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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Play It Forward Concert to Benefit Go Bo! Foundation
On Dec. 29, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) will present its fourth annual Play It Forward concert, bringing together many of Door County’s favorite musicians to benefit a worthy cause. Through these musicians’ donated time, as well as the freewill donations collected at the concert, Play It Forward celebrates the warmth and light of the holiday […]
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Hagen Family Holds Annual TAP Reunion Concert Dec. 17
Join the Hagen family for their annual reunion concert at Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) on Dec. 17 at 7:30 pm. Native Washington Islander Julian Hagan and his family of musicians present a multi-generational celebration of Christmas every year at TAP in Sturgeon Bay. Full of songs and stories, the show features a wide variety of […]
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Pulse Honors Lost Musicians of 2016 with Vinyl Tribute
I was honored to be asked to serve as DJ for the Pulse annual holiday party. After giving it some thought, I suggested we celebrate the musicians who died in 2016. So many. Prince, of course. David Bowie. Leon Russell. Sharon Jones. Bernie Worrell. Rudy Van Gelder. Kay Starr. Scotty Moore. Keith Emerson. Leonard Cohen. […]
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Christmas Bird Count, Holiday Tunes & More Weekend Plans
It’s the weekend before Christmas – why not share in the holiday spirit with your friends and community during this weekend’s play readings, holiday concerts and a special tailgate fundraiser for Sunday’s game? Friday, December 16 Holiday Readings Door County’s Learning in Retirement’s Winter Reading Theater presents the beloved classics, A Child’s Christmas in Wale […]
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Katie Dahl Releases Single Reflecting on Election, Holidays
On Dec. 2, Door County songwriter Katie Dahl released “In the Dark,” a single she calls “a hymn for the longest nights of the year.” Dahl recorded the song in Memphis in mid-November. Although she wrote it almost a year ago, she says the divisive political climate and the change of the seasons in the […]
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Natural Christmas, Tree Lightings & More Weekend Plans
The Door Peninsula is alive with holiday festivities. Take it all in Door County style with an ugly sweater run, The Ridges’ Natural Christmas, and The Peninsula Singers annual Christmas concert. Friday, December 9 The Clearing Festivities Celebrate the sights, sounds and treats of the season with The Clearing Folk School’s annual holiday open house. […]
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White Gull Welcomes String Ties Bluegrass Band Dec. 7
The Wisconsin bluegrass group String Ties is next up for the White Gull Inn’s Winter Folk Concert series, performing Wednesday, Dec. 7. String Ties calls the hills of the upper Mississippi home, blending bluegrass, old-time country, swing, gospel and folk into an engaging version of acoustic music, evoking nostalgia, love lost and found, moonshine hills, […]
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Kim Souther Holds Album Release Party at 5th and Jefferson Coffeehouse
An album release party will be held Dec. 8, 6:30 – 9:30 pm, at 5th and Jefferson Coffeehouse in Sturgeon Bay for cellist Kim Souther’s latest album, Songs for Friends. Come support a great local business, grab a CD, mingle and support education in the Congo and Southeast Asia and blanketing the children of Swaziland.
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Lost Moth Gallery Starts December with Pair of Concerts
Lost Moth Gallery will host a pair of concerts for the second week of December. Michael Smith will take the stage on Dec. 9 at 7 pm. The gallery is honored to present one of the most captivating songwriters in the folk arena, the celebrated Michael Peter Smith. He has toured the United States and […]
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Winter Warmer Release, Holiday Fests & More Weekend Plans
‘Tis the season to be jolly! Why not amp up your Christmas spirit with some winery open houses, a couple local festivals and a wonderful night sky hike? Friday, December 2 Holiday Open Houses Kick off your first December weekend with a sampling of local wineries! Parallel 44 Winery in Kewaunee is decked out for […]
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Milwaukee Songstress Liv Mueller to Perform Sturgeon Bay Show
A veteran of the Holiday Music Motel’s thrice-yearly songwriting festivals, Milwaukee songstress Liv Mueller returns to Sturgeon Bay this Saturday for an evening performance at Door County Makers Space. The visit comes a day after a reunion concert at Linneman’s Riverwest Inn in Milwaukee with her former indie rock band, The Lovelies. Originally formed in […]
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Thanksgiving Day Parade, Holiday Festivities & More Weekend Plans
It’s all about family, friends and community this weekend in Door County! Join the generous folks in Jacksonport for the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, head to Sister Bay and Egg Harbor for a weekend of festive fun, and shop local on Small Business Saturday. Thursday, November 24 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade It’s the […]
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Rockapella Comes to Door Community Auditorium Nov. 26
The a cappella singing group Rockapella first gained fame after their appearance in 1991 on the PBS series, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? The object of this popular kids’ game show was to use knowledge of geography to track Carmen Sandiego, the leader of a crime syndicate. Since then, the tours of Rockapella […]
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Marcus Trana: No Escaping the Music
When music producer and drummer Marcus Trana came to Sturgeon Bay from his native Norway, he thought he was done with the music scene. “I was burned out,” he says. Trana relocated to Wisconsin in 2013 with his wife, Charlotte Baierl, a Door County native, and the couple started Nistebox, Sturgeon Bay’s signature food truck. […]
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Four Shillings Short. 40+ Instruments to Spare.
For a band named Four Shillings Short, this Celtic/folk/world husband-wife duo is anything short in the instrument department. From mountain dulcimers and Renaissance woodwinds to the North Indian sitar and the bowed psaltery, Christy Martin and Aodh Óg O’Tuama are a touring couple of epic musical proportions. For nearly two decades, they have brought their […]
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WiFEE and THE HUZz BAND Releases Second Track to Sirius
The track recorded by WiFEE and THE HUZz BAND, “Are You Ready to Die” by Cary Ann Heart, will premiere on Underground Garage’s Goldie’s Garage, a monthly show on Sirius Radio dedicated to new releases, on Nov. 18. In addition to the usual members of the band, melaniejane is also featured on backing vocals for […]
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Christmas by the Bay, Old Timey Folk & More Weekend Plans
Start your holiday season with a visit to Sturgeon Bay for this weekend’s Christmas by the Bay! Carry that holiday joy through the rest of the weekend with local arts and crafts, music and a late-autumn hike. Friday, November 18 Celebrate the Holiday Season Sturgeon Bay hosts its annual Christmas by the Bay this weekend, […]
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Plenty of Spine-Tingling Moments at Winter Blues Fest
Every moment of hipster history seemed to swell inside the Door Community Auditorium as Booker T. Jones unleashed the famous “Green Onions” riff on his Hammond C3 organ at the second night of the Winter Blues Fest. And then Jones’ son, Ted, came in on guitar with the tight, crisp, biting, insistent and eloquent Telecaster […]
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Free Starlifter U.S. Air Force Band Concert at DCA
On Nov. 11 at 7 pm, Starlifter U.S. Air Force Band of Mid-America will present a free concert at Door Community Auditorium (DCA). Starlifter is a group of seven professional musicians whose music inspires patriotism, connects communities with military service members, and honors our country’s veterans. Starlifter performs in virtually every musical idiom, from rock […]
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White Gull Winter Concert Series Begins with Robbie Fulks
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Robbie Fulks will be featured at the first of five concerts scheduled in the 33rd season of winter folk concerts at the White Gull Inn in Fish Creek on Nov. 16. Fulks is prodigiously talented, with the soul of a country singer and the mind of a vaudevillian. Widely regarded as one […]