Welcome to PortageLIVE!
Season Tickets to all concerts including reciprocity:
$50/adult $10/student
Single Admission at Door
Adults - $20, Students - Free
Students FREE at all Portage Concerts
We are working on the Fall 2025 to Spring 2026 Concert Series. Possible shows include the following and we are hoping they are available when our venues have an opening for them. Final Artists, dates, times and locations will be announced as soon as possible.
Windiana
Wednesday, September 3 - 7:00 PM
Portage High School East
Windiana is a professional-level concert band, based in Valparaiso, Indiana, USA. Windiana's mission is to perform concert band literature at the highest level and to provide a concert band opportunity for professional-level musicians. Members of Windiana have studied with some of the most notable musicians in America, and are highly recognized for their performing and teaching. With concerts designed for audience enjoyment, diversity, and cultural understanding, Windiana performs a wide variety of music. Windiana holds an Organizational Membership in the Association of Concert Bands, which includes BMI/ASCAP Blanket Licensure. Windiana is a registered trademark, and maintains 501(c)3 status.
Founded in 2000, Windiana debuted in 2001 at Chesterton High School and at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis for the state convention of the Indiana Music Education Association (IMEA). Windiana performed again for IMEA conventions in 2004 and 2011. Windiana appeared in the concert series for the Portage Township Live Entertainment Association in 2010 and 2015, and for the Concert Association of Valparaiso in 2014 and 2019.
My Fair Audrey
Friday, October 3 - 7:00 PM
Portage High School West Auditorium
When you think of Audrey Hepburn, you think of timeless beauty. But Audrey was so much more than a pretty face and a killer clavicle. From WWII refugee to Academy Award winner, from UNICEF beneficiary to UNICEF ambassador, Audrey lead a remarkable and exemplary life. Actress, fashion icon, wife, mother, and tireless humanitarian, Audrey is as much beloved today as she was half a century ago. Join acclaimed Chicago cabaret artist, Hilary Ann Feldman for her touching, funny, and enlightening musical tribute to this extraordinary woman.
Chez Butter
Friday, November 7 - 7:00 PM
Portage High School West Auditorium
Chez Butter's repertoire consists of classic and contemporary Motown, soul, R&B, and funk hits by artists like Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Gnarls Barkley, Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, and many more.
The Chicago-based quintet's line-up comprises seasoned professional musicians - vocalist Lester Jenkins, bassist Nathan Britsch, guitarist Jay Montana, drummer Pat Buzby, and keyboardist Ethan Sellers.
Kennedy’s Kitchen
Sunday, April 26 - 3:00 PM
Woodland Park Oakwood Hall
It's Kitchen Music from the home, the hearth, and the heart. We are: John Kennedy, award winning singer and guitar player with Chris O'Brien, Joel Cooper, Mike Bill, Nancy Turner. We are occasionally joined by Jacob Turner and Nathan Waddill.
We are family and friends, gathering Thursday evenings since 1998 for dinner, laughter, and music rooted in Traditional Irish Music: jigs, reels, hornpipes, aires, recitations, stories, and songs...... original tunes, songs, and recitations, from traditional to pub songs, comedic songs, from toe-tapping to deeply moving....and it's always fun.
We play fiddle, flutes, whistles, mandolin, bouzouki, acoustic guitar, tenor banjo, harmonica, bodhran, and bass. And, we love to sing, oh how we love to sing.
