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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Dead Horses Bring Folkgrass to Woodwalk Concert Series
Jeanne Kuhns’ Woodwalk Concert Series welcomes Dead Horses to the stage July 17. Dead Horses is a young acoustic band with a cultivated folk sensibility well beyond their years.
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Chris Irwin Returns to Fishstock
Los Angeles-based musician Chris Irwin returns for his 16th annual Fishstock concert on July 19 at 7 pm. A member of American Folklore Theatre (now called Northern Sky Theater) in the late 1990s, Irwin appeared in many productions with the company, and has been a regular on various county stages through the years, playing a mix of folk and bluegrass.
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Patchouli Presents “New American Folk” at MDCMC Concert
On July 21 at 7 pm, the duo Patchouli will play Ministry Door County Medical Center’s (MDCMC) “Celebrate Community” concert. Nationally touring, award-winning songwriter Julie Patchouli and master guitarist Bruce Hecksel light up the air with sparkling acoustic sounds and their powerful contagious chemistry.
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Toe-Tapping Double Bill of The Steel Wheels and Dom Flemons
On July 23, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) will present a toe-tapping double bill of American roots music: Shenandoah Valley string band The Steel Wheels and American songster Dom Flemons.
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Country Rock Legend Charlie Daniels Coming to DCA
Few people in the country music industry have had as long and illustrious a career as Southern country-rock legend Charlie Daniels. Some attribute that to his fiery mastery of the fiddle, others to his classic storytelling through song, and still more to his good ol’ country boy charm.
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You’ve heard of Burning Man, a weeklong festival that takes place in the Nevada desert around Labor Day. The culmination of the fest is the burning of a wooden man.
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Claudia Russell Brings Americana to Woodwalk Concert Series
Woodwalk Concert Series welcomes Claudia Russell on July 10 at 7 pm. Russell is well known for her fabulous voice and inspired guitar playing, and also from many fall Northern Sky Theater (formerly American Folklore Theatre) shows.
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On July 11 at 8 pm, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) will present a performance of A Night to Remember, an exuberant night of musical storytelling that pays tribute to the night when Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash gathered at Memphis’ Sun Studios for a historic night of music.
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The Hunt Family to Take the Peg Egan PAC Stage
On July 12 at 7 pm, The Hunt Family will take the stage at the Peg Egan Performing Arts Center (PAC) in Egg Harbor. The Hunts are an indie-folk band from the southlands of Chesapeake, Virginia.
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The Answer, The Revival and Quaker City Night Hawks Headline Burning Cow
The Burning Cow Music Festival takes place July 23 – 25 on the Door Devils Motorcycle Club grounds, next to the Wisconsin Motorcycle Memorial north of Sturgeon Bay.
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Russell Howard Returns to County for Fishstock
Charlotte, North Carolina-based singer/songwriter Russell Howard has a long and special history in Door County. Having spent nearly every August of his early life on the peninsula, Howard will return Aug.
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WiFEE and THE HUZz BAND Have the “Coolest Song in the World”
How does it feel to have a song selected to air as “Coolest Song in the World” on a radio station that broadcasts to 1.2 million listeners in North America, as well as to 190-plus other countries worldwide? WiFEE and THE HUZz BAND is about to find out.
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Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons Headline “Celebrate Community” Concert July 14
On Tuesday, July 14 at 7 pm, national touring artist Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons will headline Ministry Door County Medical Center’s outdoor “Celebrate Community” concert series.
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Cavern Beat, one of America’s most distinctive Beatles tribute bands, will take the stage to open Ministry Door County Medical Center’s “Celebrate Community” Concert Series on July 7 at 7 pm.
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The Peg Egan Performing Arts Center (PAC) presents the Jimmy LaFave Band on July 5 at 7 pm. LaFave has lived in Austin for more than 20 years, making music all the while, but it was his time spent in Oklahoma as an adolescent that shaped his music.
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Singer/Songwriter Summer Series
J. Jeffrey Taylor Jewelry & Fine Art will feature live music on their front lawn with local singer/songwriter Marybeth Mattson on select Saturdays this summer.
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Woodwalk Concert Series continues with Carolyn Martin, Dave Martin, and well-known Door County favorites Eric Lewis and Rory Hoffman on July 3 at 7 pm.
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Passionately Lyrical Story Songs
On July 9, Wisconsin-based indie roots band Field Report will perform their passionately lyrical music at Door Community Auditorium. Rolling Stone says that Field Report creates “enchanting, evocative story songs.”
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‘A Night to Remember’ Cast Recreates Perkins-Cash-Lewis-Presley Jam Session
Within the walls of Memphis, Tennessee’s Sun Studios on the evening of Dec. 4, 1956, one of the most musically historic jam sessions was underway. It involved four rock ‘n roll icons under the influence of pure chance.
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Door County’s Peter Pan: Dave Ellmann
For most of the past 40 years, Dave Ellmann has rolled into Door County in May, fresh off a winter waiting tables in Florida or Hawaii, back to do the same here, his Door County Farmhouse waiting for his return. The anticipation of summer buzzes, calling Ellmann home, where he is a walking, breathing symbol […]