ESCANABA — Bay College announces the Winter/Spring 2023 Besse Center concert series.

The line-up includes: Marquette Symphony Orchestra, Phil Lynch, The Slamming Doors, and Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi. All concerts start at 7 p.m. ET in the Besse Theater.

≤ On Thursday, March 16 is “U.P. Love Letter”: An Evening with Phil Lynch. Lynch delights audiences with a song style similar to James Taylor and Billy Joel, and a voice often compared to Randy Newman.

“My aim in life,” Lynch said, “is to help people recognize and remember the good that is all around us.”

Admission: $15/K-Bay: $7

≤ The Slamming Doors will be playing on Wednesday, April 5. The Slamming Doors is an energetic roots band led by singer-songwriter Adam Herman. Founded in northern Minnesota, their sound has been influenced by a unique culture with a rich and deep musical history. (The drummer, Matt Johnson, is the Bay College Norse athletic director.)

Admission: $20/K-Bay: $10

≤ On Wednesday, May 17, the group, Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi: With A Little Horseradish On the Side will be in the U.P. Yale Strom (violin) is one of the world’s leading ethnographer-artists of klezmer and Romani music. He has done extensive ethnographic research in Eastern Europe.

His findings were instrumental in forming the repertoire of his klezmer band Hot Pstromi, based in New York and San Diego. Since organizing his band in 1981, he has composed original New Jewish music that combines klezmer with Khasidic melodies, as well as Romani, jazz, classical, Bluegrass, Balkan, Arabic, and Sephardic motifs. Strom’s compositions range from several quartets to a full symphony.

Admission: $20/K-Bay: $10

≤ Joining Bay College on Thursday, May 25 is Marquette Symphony Orchestra: Midsummer Strings — Finnish Folk Trio. More details will be released as they become available.

Admission: $15/K-Bay: $7

Ticket prices vary and they are on sale now. Visit www.baycollege.tix.com, drop by the box office, or call 906-217-4045 for tickets.

For discounted K-Bay tickets, visit or call the Box Office with photo ID/Bay ID. Discounted tickets can be purchased in-person only.