Archive for 'Musicians'
Less than $1000 Left to Kickstart Kim Manning’s Holiday Music Motel Recording Project, 3 Days Left!
Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by Stephen Kastner.
With 76 Backers pledging $3,031 of her $4,000 goal and 3 days left to go, Kim Manning needs a boost to activate her Kickstarter. Kim Manning has been in Sturgeon Bay at the Holiday Music Motel & Studios for several days recording her second album, “Good People” and she needs a little local support! Kickstarter [...]
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Birch Creek Music Performance Center Faculty Members in the Spotlight, Lewis and Holmes-Hicks
Posted on 16. Jun, 2011 by Staff Reporter.
This is the 18th year that Betty Lewis has been with the Birch Creek Symphony Orchestra and one of her former students, EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks is now an Associate Faculty member. Birch Creek string instructor Betty Lewis is an active violinist and violist in the Chicago area, performing with groups ranging from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra [...]
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Birch Creek Music Performance Center Faculty Members in the Spotlight, Castañeda and Horan
Posted on 15. Jun, 2011 by Staff Reporter.
For more than a decade, Symphony Program Director Ricardo Castañeda and assistant Erin Horan have also led the oboe instruction at Birch Creek. Ricardo Castañeda stays sufficiently busy while on the Birch Creek campus. Not only is he the oboe instructor, he is also the Symphony Program Director, handling many administrative aspects of the session [...]
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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 [...]





