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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Midsummer’s Music Festival Features the Classic Masters
Midsummer’s Music Festival will perform the fourth program of the festival, Classic Masters. This program features the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn, and Ludwig Van Beethoven.
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Gary Lane Returns with a “Nite to Remember”
Gary Van Vorous, known musically as Gary Lane, returns to the Door County Auditorium with his “Nite to Remember,” a doo-wop and rock show. This show also features a number of other artists including the Doo-Wop Daddies, Paul Lent, Junior Brantley of Las Vegas, and the headliner is recording artist Jimmy Clanton.
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Brian Groner Celebrates his 20th Season at Birch Creek
Birch Creek Music Performance Center welcomes back many of its seasoned faculty members for their Symphony Orchestra concerts. Birch Creek Symphony Conductor Brian Groner, celebrating his 20th season, reflects, “The faculty’s professionalism, and the elevated level of commitment to the art of music making, is so inspiring to the students attending as well as to the faculty.
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Arrival from Sweden brings ABBA to the DCA
Swedish pop sensation ABBA took the music world by storm in the 1970s with hits like “Dancing Queen” and “Mamma Mia,” selling 500 million records in all.
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Birch Creek Legend to Retire: O’Connor’s Career is Pantastic!
Imagine realizing your true passion early in your career, striving to live your dream and finding avenues and opportunities along the way to help you fulfill that dream, over time, instilling your dream in the minds of people who become new allies and help move your now shared dream to reality.
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Midsummer’s Music Festival Continues with the Music of German Romantics
Midsummer’s Music Festival will perform the third program of the festival, German Romantics. This program features the music of Robert Kahn (1865-1951), Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907), and Johannes Brahms (1833-1897).
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Ryan Anthony and Gary Beard in Concert at Shepherd of the Bay
Trumpeter Ryan Anthony and organist/pianist Gary Beard are making their second Door County appearance in concert at Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church on June 17 at 7 pm.
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Birch Creek Hosts Screening of “Jazz at Birch Creek”
Birch Creek will host an encore screening of Jazz at Birch Creek, a program of Wisconsin Public Television (WPT) on June 21 at 7:30 pm in the Dutton Concert Barn at Birch Creek.
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Midsummer’s Music Festival Celebrates “The Spirit of Summer”
Midsummer’s Music Festival is underway and begins its second concert program, The Spirit of Summer. Audiences have four different opportunities to enjoy classical chamber music up close and personal.
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Birch Creek Seeks Budding Musicians
Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor has provided intensive instruction to promising young musicians, typically age 14 – 18, since 1976.
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Wings of a Hero Concert at Immanuel Lutheran Church
Immanuel Lutheran Church Youth are hosting a concert by Wings of a Hero, a young adult Christian band. They will perform at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Baileys Harbor on June 15 at 7 pm.
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Door County String Academy Announces Summer Offerings
The Door County String Academy (DCSA) is now accepting enrollment for its 2012 Summer Programs.
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Midsummer’s Music Festival Opens with “Fantasy and Magic”
Midsummer’s Music Festival is ready for the 22nd opening night event titled Fantasy and Magic. Opening night will be held at the Birch Creek Performing Arts Center in Egg Harbor at 7 pm on June 8.
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It’s a Grand Night for Singing
Three accomplished singers from Chicago Lyric Opera will perform at Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church over Memorial Day weekend. Soprano Desirée Hassler, mezzo-soprano Pamela Williams and baritone Ricardo Sepْlveda will join pianist Judy Jackson to present “It’s a Grand Night for Singing.”
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Fourth Annual Sing-Along “Gone with the Wind” at Woodwalk Gallery Theater
Woodwalk Gallery Theater will host their fourth annual Sing-Along “Gone with the Wind.” Ben Larson and Dan Mahew of Ben There/Dan That will lead the audience in singing Beatles classics (lyrics provided).
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Registration Is Open for DCA’s Kaleidoscope Day Camp
Registration is now open for Door Community Auditorium’s (DCA) Kaleidoscope Day Camp. Kids with an interest in performing will have a chance to experience theater in a whole new way at this day camp.
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Birch Creek Introduces New Dance Series
Birch Creek is entering their 37th season and is introducing a new dance series scheduled on various concert nights. The Percussion Steel Band concert “Fire Down Below,” on July 14 will kick off the dance series.
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Birch Creek Associates’ Scheduled Events
Birch Creek’s 37th concert season is just around the corner and their volunteer team, The Associates, has scheduled its first meeting of the season for May 16 at 9:30 am.
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Spring Clean Day at Peninsula Players Theatre
Soon the acting company and technicians of Peninsula Players Theatre will arrive from across the country to begin their 77th year presenting plays along Door County’s scenic shore.
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Bjِrklunden Hosts LOVE: Lawrence’s Own Viola Ensemble!
Lawrence University’s Bjِrklunden will host a concert on May 20 at 1:30 pm. Members of the Lawrence University viola studio will perform works for solo viola, viola and piano, and works for multiple violas as LOVE: Lawrence’s Own Viola Ensemble! Professor Matthew Michelic and guest artist Frank Babbitt of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra present this concert following a weekend of rehearsals and classes focused on all things viola.