Description
Event Details:
Date: Saturday, August 8th, 2026
Time: Doors at 7PM • Concert at 8PM
Venue: MUSE Sturgeon Bay
Directions: 330 Jefferson Street, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 54235. On the corner of Third Avenue and Jefferson Street in downtown Sturgeon Bay.
Phone: 920-333-2859
Email: tickets@musesturgeonbay.com
About Spike and April:
Door County, WI-based duo Spike and April play only songs they enjoy. Gleaning material from jazz, swing and rock they cover familiar tunes and obscurities.
Set lists include their own inspired, finely-crafted originals. Music veterans Mike “Spike” Judy on guitar/voice and April Pate on drums/voice, create a laid-back mood filled with great songs.
Mike has been in many inspired bands including “Spike and the Eargoggles” an improvisational group consisting of Milwaukees’ finest musicians. His Minneapolis bands “Up Simba” and “Laundromat Vacation” were assertively instrumental projects featuring Mike on electric guitar/bass that played some of his original compositions. He also was a founding member of the WAMI award winning Milwaukee band “Semi Twang”.
April is a singer and drummer. Vocally inspired by Astrud Gilberto, Blossom Dearie, Johnny Mathis and Nat Cole, she has a smooth and genuine vocal style.
About Amelie Reed and Tim Fox:
Amelie Reed is a Sister Bay native that grew up studying piano and attending the summer jazz program at Birch Creek. She is currently studying at DePaul University’s School of Music. In the summer she studies piano with Tim Fox and sits in with the Cool Bay Jazz Quintet!
Pianist and trumpet player Tim Fox graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in Music Education. He has played trumpet and/or piano in the Chicago area, around Colorado’s Western Slope, and on the road, with the likes of “The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra,” under the direction of Buddy Morrow, “The Temptations” and “The Four Tops,” Eric Alexander, Ed Soph, Ernie Watts, Red Skelton, Barbara Eden, Connie Francis, Mitzi Gaynor, and with many more. Tim facilitated, with the generous support of Jazz Aspen Snowmass (JAS,) the Roaring Fork Jazz Workshop, and worked closely with the JAS’s education initiatives. He is currently a freelance musician, living near the Southern Door County, Wisconsin, but still collaborates with musicians from Denver to Grand Junction, and considers himself a member of the Josefina Mendez Jazz trio and Elements Jazz.
