Archive for 'Music'
CDs by Door County Musicians Debra Hadraba and Early Thomas Try Out New Ways to Market Original Music
Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by Stephen Kastner.
Two approaches by local musicians who are experimenting with new models to make money in the music business. It was October 10, 2007 when Radiohead released In Rainbows online, as a pay-what-you-want download. According to an NPR feature story, “Essentially, Radiohead’s members said they knew the record would leak. They might as well be the [...]
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VIDEO: Debra Hadraba’s “Time on Fire” 7-song Multi-media CD Invites You to Join In the Mix
Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Debra Hadraba.
Door County’s zaniest waitress releases new music CD with additional enhancements that include music videos, lyrics, video e-Books and more… Editor’s Note: I have the privilege of working with Debra as a filmmaker and web designer, helping to animate and illustrate her work. She wrote the following “message from the heart” regarding the making of [...]
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“Artists in the Schools” Brings Jazz Musicians to Washington Island Schools and Door County Public School Kids to Birch Creek
Posted on 20. Nov, 2009 by Staff Reporter.
Jazz musicians and Birch Creek faculty members Reggie Thomas and Rick Haydon Meet with Door County students on November 19 and 20. “Artists in the Schools” is an outreach program that reaches as many as 400 Door County public school students annually with Birch Creek faculty members visiting instrumental music classrooms and conducting two-hour seminars. [...]
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VIDEO: “Be Brave, Have Heart” – Door County Local Waitress at Julie’s Café Releases Single in Los Angeles
Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 by Stephen Kastner.
Debra Hadraba’s Anthem for the Braveheart Women Global Community to Premiere at “Rise!” October 2 -3 You may know her as the zany, pigtailed, blonde waitress with the wild knee socks at Julie’s Park Café in Fish Creek. For eight years Debra Hadraba has been making the annual trek from her home in St. Paul [...]
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Door County Style Magazine’s “This Weekend In Door County” BTR Show Interviews Peacocks’ Chris Bishop – Hear it now!
Posted on 30. Jul, 2009 by Stephen Kastner.
This week we talk with special guest Chris Bishop, and feature a recent track entitled “With Love” that he wrote and recorded with his band The Peacocks. The show aired live at 1 pm and is now available to listen to in streaming format or as a downloadable podcast at the Door County Style Channel [...]
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VIDEO Enjoying the Peg Egan PAC Free Outdoor Concert Series in Door County… Here’s Willy Porter’s “Paper Airplane”
Posted on 21. Jul, 2009 by Stephen Kastner.
On Sunday evening, July 19, Willy Porter provided an audience of several hundred residents and visitors of Door County with a powerful, free outdoor concert at the Peg Egan PAC, Egg Harbor’s open-air amphitheatre. Willy’s music and his wit combined for a delightful and thought-provoking performance as the sun set in the western skies over [...]
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Steel Bridge Songfest’s Delaney Davidson Celebrates the Workers Rebuilding Door County’s Unique Holiday “Music” Motel in “Blackie’s Men”
Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by Stephen Kastner.
One of the songs created in the Construction Zone and performed at the Steel Bridge Songfest lauds the workers reconstructing the Holiday Motel. New Zealander, Delaney Davidson was impressed with them, “…doing the impossible again. Blackie’s men.” Delaney Davidson is joined here by Eric McFadden on guitar, Jeff Hammes on bass and Wally Ingram on [...]
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One-of-a-Kind “Music Motel” Opens its Doors in Sturgeon Bay With Open House Tours, June 27
Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Staff Reporter.
For millions of Door County visitors since 1952, the iconic red and white façade of the Holiday Motel has put an end to the question, “Are we there yet?” A similar sense of excitement can still be felt in downtown Sturgeon Bay where the Steel Bridge meets Michigan Street, as the remodeling and “retrovation” of [...]
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Sigmund Snopek III Christmas CD Just Released… “Ornaments”
Posted on 13. Dec, 2008 by Stephen Kastner.
One of Door County’s favorite entertainers, Sigmund Snopek III has just issued a brand new Christmas CD and it is “gift-priced” at $9.99. “Ornaments” is comprised of 12 songs, 34 minutes total and comes bundled with 3 pieces of gourmet chocolate. Find out more about Sig’s life’s work and order your own copies of “Ornaments” [...]
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Hans Christian Releases “Sancta Camisia” Recorded in Chartres Cathedral
Posted on 26. Nov, 2008 by Staff Reporter.
Hans Christian, whose music with RASA and singer Kim Waters has reached a global audience and who has produced numerous CDs with other artists, has again presented a recording of sacred music- a solo cello CD that was recorded inside one of the most famous sacred spaces in the world- Chartres Cathedral in France. Through [...]





