WPR Music, Arts & Culture calendar

Songs that span generations, including iconic anthems of peace and love, beloved songs of your youth, and tunes for youngsters. This performance by acclaimed artists David HB Drake and Julie Thompson is guaranteed to leave you feeling connected and inspired. David HB Drake, a renowned Wisconsin Folk Music Artist of the Year (2002), brings a […]

The Milwaukee Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Gamboa, announces its fall concert performance entitled A Time and Place. Discover how music can define and evoke historical times and places. Enjoy pieces such as Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Sibelius’s Finlandia, and learn how they embodied history. Smile and tap your toes while the […]

Internationally renowned concert organist Dr. Isabelle Demers will perform a rededication concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, at Duluth’s First United Methodist Church (aka “The Coppertop”). The concert celebrates the completion of the church’s recent renovation and expansion of its Austin pipe organ. Admission to the concert is free, with a freewill offering to […]

Part of the 2024-2025 Amcor Student Discovery Series November 5, 2024 | 9:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. Recommended Grade Levels: K-5 NEW This year: The Amcor Student Discovery Series is open to the General Public! Charming Japanese folktales are combined with traditional musical instruments, magical masks, origami and mime to create a spellbinding story. Kuniko’s […]

Part of the 2024-2025 Amcor Student Discovery Series November 5, 2024 | 9:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. Recommended Grade Levels: K-5 NEW This year: The Amcor Student Discovery Series is open to the General Public! Charming Japanese folktales are combined with traditional musical instruments, magical masks, origami and mime to create a spellbinding story. Kuniko’s […]

Caley Conway There are moments in Caley Conway’s latest album, Partner, when the ever-busy Milwaukee singer-songwriter finds herself caught in the humdrum duties of daily life. There are things to do—or not—people to see—or not—and the ones and zeros of technology to attend to. And then, suddenly, she’s off and dreaming, belly laughing with a distant […]

The Verona Area Community Orchestra starts the 2024-2025 season with Shostakovich 5th Symphony, Delius Walk to the Paradise Garden, Rimsky-Korsakov Dubinushka, and Tombstone Galop. Set your calendars for November 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Verona Area High School Performing Arts Center. Free and open to the public. For more info, please visit https://www.facebook.com/events/1147531719684800

Rakish, duo of fiddler Maura Shawn Scanlin and guitarist Conor Hearn will present a night of original Celtic and Americana music as part of the Leaky Lake House Concert series. Strings Magazine says: “Explorative and versatile, the duo draws evident inspiration from not just the deep and wide history of Scottish and Irish Celtic composition, […]

Friday, November 8, 2024 Doors: 6:30pm / Concert: 7:00pm CelticMKE Center Having earned a reputation as one of Ireland’s finest singers and songwriters McCabe has performed extensively with his Folk-Soul […]

Join us in Capitol Theater as we kick off the 24/25 Masterworks season with a fiery display of masterful musicianship. We open with a gem from the classical era by German composer and Mozart contemporary, Carl P. Stamitz with Symphony in C Major, Op. 13/16 No. 5. This work provides a beautiful prequel for the […]

This deconstructed art experience, created by Heidi Latsky Dance/NYC, is brought to Milwaukee under the direction of Catey Ott Thompson. Milwaukee residents representing professional and non-professional performers of all body types, ages, and abilities/disabilities will move minimally through an hour-long silent installation. The performance is part of “On Display Global”, created by Heidi Latsky Dance […]

Clear-eyed and tough-minded, songwriter/playwright Katie Dahl is known for her smart songs, wry wit, and wise spirit. Firmly rooted in Door County, where her family has lived for 175 years, […]