Category: Live Music

Lost Moth Gallery presents an evening of original music by Robin and Jenny Bienemann on March 14 from 7 to 9 pm. The Bienemanns are singer/songwriter/guitarists from the Chicago area, each with their own solo style and recordings; they also perform together as a duo and in their band the Significant Others.

My new favorite slab o’ vinyl features a greasy slab o’ bacon on the cover, hinting at the tasty treats inside. But I have to admit the first time I saw the cover, I thought the bacon was a turd, which suggests something else entirely.

Singer, comic, and multi-instrument maestro Dan Riley brings limitless laughs (and talent) to the stage at every turn and his latest production is no exception.

The 2014 Door County Fair Jingle Contest will take place April 5 from 9:30 am –12 pm at the Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor. Reservations and prior signup is not required.

Sweet, melancholy, with a little mountain folk – that’s the sound of Rita Hosking’s gorgeous tunes. The singer-songwriter will perform at The White Gull Inn on March 12 with her banjo-playing husband Sean Feder.

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Rita Hosking will be featured in concert at the White Gull Inn on March 12. She’ll perform as a duo with her husband Sean Feder on Dobro and banjo.

National touring artist Peter Mulvey will take the stage at Caffé Tlazo in Algoma on Feb. 28 at 7:30 pm as part of The Healing Project of Door County.

When asked where they’re from, Ruby James (aka Kitty CoopDeville) doesn’t provide a city, a state or even a country. With her charmingly coy and playful demeanor she simply replies, “The Holiday Music Motel!” While James was not born and raised in Sturgeon Bay, the musical “home” and creative center she did find there was an essential part of a journey that led to the formation of her latest project – WIFEE and the HUZzBAND, with singer/saxophonist extraordinaire Stephen Cooper.

Small Forest takes the stage at the UU Fellowship on March 1 at 7 pm to perform their original progressive folk/pop. With a unique sound that stretches the traditional folk boundaries, they invite the audience into their hearts offering songs like musical story poems and musical medicine for the soul.

Door County singer/songwriter Bill Gonnsen recently submitted two ‘poems’ to the Peninsula Pulse – “Quiet Time in Door County” and “The First Time.” “They are also the lyrics of two songs by the same name,” he added in his email.

There was a good ol’ ruckus and a packed house at Czarnuska Soup Bar on Jan. 31. Punk bands Tenement from Appleton and Holy Shit (who also go by Holy Schmidt when need be) played behind – and on – the soup counter to a crowd of 35.

Door Community Auditorium will offer an escape from the cold with a concert of foot-tapping music from the Door County Opry. On Feb. 16 at 2 pm on the main stage, the Door County Cowboy Church will present an afternoon of foot-tapping country, gospel, and bluegrass music in the style of an historic opry.

Goldwing Express will deliver an appealing mix of heart-felt melodies backed with hard-driving acoustics at Prince of Peace Church in Sturgeon Bay on Feb.

Cavern Beat, one of America’s most distinctive Beatles tribute bands, will take the stage at the Southern Door Community Auditorium on Feb. 22 at 7 pm.

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Nora Jane Struthers and her band the Party Line will be featured in concert at the White Gull Inn in Fish Creek on Feb.

Michael Lee Ammons and the Water Street Hot Shots will present a concert of blues, rags, and string band music in the Door Community Auditorium Fireside Lobby on Feb.

Musician Ruby James swore off dating when she spur-of-the-moment accepted a summer bartending job at Gordon Lodge in 2012. “I was going to go home to LA, I’d been running away from it my whole life,” she recalls.

Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) and Ministry Door County Medical Center (MDCMC) are hosting the “Women with Spirit” concert on Feb. 7 at 7:30 pm with musicians Victoria Vox, Dorothy Scott, Sue Demel and Katie Dahl.

I officially hit the peak of my mid-winter depression. I’m so crabby. I’m so cold. A combination that twisted my spine in a painful mess of stress and tension that had a chiropractor cracking away.

Sturgeon Bay may not have a year-round intimate jazz club, but they will for one night at The Holiday Music Motel in downtown Sturgeon Bay. Back for their third appearance at The Holiday, on Jan. 31 at 7 pm the Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble returns to inundate listeners with their own unique take on vintage hot swing and gypsy jazz performing both originals and long-time classics.