Birch Creek 2013 Special Events
Wisconsin Public Television's "Jazz at Birch Creek"
June 23
Airing Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. on WXXI-TV, the program features faculty and students from Birch Creek Music Performance Center and the Eastman School of Music. Click here for more information.
Night Sky Viewing
July 17
Music under the stars...Come to hear the Percussion and Steel Band music and stay to view the stars and planets after the concert. Members of the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society will be at Birch Creek with telescopes set up south of the Granary to explain what you see and answer any questions you may have. Rain date: July 18.
Concert tickets are available: $29/$10/$6.
Birch Creek Ambassadors at Gibraltar Grill
July 26, July 31 August 9 and August 14
The Birch Creek Ambassadors will once again perform for evening restaurant patrons at the Gibraltar Grill in Fish Creek. Owner Tom Young and the Gibraltar Grill staff are pleased to welcome back the birch Creek Ambassadors to play jazz for their restaurant patrons on four evenings. On two of those days 10% of the sales at Gibraltar Grill will be donated to birch Creek's scholarship fund to benefit students in the Jazz sessions.
- Friday, July 26 from 8:00-10:00 p.m.
- *Wednesday, July 31 from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
- Friday, August 9 from 8:00-10:00 p.m.
- *Wednesday, August 14 from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
* 10% of sales, open to close, will be donated to Birch Creek on these special days!
Birch Creek Associates' Style Show & Luncheon
July 26
Break out you "Baubles & Beads" for the Birch Creek Associates' annual Style Show and Luncheon. This very popular event will take place at the Horseshoe Bay Golf Club in Egg Harbor. It begins at 11:30 a.m. Tickets are available for $45 per person.
James Dutton Memorial Concert
August 17
This annual event is dedicated to the memory and vision of Birch Creek co-founder, Jim Dutton, who with his wife, Fran, gave life to Birch Creek and its mission in 1976. Pre-concert music in the gazebo, 7:30 p.m.; concert begins at 8 p.m. in the Dutton concert barn. Tickets available $29/$10/$6.
Check back here for other great Birch Creek special events to be posted as information becomes available!
In 2012: Wisconsin Public Television Presented
"Jazz At Birch Creek"
- Wisconsin Public Television spent three days on Birch Creek's campus in preparation for the videotaping of the August 12, 2011 concert which featured Birch Creek students and faculty. The program "Jazz at Birch Creek" came from this recording, and it aired in January and February 2012 on Wisconsin Public Television's various channels. There are currently no scheduled broadcast of "Jazz at Birch Creek."
Check here for future viewing opportunities to be posted as dates and times become available.
Wisconsin Public Television recording in August 2011 at Birch Creek Music Performance Center, Egg Harbor, Wis.
