Midsummer’s Music, Birch Creek Music Performance Center, Colin & Friends Concerts, Colin Welford, Ephraim Moravian Church, and Cynthia Stiehl collaborated with the United Way of Door County, Wis., on May 13 and 14 to present two free concerts to benefit the Door County Food Pantry Coalition as part of the nationwide “Music for Food” program.

Sixty-one guests attended the May 13 concert at Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor, bringing 200 pounds of food and giving $842. On May 14, 104 attendees at Ephraim Moravian Church donated 125 pounds of food and $2,040.

The free concerts featured Midsummer’s Executive Director Allyson Fleck, violin, Birch Creek’s Executive Director Mona Christensen, flute, Ephraim Moravian Church’s Music Director Colin Welford, keyboard, Griffon String Quartet Residency Coordinator Roy Meyer, violin, and mezzo-soprano and philanthropist Cynthia Stiehl. Music included selections from J.S. Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Arthur Foote, Paul Hindemith, William Bolcom, Ned Rorem, Louis Vierne, and Alexander Scriabin.

Midsummer’s Music is the official Door County representative of the Boston-based Music for Food program. Music for Food’s concerts across the country have raised funds to create more than two million meals. Food-insecurity affects millions of Americans, especially those with children and those who self-identify as Black, Latinx, or Native American. The USDA calculates that 38 million people – including 12 million children – are currently food-insecure in the United States. More information about Music for Food, including the locations and dates of other events, is available at musicforfood.net.

Midsummer’s Music was co-founded in 1990 by Jim and Jean Berkenstock, long-time Door County summer residents and principal orchestral players with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. What began as two concerts among friends has become one of the Midwest’s most anticipated chamber music series, bringing thousands of chamber music enthusiasts from around the globe to the magical Door County Peninsula.