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Community Event: The Holiday Music Motel presents Jackson Browne in concert to benefit The Tambourine Collaboratory

June 30, 2014 by Backstage Leave a Comment

jackson-postJackson Browne defined the term “singer/songwriter.” The Eagles credit him with teaching them how to write songs. Bruce Springsteen, in his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech, said, “I always thought that our job here on earth and the way we regain our divinity is by reconstructing love out of the broken pieces that we’ve been given. Jackson Browne’s work has always been the sound of that reconstruction.” Fittingly, he first came to Door County to help save a bridge. Now he returns to help build new bridges in the arts community.

The Tambourine Collaboratory (aka “The Tambourine”) is a place for artists and musicians of all stripes to work together toward building a more vibrant local scene. Sharing tools, talents, and resources, participants take “do-it-yourself” to the next level: collaboration. Building upon the Steel Bridge Construction Zone’s immersive environment, The Tambourine facilitates year round interaction in the realms of development, production, publishing, marketing, and more.

Jackson is taking no fee for his performance. All proceeds benefit The Tambourine Collaboratory.

For more information, visit www.TheTambourine.com.

Date: Monday, June 30, 2014

Filed Under: Community Event Archive, Show/Event Archives

Rising Appalachia

June 29, 2014 by Backstage Leave a Comment

rising-postAfter their barnburning debut at DCA in 2013, genre-bending sister band Rising Appalachia returns. Though they classify their music as “progressive Appalachian groove,” Rising Appalachia is impossible to pigeonhole, mixing traditional folk songs with soul music, spoken word poetry, and even beatboxing. National Public Radio calls the resulting musical blend “aural divinity.” Passionate and enthralling, Rising Appalachia centers on multi-instrumentalist sisters Leah and Chloe Smith, who wrap their haunting vocals around accompaniment by banjo, fiddle, drums, kalimba, djembe, spoons, and washboard, merging a broad array of world music traditions with their own deep Appalachian roots.

Date: Sunday, June 29, 2014

Major Sponsors: Tapuat Kombucha, The Shallows Resort
Supporting Sponsor: FLS Banners

Filed Under: Main Stage Presentation Archive, Show/Event Archives

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

June 26, 2014 by Backstage Leave a Comment

preservation-postWith a joyful swagger that could only come from New Orleans, Preservation Hall Jazz Band has been playing Louisiana jazz since 1961. Today, the band’s multi-generational members sustain and expand the rich tradition of jazz music that permeates life in the Crescent City. Boasting a direct lineage from the earliest incarnations of New Orleans jazz, Preservation Hall Jazz Band maintains a robust touring and recording presence, collaborating with musicians like Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, and Del McCoury. Whether performing at Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Center, for British royalty or the king of Thailand, Preservation Hall Jazz Band shines with an exuberant, timeless spirit.

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2014

Underwriting Provided By: William & Colette Goldammer & The Goldammer Family Foundation
Major Sponsor: Landmark Resort
Supporting Sponsors: The Cordon Family Foundation, Tapuat Kombucha

Filed Under: Main Stage Presentation Archive, Show/Event Archives

Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass at DCA

June 25, 2014 by Backstage Leave a Comment

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On Saturday, July 12, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) will present Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass. Ira Glass is the host and creator of This American Life, the award-winning public radio program that draws almost 2 million listeners per week. Like his radio show, Glass is known for his shrewd journalism, compassionate insight, and wry humor. At DCA, Glass will speak with his trademark wit about This American Life and how it’s put together: what makes a compelling story, how Glass and his staff find stories for the show, and the show’s journalistic goals.

Ira Glass began his career as an intern at National Public Radio’s network headquarters in Washington, DC in 1978, when he was 19 years old. Over the years, he has worked on nearly every NPR network news program and held virtually every production job in NPR’s Washington headquarters. He has been a tape cutter, newscast writer, desk assistant, editor, and producer. He has filled in as host of Talk of the Nation and Weekend All Things Considered. In 2013, Glass received the Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

The New York Times writes, “Mr. Glass is a journalist but also a storyteller who filters his interviews and impressions through a distinctive literary imagination, an eccentric intelligence, and a sympathetic heart.”

This American Life was founded by Ira Glass and premiered on Chicago’s public radio station WBEZ in 1995. The show is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week. With a tone that ranges from light-hearted to sardonic to tragic, This American Life uses first-person narratives and editorial commentary to address everything from current events to human nature. Most weeks, the podcast of the program is the most popular podcast in America. The show also airs each week on the CBC in Canada and on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio network.

According to The Nation, “What’s amazing is how new 
[This American Life] sounds. It has this beat all to itself….These stories float right into your brain and lodge there.”

Ira Glass’ performance is sponsored by Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant and Butik, Peninsula Pulse, and Wisconsin Public Radio.

Ira Glass will speak at DCA at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 12. Tickets for the concert range from $28 to $48. Advance reservations are recommended and can be made through the DCA box office, located at 3926 Highway 42 in Fish Creek. The box office is open Monday-Friday, 12-5 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in person, on the phone at (920) 868-2728, or online at www.dcauditorium.org.

Filed Under: Behind The Scenes, Press Release

Provocative Troubadour Bruce Cockburn Performs at DCA

June 25, 2014 by Backstage Leave a Comment

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On Tuesday, July 8, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) presents perceptive, provocative troubadour Bruce Cockburn. Always a restless spirit, Cockburn is a Canadian singer-songwriter who has worked for 40 years to capture in song the essence of human experience—and to make that experience better whenever possible. Cockburn’s unparalleled balance of eloquence and passion ensures that his prized songbook will be celebrated for many years to come.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Few musicians have been as curious, probing or provocative as Cockburn.”

As a songwriter, Bruce Cockburn is revered by fans and musicians alike. His songs have been covered by such diverse artists as Jimmy Buffett, Judy Collins, Anne Murray, Chet Atkins, k.d. lang, Barenaked Ladies, Maria Muldaur, and the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia.

As a guitarist, Cockburn is considered to be among the world’s best. The New York Times called Cockburn a “virtuoso on guitar,” while Acoustic Guitar magazine placed him in the esteemed company of Andrés Segovia, Bill Frisell, and Django Reinhardt. Between travels to such far-flung places as Guatemala, Mali, Mozambique, and Nepal, Cockburn has embraced folk, jazz, rock, and international guitar styles and incorporated them into his intelligent, perceptive songcraft.

His songs, along with his extensive humanitarian work, have brought Cockburn a long list of honors, including 13 Juno Awards, an induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and several international awards. In 1982, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

Bruce Cockburn’s performance is sponsored by Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant and Butik, Made in Britain, Ltd., and FLS Banners.

Bruce Cockburn will perform at DCA at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, July 8. Tickets for the concert range from $22 to $38. Advance reservations are recommended and can be made through the DCA box office, located at 3926 Highway 42 in Fish Creek. The box office is open Monday-Friday, 12-5 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in person, on the phone at (920) 868-2728, or online at www.dcauditorium.org.

Filed Under: Behind The Scenes, Press Release

Preservation Hall comes to Door Community Auditorium

June 23, 2014 by Michelle Rasmusson Leave a Comment

When Preservation Hall comes to Door Community Auditorium it’s as if you’ve stepped right out of Door County and fallen smack dab into the heart of New Orleans.

Two years ago, my husband and I were thrown head first into the essence of NOLA and our local friends there made sure we left with an experience that could never be replicated. We ate the local cuisine, fished the bayou, and soaked up the culture that one could not even begin to explain and do it justice. Just a few years before, we had been to the area after hurricane Katrina trying to pick up the pieces of a city that really shouldn’t be there. The city sits in a bowl and although natural disaster is inevitable, it’s people choose to stand by her no matter what scars she may bare.

Just one of the places that shows the soul and the strength of the New Orleans culture is found under a tiny sign and iron gate, practically hidden, on St. Peters Street in the French Quarter. It’s called Preservation Hall and although the name may make you think it’s a place with a big stage and lots of tiered seating it is anything but; its draw is not the setting but the musicians in it. You enter the gate and walk up to a weathered desk where only cash will grant you access. From there you enter a room that can’t be more than forty by forty and you instantly feel a vibe that makes your heart smile. A vibe that makes you understand why people stay and why this sometimes imperfect city will never go away.

I play a short snippet I caught on my phone from that day every once in a while just to take me back to that sense of clarity. It’s grainy and foggy from the humidity, but even a bad recording makes my arms tingle a bit and pulls me right back into that question I just can’t answer…what is it about New Orleans and how does this colorful group capture it all in a few songs? The second time I saw Preservation Hall was at Door Community Auditorium and it was a bit of a culture shock when you step out onto the streets of Fish Creek instead of the slate walkways of the French Quarter. It’s the closest I’ve been to New Orleans since that night on St Peters Street, and we’ll be right back there again this Thursday, June 26th when Preservation Hall brings their signature sound and all those great memories of NOLA back to Door County.

Filed Under: Behind The Scenes

Rockin’ At the DCA

June 23, 2014 by Lynn Olson Leave a Comment

A sold-out crowd was treated to a wonderful double-header concert at Door County Auditorium last Friday night. Judy Collins and Don McLean arrived on jet planes in buckets of rain to sing the songs of almost half a century ago. It felt like a celebration! Judy swept onstage with her long blonde hair flowing, dressed in black. After a funny lament about her lost luggage and guitar, and a tango with a too-tall microphone, she immediately started telling her stories. Judy did a great job of seducing us into our own memories with her deeper, but still crystalline voice. Her tribute to Pete Seeger was very touching; her slam of Bob Dylan’s treatment of Joan Baez in “Diamonds and Rust” used up every hanky in the hall. We didn’t get an encore although we were happy to give our elegant American icon a standing ovation.

Then Don McLean and his band arrived. After shoving the piano around and rearranging the stage, McLean yelled out to the guys at the light table to bring up the house lights, immediately erasing Judy’s moody, atmospheric setting. McLean stepped up to the mike and told us to pull up our diapers and get ready to work hard. “If you work hard for us, we’ll work hard for you,” he said. “Turn on your cameras and iPhones and get clickin’. Then, after a couple of songs, he stopped and told us we were a terrible audience. He said he was older than any of us (not true) but that he had more energy than all of us put together. We looked at each other. Did we just get verbally spanked by Don McLean? And then he sang “Crying”. That did it. We stopped acting like nice senior citizens and got rockin’. People clapped and swayed and sang their lungs out. “Now you got it!” shouted Mclean, finally serving up about 25 minutes of sweet “American Pie”.

It’s not every day that we get to revisit our teenaged selves with the music we loved from so long ago. But, diapers? Really? Still, we were be-boppin’ and singing our way through the wet parking lots, maybe wishing we’d find a turquoise Thunderbird waiting instead of a silver Prius. Maybe we’d turn on the radio and get our encore from Judy, a sweet rendition of “Who Knows Where The Time Goes”. Indeed.

Filed Under: Behind The Scenes

Don McLean and Judy Collins

June 20, 2014 by Backstage Leave a Comment

judy-don-postDon McLean and Judy Collins both burst onto the American musical landscape in the 1960s with anthems that came to define a generation. In an extraordinary double bill at DCA, these folk-rock stars will showcase the inimitable performance styles that made them legends. Grammy Hall of Fame inductee McLean’s wistful tenor is as unmistakable as the nostalgic groove of American Pie or the languid lyricism of Vincent (Starry Starry Night). Judy Collins’ crystalline soprano sailed onto American airwaves with the megahit Both Sides, Now and remains iconic to this day, painting from an eclectic musical palette that includes folk, cabaret, pop, and show tunes. Together, Collins and McLean are unforgettable.

Date: Friday, June 20, 2014

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Major Sponsor: Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik
Supporting Sponsor: The Cordon Family Foundation

Filed Under: Main Stage Presentation Archive, Show/Event Archives

Pokey LaFarge Brings “Riverboat Soul” to DCA

June 19, 2014 by Backstage Leave a Comment

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On Wednesday, July 2, Pokey LaFarge will bring his unique brand of old-timey “riverboat soul” to Door Community Auditorium (DCA). With a style that’s both ragged and polished, LaFarge is a songwriter, bandleader, innovator, and preservationist whose arsenal of talents has placed him at the forefront of old-time American music.

Accompanied by a top-notch backup band, Pokey LaFarge plays with a classic bluesman’s confidence, infusing his performances with dynamic vocals, effortless wit, and good old-fashioned storytelling. Time Out Chicago writes of LaFarge, “His jumpy American roots music is pure joy.”

Over the last decade, Pokey LaFarge has endeared himself to music lovers across the globe with his lively mix of early jazz, string ragtime, country blues, and western swing music. Born in the American heartland and now based in St. Louis, Missouri, LaFarge has a Midwestern charisma that draws audiences in. Stephen Thompson of NPR says LaFarge “evokes the old-timey spirit of a thousand crackling 78 RPM records.”

In the past, LaFarge has played with the likes of Jack White, The Raconteurs, Wanda Jackson, Old Crow Medicine Show, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops. 2014 looks to be LaFarge’s most momentous year yet, with a tour trail consisting of over 250 shows that includes appearances at clubs and festivals across the USA and Canada, as well as two extensive tours in Europe.

LaFarge is currently touring with a five-piece backing band, including his original bandmates, Ryan Koenig (harmonica, washboard, snare), Adam Hoskins (guitar) and Joey Glynn (upright bass); as well as Chloe Feoranzo (clarinet) and TJ Muller (cornet).

Pokey Lafarge is sponsored by The Blacksmith Inn on the Shore.

Pokey LaFarge and his band will perform at DCA at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 2. Tickets for the concert range from $15 to $25. Advance reservations are recommended and can be made through the DCA box office, located at 3926 Highway 42 in Fish Creek. The box office is open Monday-Friday, 12-5 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in person, on the phone at (920) 868-2728, or online at www.dcauditorium.org.

Filed Under: Behind The Scenes, Press Release

Ira Glass at the Auditorium

June 11, 2014 by Linda Laarman Leave a Comment

I can’t wait to see what it’s like to be in our pretty intimate Auditorium space with him, live. One can check him out on the web, of course, and get an idea. Still, who ever conjures up much of a physical image when they think of Ira Glass? Don’t you just mainly hear the voice, the unique speech pattern, the slow but suspenseful unraveling of whatever story he’s telling? (A story that, if told by anyone else, just wouldn’t work.) I’m really curious to see the facial expressions, the gestures, how he uses the stage, how he interacts with the audience . . .

Filed Under: Behind The Scenes

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