Category: Performance

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Four cellos that play not only classical music, but ragtime and jazz? For anyone that thinks it is not possible, the Rastrelli Cello Quartet will be in Sturgeon Bay on May 7 to prove them wrong.

Lawrence University’s Bjِrklunden will host a number of free concerts, featuring students, faculty and guest artists, in the upcoming weeks. On Thursday, May 6, 4:30 pm, Patrice Michaels’ voice studio and the Lawrence University Symphony Orchestra’s first violins will perform.

The Special Consensus, a four-person acoustic bluegrass band, will perform at the White Gull Inn in Fish Creek on Wednesday, April 28. Tickets for the 8 pm concert, the fifth and last scheduled at the inn this winter, are $15.

As part of National Poetry Month, Paul McComas will deliver his overview of poetry entitled, “Poetry in (E)motion: The Many Moods of Verse” at Third Avenue Playhouse on Sunday, April 25 at 2 pm.

pat mAcdonald + melaniejane (AKA Purgatory Hill) will record four albums of material in front of a live audience at the Holiday Music Motel on April 22, 23 and 24 from 6 – 10 pm.