Midsummer’s Music: Concert one for the Road (Scholars)

I just returned home from another Midsummer’s Music concert. This one was July 2 at Rowley’s Bay Resort on the Lake Michigan side, east of Sister Bay. It was a concert that included a dinner option after the performance. We do a number of these every year. You can come… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music: Art imitates life in Clearing show

We recently performed another concert at The Clearing Folk School in Ellison Bay. The beautiful old Jens Jensen-built “schoolhouse” is a quintessential Midsummer’s Music venue. Sitting high atop the Niagara Escarpment bluff, one can see the waters of Green Bay far below and the distant shore of Michigan through pine… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music: Surprising surprises in next program

Starting June 30, Midsummer’s Music Festival will present the first of four concerts titled “Surprising Masters.” Three of these concerts will be in gorgeous homes, all on the water, from Gills Rock to just north of Sturgeon Bay. The fourth will be in Old Town Hall in Fish Creek. The… [Read More]

Midsummer’s: Long-ago memories lead to ‘Fast Friends’

Last week, in the spirit of celebrating our 25th anniversary season, I wrote about our very first concert in 1991, which occurred at the home of Dianne and Peter Trenchard in Sister Bay. Tuesday, we made a trip down Memory Lane and performed there again. This week we are returning… [Read More]

Midsummer’s Music: A 25-year case of deja vu

It all started with one concert a long time ago, luxuriating in a beautiful home set in the midst of a place where I would like to spend more time — a golf course. Somehow, sometime earlier, I let several friends convince me that if I could get a small… [Read More]