Big Top Chautauqua opens its 23rd season Friday with "Carry On," a new opening show. It's a tribute to the late, much-missed bandleader Don Pavel, and also missed Big Top regular banjo player Mark ...

11 a.m. – 1 p.m. – Big Top Chautauqua: Grandstand Stage (North 2nd Street) 11 a.m. – Bayfield Firemen’s Fish Fry, Beer Garden and Live Music, Bayfield Lakeside Pavilion ...

In an incident coming just days before the Big Top Chautauqua founder was to begin serving a jail term for sexual assault, Warren Nelson jumped into a Bayfield County lake while running away from ...

Bayfield, Wis., is about a four-hour drive from Rochester, via U.S. 63. Information on lodging, dining, attractions and events is available at www.bayfield.org, and by calling 1-800-447-4094.