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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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 […]
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Birds of Chicago to Play in the Door over Independence Weekend
The soulful harmonization of the musical collective, Birds of Chicago, will assist the Door Peninsula in the celebration of America’s birth over the Fourth of July weekend.
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Modern Day Drifters Release First Album
After bringing their covers of country classics to bars and festivals across the county for the better part of the past decade, Door County’s good ol’ country boys, Modern Day Drifters, are releasing their first album.
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The 5 Milers Play Annual Benefit Show At Door Community Auditorium
The 5 Milers folk music band will return to Door County for their seventh annual benefit show on June 27. The premise of the annual event is to “give back in life,” said Rob Billings, one of the band’s founders and the “point man” in organizing the performance every year.
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MDMC Announces Line-Up for Summer Concerts
Ministry Door County Medical Center (MDCMC) announces a stellar line-up of musical diversity for the whole family on Tuesday evenings in July.
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Jeanne Kuhns will perform a solo show on June 27, 3 – 5 pm, at MacReady Bread Company’s gazebo. Kuhns is a local singer songwriter, performing progressive folk with Small Forest Band and other area musicians.
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The Janet Planet Jazz Trio will take the stage at Peg Egan PAC on June 28 at 7 pm in Egg Harbor. Jazziz magazine hailed her as a “Voice of the New Jazz Culture…amazingly powerful with seemingly limitless expression.
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Woodwalk Concert Series joyfully welcomes back the Sons of the Never Wrong on June 26 at 7 pm. This Chicago-based band has invented their own version of folk music, with songs and lyrics opening up recognition of the richness of beauty and life with a dose of joy and humor.
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On June 29, alt-rock icon Melissa Etheridge will bring her soulful lyrics and smoky, Joplin-esque vocals to the stage at Door Community Auditorium (DCA) as part of her popular This Is M.E. solo tour.
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Artists Pay Tribute To pat mAcdonald With Surprise CD Release
“No self-respecting artist can have anything to do with his own tribute album.” Joseph Kaftan recalls the night Sturgeon Bay musician pat mAcdonald uttered those words to him – the two men hanging out at Kaftan’s place in Seattle, Washington, and mAcdonald wondering aloud what his next project would be.
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Los Lonely Boys Cancels Show Due to Death of Members’ Mother
Due to the sudden death of their mother, the Los Lonely Boys have canceled their concert dates through June 23, including the June 18 concert at the Door Community Auditorium, the DCA announced June 17.
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WIFEE and the HUZz BAND will open the Peg Egan PAC Sunset Concert Series on June 21 at 7 pm. This concert series takes place at the Peg Egan PAC on Church Street in Egg Harbor and is free to the general public.
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The Cookery’s wine bar will feature Katie Dahl on Wednesday evenings throughout the summer and fall starting June 24. Dahl is a Door County folksinger known for her sharp-witted lyrics, intricate melodies, and engaging performances.
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Oldest Bluegrass Band in the County
Base Camp Coffee Bar welcomes Last Man Standing for an early evening performance on June 19, 4 – 6 pm. Last Man Standing bills themselves as the “oldest bluegrass band in the county,” but promises up-tempo sets of traditional and original tunes, guaranteed to make audiences smile, chair dance and perhaps even sing along.
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Eddie Smith and Tommy Burroughs open the Woodwalk Concert Series on June 19 at 7 pm. These musicians light up the stage with their vocal harmonies, lightening speed mandolin, guitar and fiddle playing and fabulous original bluegrass/country tunes.