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Door County is home to a selection of performance venues and ensembles unmatched by any other small communities in America. Birch Creek brings jazz and classical music to a rustic barn, Midsummer’s Music Festival tours the peninsula for intimate concerts, and the Peninsula Music Festival awes visitors and locals alike at the Door Community Auditorium each august. Find schedules for these and many other venues here.

  • Miller Art Museum Presents Violinist Marina Gittins

    Marina Gittins presents a farewell concert to the Door County community on Friday, June 11, 7 pm, at the Miller Art Museum. Gittens, who has been studying violin for 11 years with the likes of Seattle’s Ron Patterson and Appleton’s Prof.

  • Chantelles Sing for Area Non-Profits

    The Chantelles, a female chorus from Green Bay will be performing on Saturday, June 12 at 7 pm at the Southern Door Community Auditorium. The concert is free; though a free will offering will take place.

  • Pianist Kate Boyd Performs June 8

    The Emerson Cultural Series will present pianist Kate Boyd on June 8 at 7:30 pm, performing at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County in Ephraim.

  • Birch Creek Announces 35th Anniversary Season

    Each year, approximately 200 students enroll in Birch Creek, a unique summer music school and concert venue. Over the span of eight weeks, they study and perform alongside some of the best musicians and educators in the country.

  • Rich Little At DCA Sunday

    On May 30, the Door Community Auditorium will host world-famous comedian Rich Little as he presents “Jimmy Stewart: A Humorous Look at His Life.” Though Little’s one-man show, over two dozen characters will take the stage as the “Man of a Thousand Voices” uses his talent of impersonation to present a lifetime of conversations between Hollywood icon Jimmy Stewart and his friends and costars, including Ronald Reagan, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, and Cary Grant.

  • An Array of Venues Host Midsummer’s Music Festival

    Each summer a group of world-class musicians from organizations such as the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Pro Arte Quartet, Aspen Music Festival, and artist faculty from major universities, join together in Door County to form a premiere chamber music ensemble at the Midsummer’s Music Festival.

  • Bjorklunden Mixes Past and Present

    Lawrence University’s Bjِrklunden will host a concert Saturday, July 10 at 7 pm, featuring chamber and solo works by Baroque master J.S. Bach and Mohammed Fairouz, one of the most sought after composers writing today.

  • Sevastopol Spring Concert Takes Place May 14

    The Sevastopol Junior High and High School Spring Concert will take place at St. Peter & Paul Church on Hwy 57 in Institute on May 14, 7 pm. Audience members will be treated to an hour and a half of music, and they can expect to hear a variety of musical styles, including acappella, Spanish, Renaissance, Popular, Romantic, and Jazz.

  • PMF Offers Online Auction on John Browning Records

    Four vinyl recordings of Grammy winning pianist John Browning have been gifted to the Peninsula Music Festival, and the festival is making them available to Browning’s fans via an online auction.

  • Bjorklunden Hosts Free Concerts

    Lawrence University’s Bjِrklunden will host two free concerts in May. On May 16 at 1:30 pm the members of the viola studio at Lawrence University will perform works studied during the Viola Retreat Weekend with Associate Professor Matthew Michelic and guest artist Christine Rutledge, viola faculty at the University of Iowa.

  • TAP Features The Talk of the Town

    The Talk of The Town, under the leadership of Kevin Van Ess, is one of the hottest Dixieland/Swing Style Jazz Groups north of New Orleans. The group, featuring clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, banjo, bass, piano, and drums makes a return appearance at Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) on May 22 at 7:30 pm.

  • A Tale of Two Venues

    The Pro Arte Quartet is slated to perform at the Ephraim Moravian Church on May 15, 7:30 pm, a mere two days after performing at the Joan and Sanford I.

  • Barbershop is Back at TAP!

    Fans of a cappella four-part harmonies and ringing chords will want to make tracks to Third Avenue Playhouse on Saturday, May 8 at 7:30 pm for an evening of barbershop music.

  • Institute Saloon Hosts Polka Fest

    It’s springtime, which means it’s time for the annual May Polka Fest to be held at the Institute Saloon Dance hall, located on Highway 57, three miles north of Sturgeon Bay.

  • Peninsula Players Hosts Spring Clean Day

    Spring is in the air and in a few short weeks the acting company and technicians of Peninsula Players Theatre will arrive from across the country to begin their 75th year presenting plays along the shores of Green Bay.

  • Peninsula Chamber Singers Perform Spring Concert

    The Chamber Singers have been rehearsing weekly since February in preparation for their annual Spring Concert, which will be presented as a gift to the community on Saturday, May 8, 7 pm, at the United Methodist Church, in Sturgeon Bay, and on Sunday, May 9, 3 pm, at the Door Community Auditorium in Fish Creek.

  • Direct from Carnegie Hall – The Pro Arte Quartet Performs in Door County

    Midsummer’s Music again presents the Pro Arte Quartet – this time bringing a program directly from a Carnegie Hall concert two days earlier. The world-renowned quartet will perform on Saturday, May 15 at the beautiful, historic, and acoustically superb Ephraim Moravian Church at 7:30 pm.

  • Younglove, Perry and August at Ladderhouse

    Upper Midwest Music Presents three rockin’ songwriters at the Ladder House in downtown Sturgeon Bay on May 7. Starting at 9 pm, this all-acoustic evening features Mojo Perry (Appleton), and Eli August (Madison), with local talent Rick Younglove (Fish Creek) headlining.

  • Sue Fink Performs at Glas

    Chicago-based singer/songwriter Sue Fink has been entertaining audiences since 2001 with her quirky tales of love gone awry. On Thursday, May 27, Fink will perform her first Door County show at Glas, the green coffeehouse, 67 E.

  • Open Mic at Friendship Friday

    On Friday, May 7 from 8 – 10 pm at the coffee house within Prince of Peace church at the corner of 18th and Michigan, musicians Rick Gordon, Mick Maloney, and Troy Therrien will perform and host an open mic as part of the Family Centers’ Friendship Fridays.