Door County Jazz Festival founder Staci Griesbach hopes you are taking advantage of the opportunity to see some of the state's best jazz groups this week. The acclaimed singer and producer launched the festival this year to find more audiences for the genre, previously only celebrated by Birch Creek Music Performance Center, with their two Big Band Jazz sessions. With the theme of “Celebrating Centennial Stars Under the Sturgeon Moon,” the Door County Jazz Festival has brought performers from the UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, UWGB’s Sharon J. Resch Institute of Music, the Milwaukee Jazz Institute, Lawrence University’s Conservatory of Music, and UW-Stevens Point to locations across the peninsula. Griesbach says the positive feedback has only been trumped by the fantastic performances.

 

After the Door County Jazz Festival makes it Baileys Harbor stop on Thursday, the event heads to Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor on Friday night before concluding at Sturgeon Bay’s Martin Park on Saturday afternoon. Below, you can read more about the shows, including performances that occurred earlier in the week in Fish Creek, Sister Bay, and Ephraim.