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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.

  • Birch Creek Announces 2016 Concert Schedule

    Tickets for Birch Creek Music Performance Center’s 2016 summer concert season are now available for purchase at birchcreek.org. The Percussion & Steel Band Session will showcase performances by students and faculty from June 23-25 and June 29-July 2, under Program Director Dan Moore, Director of Percussion at The University of Iowa. Birch Creek’s Percussion performances […]

  • TAP Announces 2016 Summer/Fall Season

    Third Avenue Playhouse has announced its 2016 summer/fall season. From June 30 – July 23, TAP brings Isaac’s Eye to the stage, directed by Robert Boles. This amazingly creative new work playfully presents the 17th Century world of Isaac Newton in a completely contemporary and wildly theatrical setting. A battle between two great intellects (with […]

  • Drew Brhel Selected as TAP’s 2016 Artist-In-Residence

    Third Avenue Playhouse has announced its 2016 artist-in-residence Drew Brhel. He proudly continues his relationship with Third Avenue Playhouse, appearing this summer in three productions – Isaac’s Eye, Madame Sherry, and The Gin Game. Other roles at TAP include Matt Friedman in Talley’s Folly, Bellomy in The Fantasticks (both summer of 2014) and Frank in […]

  • Agatha Christie, “The Full Monty” Highlight Pen Players 2016 Season

    Tickets to Peninsula Players Theatre’s 81st season are now on sale. America’s oldest professional resident summer theater has tickets available for a variety of engaging shows – including a gentle new comedy, a classic whodunit, a lively pop-musical, an engrossing new drama and a fast-paced comic thriller. Peninsula Players opens its 81st season on June […]

  • Peninsula Music Festival Hosts Frank Almond for March 11 Benefit Concert

    Peninsula Music Festival will hold a one-time-only benefit concert for the organization on Friday, March 11 at 7:30 pm featuring Frank Almond on violin and Andrew Armstrong on piano. Frank Almond, concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and former PMF concertmaster, will make a rare Door County appearance. Joined by audience favorite Andrew Armstrong, this […]

  • Peninsula Singers Announces 37th Season

    The Peninsula Singers Artistic Director Merle Colburn invites new and veteran singers to the group’s spring rehearsals every Monday evening from 7 – 9 pm at the Sturgeon Bay United Methodist Church, Michigan Street at 9th Avenue. The spring concerts will be held on Mother’s Day weekend, May 7 and 8. Music for the Singers’ […]

  • Lori Meyer

    Peninsula Music Festival Holds Final Feb Fest Concert

    The final concert in the 2016 February Fest Season of the Peninsula Music Festival (PMF) will conclude with music inspired by the book The Light Keeper’s Legacy by Kathleen Ernst. The 2 pm concert on Feb. 27 will be held at Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church in Ellison Bay. This concert is a joint […]

  • Eric Simonson to Lead Björklunden Seminar in June 2016

    From June 12 – 17, Lawrence University’s Björklunden is offering the seminar “The Grand Synthesis” with Eric Simonson, to be held in conjunction with the Door Kinetic Arts Festival. Since Aeschylus, artists have attempted the ideal of unifying all arts into one. Composer Richard Wagner articulated this concept in his early 19th-century essays, using the […]

  • Rogue Theater Brings “Under Milk Wood” to UUF

    Rogue Theater’s latest production, Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, returns to the stage for one powerful performance held at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim on Feb. 20 at 1 pm. Internationally acclaimed for its eccentricity and adored for its lovelorn lyricism, the play follows the comings and goings of the inhabitants over 24 […]

  • Björklunden Introduces Inaugural Door Kinetic Arts Festival

    Oscar-winning Lombardi playwright Eric Simonson is bringing some major creative talent to Björklunden for the inaugural Door Kinetic Arts Festival in June. The week-long festival will provide Door County residents and visitors a peek at the creative process through two staged readings, a dance presentation and the premiere of a commissioned film by Campbell Scott, […]

  • Oboe, Viola and Piano Featured in Feb. 20 PMF Concert

    Peninsula Music Festival’s (PMF) February Fest continues Feb. 20 when PMF principal oboe Eric Olson and violist Ellen Olson arrive from Florida to experience winter in Door County. They will be joined by PMF pianist Judith Jackson. The 2 pm concert will take place at Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church in Ellison Bay. The […]

  • Jazz, Printmaking, World Languages & More Weekend Plans

    Jazz, printmaking and world languages highlight the upcoming weekend on the Door Peninsula. Check out our top picks for the weekend ahead! Friday, February 19 Janet Planet Jazz Janet Planet, hailed as the “voice of the New Jazz Culture,” will take the stage at Door County Fire Company at 7 pm on Friday night as […]

  • More Play Readings Scheduled as Part of The Play’s the Thing

    Peninsula Players Theatre presented a reading of The Who & The What by Ayad Akhtar, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, at Björklunden on Feb. 1 to an audience of more than 140 people. This play reading was produced with support from and in conjunction with Door County Reads and its exploration of Akhtar’s novel American Dervish. […]

  • PMF’s February Fest Begins Feb. 13 at Shepherd of the Bay

    All the way from Singapore and Houston, Igor Yuzefovich, concertmaster of Peninsula Music Festival (PMF) and the Singapore Symphony, and Joan DerHovsepian, principal viola of PMF and associate principal of the Houston Symphony, will present the first concert of the 2016 February Fest. The 2 pm concert will take place at Shepherd of the Bay […]

  • Midsummer’s Music Festival Announces 2016 Season Concerts

    Door County’s Midsummer’s Music Festival is implementing exciting innovations for its 2016 season, with an emphasis on radically appealing concerts. For the first time in its 26-year history, Midsummer’s will create a sense of a home-base in 2016. The organization selected Björklunden in Baileys Harbor for eight key concerts. Midsummer’s Executive Director Mark Kunstman said, […]

  • Masters of the Fiddle Return to DCA Feb. 14

    Several years ago I heard Natalie MacMaster play her fiddle at the Door Community Auditorium (DCA), performing in a style that combines French, Celtic, bluegrass and Cajun music. She spoke to the audience about her childhood in Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton, and the ceilidhs (KAY-lees) her family enjoyed, Gaelic social gatherings featuring fiddle music and […]

  • Fire & Ice, Short Film Fest & More Weekend Plans

    Sturgeon Bay will take its turn hosting a winter festival this weekend as they celebrate their annual Fire & Ice Festival. Staying up north this weekend? Between Newport State Park’s winter programs and the Door County Short Film Fest, you’re sure to find something that suits your fancy during Valentine’s Day weekend. Friday, February 12 […]

  • Husband-and-Wife Fiddlers at DCA on Valentine’s Day

    On Feb. 14, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) will present “Masters of the Fiddle,” a high-energy concert of fiddle music by Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy. MacMaster and Leahy are two of the world’s most celebrated fiddlers – and they just happen to be married to each other. At DCA, MacMaster and Leahy will perform the […]

  • Ali Paris: Qanun Musician Makes Tour Stop in Sturgeon Bay

    Life was not easy for a boy growing up in Ramallah, engulfed by the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Young Ali Amr, rather than playing outside with other children, was often confined to his home with no recourse for occupying himself other than practicing his qanun, the sounds of battle providing a percussive background to the music […]

  • Upcoming Lawrence University Concerts to Feature Saxophone and Music Educators

    Lawrence University’s Björklunden will host a joint concert on Feb. 11 at 4:30 pm. The Lawrence University Saxophone Studio will present a program filled with little-known music for saxophone from the 1920s and 1930s. The program will include music from classical compositions to show tunes and everything in between. Join the brothers of the Gamma […]