Dancing to their own music: How a group of women from Door County helped form the Peninsula music Festival

DOOR COUNTY (NBC 26) — This year marks 72 years of the Peninsula Music Festival and due to a special group of women... it's still thriving today.

• Video shows history of Peninsula Music Festival

• A group of women formed the Peninsula music Festival Sustaining Committee and played a big role in the events success

• This is the 72nd year of the Peninsula music Festival

(The following is a transcription of the full broadcast story)

Three weeks of the summer, three nights a week Door County has an orchestra that amazes.

"Just to stand up and sing the star-spangled banner with a magnificent orchestra like that is so thrilling," said Morse Brown.

Challoner Morse Brown has been a Peninsula Music Festival volunteer for decades.

She remembers the women, some no longer around, at the heart of it.