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“Big Tent. Big Sound.”
Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua (sha-ta-qwa) is a year round non profit performing arts organization with a rich history. We operate an intimate 900-seat, all-canvas, state-of-the-art tent theater, producing and presenting a fifty-plus night summer season of concerts, plays, lectures, and a highly acclaimed professional local troupe which performs original multi-media musicals in the tent and on tour. Tent Show Radio, a weekly one hour program which showcases live performances from the Big Top stage, is aired on public radio stations throughout the country. We are nestled at the base of Mt. Ashwabay Ski Hill, 3 miles south of Bayfield, Wisconsin, overlooking Lake Superior and the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Our summer schedule includes performances by renowned national, regional and touring musicians and runs from mid June to early September. On balmy summer nights the tent sidewalls can be lifted and people may sit outside and even up on the hillside. The sound is superb and on clear nights you can see the Milky Way and sometimes even the Northern Lights!
I'm absolutely in love; incredibly friendly, awesome crowd, crazy-neat venue, and the best shuttle service between campsites I've ever seen. The tent is a very intimate setting-- not a bad seat... Read more
Wow....this place is amazing! I'm very glad a friend told me about Big Top when I shared that I was traveling to Bayfield for vacation. Saw the Indigo Girls. Amazing concert at an amazing... Read more
The big top tent leaks substantially during rain storms. Entire rows (including great seats!) are uninhabitable and had plastic draped over them- in an effort to collect the wet for our bottoms to... Read more
Big Top Chautauqua
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