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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.

  • Len Villano

    Highland Road Plays Tribute to American Roots Music

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    It is a rainy Wednesday night in October at Tad Gilster’s home and one by one, the members of Fish Creek’s only bluegrass band show up, ready to rehearse for that Friday’s show at The Cookery. Gilster’s guitar is in his lap, having just shown me the difference between flatpicking and fingerpicking. We’ve been talking […]

  • Hot Zydeco Swamp at TAP

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    Copper Box returns to Third Avenue Playhouse celebrating the release of its latest CD, After the Rain, and playing favorites old and new on Nov. 29 at 7:30 pm.

  • Grammy Nominee to Perform At White Gull

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    Grammy nominated singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon returns to Fish Creek to open the 31st season of winter folk concerts at the White Gull Inn on Wednesday, Nov.

  • Copper Box on the Main Stage

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    Music on the Main Stage at Third Avenue Playhouse presents Copper Box in concert on Nov. 29 at 7:30 pm. Wisconsin Blues Society describes Copper Box as “…one of the favorites of the Fox Valley Blues Festival 2004.

  • Pop, Rock, Blues, Country

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    In the mid-2000s, Sturgeon Bay resident Amy Stanelle knew she wanted to lend her smooth, energetic vocals to a band, some way and some how. Raising four teenagers at the time, she wasn’t quite sure how it would happen.

  • Final Day for Dark Songs

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    Tonight, The Holiday Music Motel will host the final night of its two-day Dark Songs 2014 costume party celebrating the culmination of a week’s worth of collaborative songwriting among its 40 guest musicians.

  • Dahl & Russell at Gibraltar Town Hall

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    On Nov. 6, two singer-songwriters will team up for a concert at Gibraltar Town Hall. This upcoming performance will feature local folkie Katie Dahl (joined by bass player Rich Higdon) as well as California-based Claudia Russell (joined by her mandolin-playing sidekick, Bruce Kaplan).

  • Little Songwriting Monsters

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    For the sixth straight year, The Holiday Music Motel will bring together musicians from all walks of life to collaborate in creating ghoulish, dark and strange tunes in honor of Halloween.

  • Play It Forward

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    For the second year in a row, Door County musicians, bands and poets will come together to carry on the spirit of the late Bo Johnson through the “Play It Forward” benefit concert on Oct.

  • Indie-Folk Family at Southern Door Community Auditorium

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    Southern Door Community Auditorium presents the Hunt Family on Oct. 24 at 7 pm. The Hunts is an indie-folk band from the southlands of Chesapeake, Virginia.

  • Tambourine Lounge Welcomes Delaney Davidson and Uno Lady

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    A one-man band and a one-woman band will perform a house concert at The Tambourine Lounge at Holiday Music Motel on Oct. 22 at 7 pm. Known worldwide as one of the premier one-man bands, Delaney Davidson is more like a one-man machine, fiercely independent and talented in all aspects of his artistry.

  • Living River Quartet Performs at First Baptist

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    The Living River Quartet will perform at First Baptist Church of Sister Bay on Oct. 19 at 6 pm. Organized in 1987, they have been presenting concerts throughout the Midwest.

  • Play It Forward to Benefit Scandia Village

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    On Oct. 26 at 2 pm, some of Door County’s most popular musicians will gather to raise funds for the Scandia Village Partners in Compassion campaign with the second annual “Play It Forward” benefit concert at Door Community Auditorium.

  • Fresh Blood for Dark Songs

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    For this year’s Dark Songs, hosted by The Holiday Music Motel, 11 “fresh blood” additions will join the veteran ranks of this annual songwriting event.

  • Tunes Aplenty

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    Musicians from all across the state will descend on Sister Bay’s 69th annual Fall Festival to conduct a live soundtrack during what is sure to be a weekend of fun and shenanigans.

  • Music As A Necessity of Life

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    I feel the need to start this off by saying in all my years on earth, in all the different places I’ve lived and all the different people I’ve met and talked to, I had never heard of Moravians or the Moravian Church until moving to Door County.

  • Worship, Gospel and A Cappella Style

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    The Living River Quartet will perform at First Baptist Church of Sister Bay on Oct. 19 at 6 pm. Organized in 1987, they have been presenting concerts throughout the Midwest.

  • Ambassadors of A Cappella

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    In 1962, five Brooklyn teenagers – four transplants from the South and one from Detroit – found that their voices meshed. Fifty-two years later, the Persuasions continue to amaze audiences with their vocal prowess, which they bring to the Door Community Auditorium for Ministry Door County Medical Center’s 20th annual Celebration of Community on Oct.

  • Tribute to Dave Brubeck at DCA

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    On Oct. 12, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) will host the dynamic jazz ensemble the Brubeck Brothers Quartet (BBQ) as they present their Tribute to Dave Brubeck.

  • Same Guy With a New Band

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    Sammy BoDean is dead. Long live Sam Llanas! The co-founder of the Waukesha-born BoDeans is coming to Door County on Saturday, Sept. 27 with his “new” band (they’ve been together for three years, since Llanas left the BoDeans in 2011) to perform at Pumpkinmania at the Lodge at Leathem Smith in Sturgeon Bay, and he hopes you come to hear him.