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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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 […]
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Rib Fest, Tree Lighting & More Weekend Plans
Whoever said Door County is slowing down hasn’t seen this weekend’s events calendar! Celebrate veterans with a free performance by the U.S. Air Force Band, loosen your belt for the 8th Annual Rib Fest, or head over to Ellison Bay for the first Christmas tree lighting of the season in Door! Friday, November 11 A […]
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Singer/Songwriter Bill Camplin at Lost Moth
Bill Camplin will perform at Lost Moth Gallery on Nov. 5 at 7 pm. Camplin is a folk singer/songwriter and acoustic guitarist who began playing professionally in the Milwaukee area in the late 1960s. Camplin writes and arranges his own material and has produced a considerable body of work. He was an integral part of […]
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Big Fish, Turkey Trot, Nature Hikes & More Weekend Plans
Welcome the colder, quieter days of November with a hike through some of the county’s most beautiful areas. Rather spend your time indoors? Catch some live musical theater, a hometown story screening, or a vibrant display of art in Sturgeon Bay. Friday, November 4 Outdoors at Ida Bay Join a naturalist for a gentle hike […]
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Southern Door Auditorium Unveils New Gathering Space Plans
The Southern Door Auditorium in Brussels is celebrating its 25th anniversary season with the unveiling of plans for a new gathering plaza to be located at the auditorium’s entrance. The Convocation Plaza project was announced at the auditorium’s 25th anniversary concert Sept. 24. Built around a new, more direct entrance to the auditorium’s lobby, plans […]
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Expect Stax Hits from Booker T. Jones
The year is 1962. Booker T. & the M.G.’s are a sensation with “Green Onions,” recorded on the Stax label in Memphis. The record is climbing both the pop charts (ultimately reaching No. 3) and R&B (a code word of the time for black) charts, so, naturally, the upstart label wants to take advantage now […]
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Charlie Musselwhite Says Bring Your Dancing Shoes
One of the many outstanding moments in the Memphis music documentary Take Me to the River is when the great blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite is teamed up with a Memphis band called The City Champs to do a blues tune, and Charlie picks up the guitar to show guitarist Joe Restivo how the song […]
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North Mississippi Allstars Will Take You to the River
There is an incredible moment in the movie Take Me to the River when guitarist Luther Dickinson listens to a recording of the late, great Pops Staples, writes down each note and then figures out how to recreate Pops’ guitar sounds with his daughter Mavis Staples looking on. And when Luther nails the sound in […]
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Celebrate Halloween at Dark Songs 2016
An all-star cast of 45 songwriters will present freshly written originals in the theme of Halloween at Dark Songs 2016: Oct. 28 & 29. The Holiday Music Motel’s notorious weeklong collaborative songwriting marathon starts with a bottle spin and culminates in visually and sonically stunning, darkly humorous weekend showcases. Dark Songs returns to Third Avenue […]
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Katie Dahl’s Monthly Singing Gathering Starts Nov. 3
On Nov. 3, 7 – 8:30 pm, lovers of singing are invited to take part in the inaugural “Sit Around Singing,” a monthly gathering to be held at Door County’s Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 10341 Water Street/Highway 42 in north Ephraim. “I was part of a regular singing gathering like this in college, and it taught […]
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Jack O’Lantern Days, Dark Songs & More Halloween Weekend Happenings
October’s final weekend is nearly upon us and with it comes Halloween celebrations and the final days of some of the peninsula’s seasonal galleries and shops. Head out to enjoy these businesses while the lights are on and when the sun begins to set, enjoy one of the haunted Halloween offerings with our guide to […]
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Catching Up with Singer-Songwriter Carley Baer
All my troubles and cares in a box by the stairs All my wishes are hung on a star You can break me or bleed me but if you should need me I’ll be down at the corner bar I’ll be raising my glass to the people who pass As they make a big […]
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Hometown Boy Makes Good: Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize for Lit
That was my first thought when I heard the news that Bob Dylan had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. All right, homie! My second thought? I wonder if upon learning that he was being given the award, Dylan said to someone, anyone, “Yippee. I’m a poet. I know it. I hope I don’t blow […]
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Celtic Troubadors at Lost Moth Gallery
On Nov. 19, Lost Moth Gallery will host a Celtic winter concert with Four Shillings Short. Doors open at 6 pm for treats and wine and the concert starts at 7 pm. The Celtic/folk/world music duo Four Shillings Short are coming to the Door Peninsula for the first time this November for a special Celtic […]