Category: Performance

Peninsula Chamber Singers, the well-known Door County choral group featuring local talent, have announced their 2009 fall rehearsal and concert schedule.

The Holiday Music Motel concludes their Summer Concert Series with the music of Sigmund Snopek III and Colin O’Brien. The two artists will be performing on the Motel lawn from 5 – 7 pm on Saturday, September 19 and Sunday, September 20, respectively.

Internationally touring ballad singer Judy Cook will provide the entertainment when at the Door County Maritime Museum “Sea Music at Sunset,” a benefit cruise earmarked for the museum’s 2009 Anchor Appeal Campaign.

“Celebration of Community,” a free concert sponsored by Door County Memorial Hospital (DCMH) and featuring three international touring musicians, is being held on Saturday, September 19 at 8 pm at Fish Creek’s Door Community Auditorium.

Over the last two years, local bluegrass band Highland Road has taken Door County audiences by storm, playing everywhere from the wine bar of the new Cookery restaurant to a sold-out coffeehouse concert at the Door Community Auditorium.

(Left to right) Roat (played by Jay Whittaker) smooth-talks his way into the home of Suzy (played by Linda Fortunato), an unsuspecting blind woman in the Peninsula Players current show, Wait Until Dark.

Fish Creek’s Peninsula Players Theatre has received a matching grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board (WAB) in the amount of $22,583 – an increase of 17 percent from what was awarded to the theater last year through the WAB’s Creation & Presentation program.

Armed with nothing but a stool, a microphone, and a can of Diet Pepsi, Paula Poundstone’s ability to create on the spot humor has become the stuff of legend.

The Door Community Auditorium in Fish Creek will be alive with the music of the ’50s and ’60s on Saturday, September 12 at 7 pm, when the Doo-Wop Daddies and other special guests perform in “A Night to Remember.

American Folklore Theatre (AFT) takes aim for hilarity with Guys & Does, the world premiere deer hunting musical that opens Friday, September 4 at the Ephraim Village Hall.

Chicago is a city known for its blues as well as its bluegrass. In the bluegrass history books, it was a pivotal stop along the road to success for the Monroe Brothers and, in more current times, noteworthy as home base for the long popular Special Consensus.

The folk/Celtic duo of February Sky, featuring Susan Urban and Phil Cooper, will open the 2009 Unitarian Universalist Emerson Performance Series on Saturday, September 19 at 7:30 pm.

Studio 330, Hans Christian’s new recording studio, and Gallery Jenwah is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a live concert by LOVEdada on Thursday, September 17 at 7:30 pm.

Wisconsin singer/songwriter Dana Erlandson is bringing his genre of acoustic Americana and folk rock music to Door County for the Family Centers of Door County Belgian Kermiss celebration.

Proving that music can indeed bridge the gap between young and old, a little girl dances to the sounds of Louisiana blues master Tab Benoit, who played at the Peg Egan Performing Arts Center in Egg Harbor on Sunday, July 12.

As a young man in the late 19th century, Billy Sunday was a professional baseball player with the Chicago White Stockings, the Pittsburgh Allegheneys, and the Philadelphia Pennants.

When the lights go out, the terror begins. Peninsula Players presents Fredrick Knott’s classic thriller, “Wait Until Dark,” through September 6. In this photo, Suzy and her neighbor Gloria hide in their dark apartment while danger lurks outside.

The Santa Cruz River Band takes the stage at the Peg Egan Performing Arts Center in Egg Harbor on Sunday, August 30 at 7 pm.
The Santa Cruz River Band is a beloved musical group from Tucson, Arizona.

Guitarist George Sawyn comes to The Door Jam’s stage for a one-man concert on Saturday, September 5 at 7 pm.
Sawyn, a Chicago musician who is quickly making a name for himself on the Door County music scene, brings a unique and versatile style to his performances.