few years. The latest incarnation is called the Door County Makers Space (DCMS) and it’s a flex space for all types of thinkers. “We wanted to try to think of something […]
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Sam Llanas to Perform at Holiday Music Motel
Sam Llanas, formerly of BoDeans, will perform a house concert on March 29, 7:30 pm, at Holiday Music Motel’s Tambourine Lounge at 59 N. 2nd Ave. in Sturgeon Bay. Llanas has been infecting our musical consciousness for the past few decades as one of the primary writers and performers of the world-renowned hit-makers BoDeans (he […]