Category: Entertainment
Door County entertainment news from the staff of the Peninsula Pulse and Door County Living. Find the latest details on concerts, performing arts, theater, and much more from the Door County scene.
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The mystique that Door County carries is difficult to define, but it gets inside you and doesn’t let go. It’s part winding, backcountry roads and haunting waters, part fieldstone rock walls and hazy morning light. Once people visit the county, like a boomerang, they return again and again, feeling that magical pull back to revisit […]
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The week before Eli Mattson decided to audition for America’s Got Talent, he applied for a cashiering job at Family Video. He has always been interested in film, and besides, the advertisement said that they were hiring “friendly and talented people.” He didn’t get the job. “Maybe I should have been discouraged,” he says, but […]
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Lost Mothra to Perform at Woodwalk Gallery
Jeanne Kuhns brings her versatile band, Lost Mothra, to the Woodwalk Gallery stage on Friday, July 3 at 7 pm.
Lost Mothra is made up of Kuhns, a fixture on the Door County music scene, Chicago’s George Sawyn and Minneapolis’s Jeff Crooks on guitar, fiddle by Lynn Gudmundsen, and bass player Patrick Palmer. -
Singer/songwriter Eli Mattson returns to Door County this September as part of a concert tour sponsored by Cellcom. Mattson will appear at Third Avenue Playhouse on Friday, September 25 at 7:30 pm.
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“The Day The Music Died” Tribute on Stage at DCA
Mark Shurilla and The Greatest Hits will present “The Day the Music Died” at the Door Community Auditorium on Saturday, July 4 at 8 pm.
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Violinist and Pianist to Play at Hope United Church
Violinist Marina Gittins and Pianist David Beck will present an evening of Corelli, Bach, Beethoven, and Bruch on Friday, June 26 at 7 pm at the Hope United Church of Christ in Sturgeon Bay.
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Evenings in Ephraim Summer Concert Series Announced
Ephraim welcomes the third season of its “Evenings in Ephraim” summer promotional series, expanding to 10 Monday nights, June 22 through August 24.
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DCMM Announces Summer Concert Series
The sound of music returns to the waterfront at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay on Sunday, June 28, with the first of six concerts in an annual series.
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Pianist Lorie Line to Perform at DCA
Entertainer/pianist Lorie Line will perform at the Door Community Auditorium on Saturday, June 27 at 7:30 pm. Line is bringing her show even closer to her fans as this summer she will perform in smaller venues all around the Midwest.
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Door County Outpost Increases Music Offerings in 2009
The Door County Outpost Gallery and Café enters the 2009 summer season with a number of exciting changes. British transplant Carl Hruza and his wife Susan, a native of Green Bay, relocated their Green Lake, Wisconsin art gallery business to the Outpost at the end of last season, re-opening the main building as Door County Outpost Gallery and Café.
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Door County Bluegrass Camp Announces Second Annual Session
The second-annual Door County Bluegrass Camp will kick off with an Instructor Concert at the Third Avenue Playhouse on August 1, and the camp, set at Wagon Trail Resort, is slated for August 2 through August 7.
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Symphony Concerts Introduce Birch Creek’s 2009 Season
An all-Dvorak program on Friday, June 26 and Saturday, June 27 will finish the Birch Creek Symphony Orchestra’s first week of performances in the Dutton Concert Barn, led by conductor Brian Groner.
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“Art of Music” Summer Concert Series Presents Bill Camplin
National touring artist Bill Camplin will take the stage at the Door County Outpost on Thursday, July 2 at 7 pm.
Co-owner of the popular folk venue “Cafe Carpe” in Fort Atkinson, Camplin entertains with the clarity of his penetrating mind, guitar mastery, and quicksilver voice. -
Peg Egan PAC a Gift to Egg Harbor Community
Located in Egg Harbor’s Eames Cherry View Park, the Peg Egan Performing Arts Center features music and musicians in a family-friendly setting.
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Culture Club – Peninsula Arts and Humanities Alliance
Since 1935, Peninsula Players has been entertaining and educating Door County audiences by staging slices of life on its stage. For several decades, comedies, musicals, original works, mysteries and dramas have played before generations of theatergoers.
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The Clearing Announces 2009 Workshop Program Catalog
The Clearing Folk School in Ellison Bay has recently announced the publication of its 2009 Workshop Program catalog. These half-day, one, two and three-day classes begin in July and run through early November.
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Historic Noble House Museum Open for Season
The historic Alexander Noble House Museum is now open for the 2009 season. Hours are Tuesday through Sunday, noon – 5 pm, through October 18.
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Linden Centre Accepting Reservations for “Adventures in a Chinese Kitchen” Tour
“Have you eaten yet?” In China, this is one of the most common and respected greetings. Jeanee and Brian Linden, owners of the Linden Centre in Yunnan Province, China, and Linden Gallery in Ellison Bay invite guests to share in a 12-day Chinese epicurean adventure tour.
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Article posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:35pm
To Decant Or Not?
There are basically two reasons for decanting a bottle of wine. To separate the wine from sediment is one and the other is to expose the wine to the process of oxidation.
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Article posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:34pm
Question: What country, outside of China, has the largest ethnic Chinese population as a percentage of total population?
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