Category: Performance
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.
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Door County Live Music: Primavera Strings Perform at Joe Jo’s
Door County’s musical community was recently enriched by the formation of another group – Primavera Strings, a string trio with Beth Chafey-Hon (violin), Lynn Gudmundsen (violin), and Hans Christian (cello).
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Green Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra Searches for Talented Students
The Green Bay Symphony Youth Orchestras will hold auditions for string, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments on Sunday, March 22 and Sunday, March 29.
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Door County Entertainment: Invest in ‘50s Gold with Daddy D!
Grab your steady, fire up the bent eight and let’s rock around the clock! If you know what that means, then you know you can’t go wrong with music from the ‘50s.
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Door County Entertainment: Peninsula Players Announce 2009 Season
Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, is pleased to announce its 74th season running June 16 through October 18.
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Door County Performance: DCA Announces Second Eli Mattson Concert
The Door Community Auditorium (DCA) is announcing the addition of a second Eli Mattson on May 1 at 8 pm.
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Door County Performance: Fireside Coffeehouse Concert Series Presents Story Man Lloyd Michalsen
Storytelling is as old as mankind. With verve, drama, humor, and sometimes more than a little fire and brimstone, the storyteller taught moral lessons, entertained, and vocally recorded history.
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Door County Performance: Lawrence Bass Ensemble Performs at Bjِrklunden
Lawrence University’s Bjِrklunden will host a free concert Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 1:30 pm. The Lawrence University Bass Ensemble presents a concert of Classical and Jazz works arranged for the novel instrumentation of 8 double basses.
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Door County Entertainment: Make Time for Playtime Jazz
Wisconsin-area contemporary jazz group, Playtime, artfully blends smooth jazz, R&B and more. Their widely ranging repertoire will be on display during their appearance at Third Avenue Playhouse on Saturday, March 7 at 7:30 pm.
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Door County Entertainment: Pianist Fred Moyer Performs for Final February Fest Concert
Pianist Fred Moyer will finish the Peninsula Music Festival’s 2009 February Fest with a recital on Sunday, February 22 at Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church in Ellison Bay.
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Door County Outpost Gallery & Cafe Presents Claudia Schmidt in Concert
On, Friday, February 27 at 7:30 pm Claudia Schmidt will take the stage at the Door County Outpost. A Michigan native, Schmidt has covered a lot of musical ground, beginning with a stirring rendition of “Tammy” at age 4 through 32 years as a touring professional.
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Door County Entertainment: Sue Raye Hughes and Mary Bell To Give Recital
Sue Raye Hughes, piano, and Mary Bell, flute, will be presenting a recital to raise money to buy diapers for Northern Door Children’s Center. The recital will be held at 2 pm on Sunday, March 1 at Sister Bay Moravian Church.
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Door County Entertainment: Rock Group Tabakin at Ladder House
On Friday, March 6 at 10 pm, Tabakin will take the stage at the Ladder House Music Room as part of it’s monthly late night rock shows. Characterized as pure, raw, grimy and fresh, Tabakin is the experimental hip-hop force conquering Chicago.
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Door County Entertainment: “Art of Music” Winter Concert Series Presents Greg Trooper
On Friday, March 6 at 7:30 pm, the Ladder House Music Room continues the “Art of Music” Winter Concert Series with Greg Trooper for an evening of folk, blues and country music.
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Door County Entertainment: “I Hate Hamlet” Performed on Washington Island
I Hate Hamlet, the winter 2009 production of Island Players, will be presented on Washington Island on the weekend of February 20 – 22.
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Door County Entertainment: Birch Creek’s Juniper Hall Transformed
For two weeks, Juniper Hall at Birch Creek Music Performance Center will be home to Isadoora Theatre Company’s musical production “She Loves Me,” which opened Thursday, February 12 and will continue through Feb.
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Door County Performances: TAP Fights the Winter Blues and Brings on “A Little Summertime”
Third Avenue Playhouse will host Lost Mothra and Copper Box in the month of February, helping stave off the winter blues.
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Door County Performance: The Rose Ensemble Kicks Off the February Fest!
The Peninsula Music Festival’s February Fest will open on Sunday, February 8 with the popular vocal consort, The Rose Ensemble. The 3 pm concert will be held at the Peninsula School of Art.
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Peninsula Chamber Singers Welcomes Singers for Spring
The Peninsula Chamber Singers would like to welcome singers from Northeast Wisconsin to rehearse and perform with Artistic Director Merle Colburn. With performances twice a year, the chorus will begin rehearsing for the spring concert on Monday February 23 at the Sturgeon Bay United Methodist Church (UMC).
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Door County Performance: Art of Music at The Ladder House
The Ladder House Music Room in Sturgeon Bay will come alive with the “Art of Music” Winter Concert Series. On Friday, February 6 at 7:30 pm, Karen Savoca with special guest Pete Heitzman will return to Door County to perform for the “Art of Music” Winter Concert Series.
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Door County Live Music: Binky Tunny and Farmland Chokehold Take the Stage
On Friday, February 6 at 10 pm, the tone at The Ladder House will change when Binky Tunny and the Farmland Chokehold perform. Binky’s been on a quest since 1999 to put together the best super-group she could find – one that could deal with her “delicate” ego.