Description
Event Details:
Date: Saturday, August 9, 2025
Time: 7PM
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
Known for her soulful voice and elegant phrasing, Claire brings classic jazz standards and fresh interpretations to life. Mrs. Fun, featuring keyboardist Connie Grauer and drummer Kim Zick, blends funk, jazz, and groove into a bold, genre-defying sound. Together, they create a vibrant fusion of rhythm and melody that’s both sophisticated and electric.
About the Artists:
Claire Morkin has been a professional singer and actress for more than 30 years. She recorded two jazz albums and has performed extensively in regional theaters in Chicago, Milwaukee as well as Off Broadway in New York.
She served as the drama director and voice coach for musicals at Sevastopol High School and Tomah Middle School, taught voice privately for ten years and was the forensics coach at Sturgeon Bay High School for six years.
Complex. Sophisticated. Adventurous. The music of MRS. FUN is a unique blend of off-center jazz, ultra-funk, spoken word rap, and neo-cabaret.
The Beginning: Kim Zick and Connie Grauer are born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, home town of Les Paul. They attend the same high school, but rarely speak to each other; not much in common or so they think. Years later Kim forms a band and needs a keyboard player. Remembering a great musician from high school, she calls Connie and the rest is history.
Nashville: Kim and Connie move to Nashville to back up country singer Traci Peel. A year later they quit the band and form MRS. FUN. While in Nashville they make many friends with whom they record and/or perform with. Most notably; kd lang, Indigo Girls, Victor Wooten, Edgar Meyer, Jim Rooney, Jill Sobule, Jane Siberry and Janis Ian. They stay in Nashville for 5 years and then return to their homeland of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee: To date, MRS. FUN has made Milwaukee their base. They continue to develop their music as well as collaborate with others.
