Tag Archives: Pat MacDonald
2nd Annual PAA Artfund Benefit Features Door County Musicians and Businesses in Support of the “Grandmother of the Arts,” Nov 9
Posted on 28. Oct, 2011 by Stephen Kastner.
For almost three-quarters of a century, the Peninsula Arts Association (PAA) has been a nurturing economic force within the Door Community, working hand-in-hand with matched funding from the Wisconsin Arts Board (WAB) to provide grants to local artists and art organizations. But earlier this year, Governor Walker’s budget plan cut state funding for the arts [...]
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Holiday Music Motel Hosts Dark Songwriting Fest Capped off with Cherry Lanes Concerts, Oct 28-29
Posted on 26. Oct, 2011 by Stephen Kastner.
Each year in late October, the Holiday Music Motel and Recording Studios hosts the annual “Dark Songs Edgar Allan Polka” songwriting event, bringing some of the nation’s hottest talent to Door County for collaborative musical cross-pollination. The list of creative performers reads like a “Who’s Who” of Steel Bridge Songfest’s regulars: Geri X, Kim Manning, [...]
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Sturgeon Bay’s Holiday Music Motel Launches Postcard Contest
Posted on 15. Jan, 2011 by Staff Reporter.
The Holiday Music Motel in Door County has just issued a challenge: Design a winning postcard by February 28 and they just might print it to encourage motel guests to send it around the world – not to mention the nice little first-place prize package being offered! Many music-lovers are familiar with the Steel Bridge [...]
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“Dark Songs” Come to Light in Door County with a Week of Songwriting and Halloween Weekend Concerts
Posted on 13. Oct, 2010 by Staff Reporter.
“The theme is flexible,” says pat mAcdonald, event organizer and Creative Director at the Holiday Music Motel.” Morbid is okay, dark humor even better.” As in Steel Bridge Songfest’s Construction Zone, the songwriters who participate in the annual Dark Songs for Halloween are challenged to gather for a week at Sturgeon Bay’s unique Holiday Music [...]
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CDs by Door County Musicians Debra Hadraba and Early Thomas Try Out New Ways to Market Original Music
Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by Stephen Kastner.
Two approaches by local musicians who are experimenting with new models to make money in the music business. It was October 10, 2007 when Radiohead released In Rainbows online, as a pay-what-you-want download. According to an NPR feature story, “Essentially, Radiohead’s members said they knew the record would leak. They might as well be the [...]
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Calling All Songwriters, Poets, Comedians and Authors to “Thursday Writer’s Night” at Door County’s Holiday Music Motel!
Posted on 30. Dec, 2009 by Stephen Kastner.
As part of an ongoing mission to foster Door County’s historic Sturgeon Bay as a creative hub for the performing arts the Holiday Music Motel’s Creative Director, pat mAcdonald introduces “Thursday Writer’s Night.” Rick Younglove encourages local songwriters, poets, comedians and authors to come out of their closets and join with him on Thursdays. As [...]
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Saturday Night at the bowling alley…
Posted on 04. Sep, 2008 by Stephen Kastner.
Yesterday, just before deadline, I got the following e-mail from my timeless friend Pat, who likes to see his name spelled with a capital A… I added in the links. “hey! i (pat mAcdonald) will be playing THIS SATURDAY September 6 with FOXY VERONICA’S PEACH PIES, Madison’s queens of “Caburlesque” at CHERRY LANES Rock ‘n [...]
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Monday, rain may fall
Posted on 04. Aug, 2008 by Stephen Kastner.
I am enrolled in the Wisconsin Theater Game Center‘s week-long Teachers’ Workshop… learning to use the Spolin games as a teaching resource from Bob Moyer and Max Schafer. Last fall I had the privilege of being a coach for the Gibraltar Destination Imagination middle school team. I used the Spoling games as an effective means [...]
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