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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Nationally acclaimed singer/songwriter Anne Hills is coming to the Town Hall Bakery in Jacksonport on July 18. As a singer, actress, writer, and musician, Hills has continuously built a reputation of merit.
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“Born Yesterday” Next on Players Stage
Peninsula Players Theatre performs Garson Kanin’s classic American comedy Born Yesterday through July 27. In this classic, Harry, an overbearing business tycoon, visits our nation’s capital to grease a few palms.
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Will Porter Takes the Stage at Peg Egan PAC
On Sunday, July 13 at 7 pm, one of Wisconsin’s best songwriters, Willy Porter, will take the stage at the Peg Egan PAC in Egg Harbor. It’s been a few miles across America, Canada, the UK and Europe since Willy Porter released his debut CD, The Trees Have Soul in 1990.
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Bravissima Gourmet Italian Dinner Series
Liberty Square, the popular new 14,000-square-foot dining, shopping, art and entertainment complex in Egg Harbor has announced that acclaimed San Francisco cabaret singer and versatile female vocalist Lauren Carley will appear at the facility for 21 performances this summer.
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“Art of Music” Continues at Ladder House
On Friday, July 18 at 7:30 pm the “Art of Music” Summer Concert Series at the Ladder House/Music Room will present two nationally acclaimed female songwriters – Anne Heaton and Ellis.
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Doorways theater program is now accepting registrations for the rest of its season. Through a variety of educational theater workshops, Doorways explores the power of creativity through developing original theatre.
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Two Benefits for Birch Creek Students
Birch Creek Music Performance Center’s volunteer organization, The Associates, have planned two fundraising events in July to benefit Birch Creek students.
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Bastille Day Celebration at Base Camp
In honor of the upcoming French celebration of Bastille Day in mid-July, Base Camp Coffee Bar at 10904 Highway 42 in Sister Bay will host two events beginning on Friday, July 11.
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Northwoods Nightcap, the critically-acclaimed late-night variety show from American Folklore Theatre, will premiere its third season on Friday, July 18 at 10 pm at the Peninsula State Park amphitheatre.
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On July 18, kids will have a chance to look behind the scenes of a professional theater at American Folklore Theatre’s Creative Kids Day in Peninsula State Park.
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Where Trinidad and Tobago Meet Door County: Birch Creek’s Percussion Session
“Have you ever heard the music of the steel pan? It’s something that goes right through your chest.” That’s how Kate Rericha, Director of Marketing, PR and Grants, describes the intensity of the sound coming from more than a dozen young students playing steel pan and other percussion instruments in a milking shed on a […]
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Claudia Russell and the Folk Unlimited Orchestra
Claudia Russell and her band, the Folk Unlimited Orchestra, will play three times around Door County as part of their Midwest Tour. In addition to the Jacksonport Town Hall Bakery Concert on Friday, June 27 at 7 pm, they will play at Washington Island’s Trueblood Performing Arts Center on Saturday, June 28 at 7:30 pm and then the Fish Creek Concert In the Park Series on Tuesday, July 1 at 2:30 pm.
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The Jacksonport Town Hall Bakery Concert series continues this summer with Berkely-based Claudia Russell and the Folk Unlimited Orchestra, as well as Chicago-based Al Rose.
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Laughter and emotion run high in Happy Daze (or the Short Happy Madness of Julian Thaddeus Springer), a two-act comedy by William Gleason.
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“Greetings!” Kicks Off Players’ 73rd Season
Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater, opens the season with Tom Dudzick’s festive comedy, Greetings! which runs through July 6.
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The Jacksonport Area Business Association is pleased to announce that the Birch Creek Ambassadors will have several performances at beautiful Lakeside Park in downtown Jacksonport this summer.
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Celebratory Concert and Party for Kuhn’s CD Release
On Saturday, June 28 at the Woodwalk Gallery, join Jeanne Kuhns and musicians Maury Smith, Hans Christian, Lynn Gudmundsen, Dan Mayhew, Eli Mattson, Adam Mackintosh and others for a celebration of the release of Kuhns’ new CD, Ghost Ranch.
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Maritime Friend’s 2008 Waterfront Concert Series
The annual concert series, presented by the Door County Maritime Museum & Lighthouse Preservation Society’s Maritime Friends organization, kicks off Sunday, June 29 and continues through July 27.
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Birch Creek’s volunteer organization, The Associates, invites you to an exclusive evening concert at Cajun Acres, a private country estate in the heart of Door County, on Sunday, July 13.
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Karen Mal and Buddy Mondlock will help celebrate the 4th of July weekend at the Door County Outpost in Egg Harbor on Saturday, July 5 at 7:30 pm.