You can step back into the music that dates back nearly a century while helping to make a renovation project possible at Sturgeon Bay High School. The Swingin’ Door Big Band will perform a concert at the Robert H. Nickel Auditorium this Thursday at 7:00 p.m. The Nickel Auditorium is located at Sturgeon Bay High School and is currently raising funds for a major renovation of the facility.

“The Swingin’ Door is Door County’s local jazz band and includes 25 local musicians, including Company B, an Andrews Sisters-style female trio. Songs performed will include charts by Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman from the big band era.

Company B, a female vocal trio, will cover several Andrews Sisters’ songs, including “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree.”

Company B members Mary Hall, Kristin Malnory, and Jamie Palmer will perform a solo, and trumpeter Mark Fischer will do a rendition of Frank Sinatra's “You Make Me Feel So Young.”

The Swingin’ Door Big Band is a Glenn Miller-style jazz orchestra that seeks to recreate the sound of the 1930s and 1940s that helped Americans survive WW II.

Thursday's performance is $10 per person, which will directly benefit the project to renovate the auditorium, which is named for long-time school principal and arts supporter Robert H. Nickel.