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*Blues Brunch now Saturdays & Sundays!

The venue for this year's Highway 91 Music Fest has changed, but the quality of music has not! Brandon Santini headlines and the opening acts are two of Omaha's BluesEd bands, Vertigo and The Redwoods. The event will be held on the football field at Dana College in Blair, NE. The gates open at 2:30. […]

The 11th Annual LOVAM Jazz Festival will be an amazing family festival, with FREE attendance. Grammy Award Winning Saxophonist, Gerald Albright is the headliner. Other musicians will perform and vendors will be onsite. Performers: Grammy Award Winning Saxophonist, Gerald Albright ~ headliner. Flautist, Althea Rene. Local Musicians Chad Stoner and the NOMA Ensemble with Dana […]

Admission: $15 collected at the door. No advance tickets for this show. Acclaimed Georgia blues rocker, singer and songwriter Tinsley Ellis will give a rare live acoustic performance at The Zoo Bar in Lincoln on Sunday, September 3, 2023. On his newly launched coast-to-coast tour entitled Tinsley Ellis - Acoustic Songs & Stories , Ellis […]

Join us at the legendary Zoo Bar for our First Monday Blues Jam! Bring your axe. Bring you sticks. Bring your harmonica. Play the Blues. And you know that, man! No cover charge.

More information @ septemberfestomaha.org

16% of all sales at all Shucks locations that day will be donated to the Pine Ridge Reservation Propane Fund.

Great local jazz musicians. Open stage for those that wish to sit in and play or sing. Music students welcome! No cover charge.

6-9pm (1 show/2 sets) with soulful singer-songwriter, Josh Hoyer.  $10 tickets.  See venue website for tickets and complete information:  jewellomaha.com

Soulful / Groovy / Moody / No Cover. The music and vibes continue to elevate with every show.

$10 cover charge.

Advance tickets available at ticketmaster.com. Blackberry Smoke is an American rock band formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2000. Over the past two decades, Blackberry Smoke has developed amassed a loyal fanbase, leading their last five full-length albums to achieve great chart success, including 2021’s You Hear Georgia, which reached #1 on Billboard’s Americana/Folk Albums chart. […]

Due to unexpected delays, the Here Come the Mummies show has been moved to The Admiral. Tickets for the show are still valid and can be used at The Admiral. For fans unable to attend the shows due to the change in venue, refunds may be requested until August 28th. Purchasers will be emailed directly […]

$10 cover charge

6:30pm & 8:30pm shows with Mitch Towne on piano, Tetsuya Nishiyama on guitar and Jeffrey Johnson on drums.  $15 tickets.  See venue website for tickets and complete information:  jewellomaha.com

Mouth of the South (Old Market) Blues Brunch now Saturdays & Sundays!

6:30pm & 8:30pm shows.  $15 tickets.  See venue website for tickets and complete information:  jewellomaha.com  

Doors at 3:00. $20 Advance Tickets. $25 Day Of Show. Advance tickets available at eventbrite.com.

$15 Advance Tickets / $18 Day Of Show. Advance tickets are available in person at The Zoo Bar and online at ticketweb.com. GA-20 clearly is on to something big. It’s a movement, a new traditional blues revival. The dynamic, throwback blues trio are disciples of the place where traditional blues, country and rock ‘n’ roll […]

Great local jazz musicians. Open stage for those that wish to sit in and play or sing. Music students welcome! No cover charge.

Concerts are free and open to the public. Come eat, drink & have fun! Food/drink available for purchase @ 5:00 p.m. Concerts @ 6:00 p.m. There will be some seating but guests are highly encouraged to bring their own lawn chair. Tours of Nebraska Innovation Studio, the makerspace located at NIC, will be offered @ […]

$18 Advance Tickets / $20 Day Of Show. John Németh is an American electric blues and soul harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. He has received five Blues Music Awards for Soul Blues Male Artist, Soul Blues Album, Traditional Blues Album of the Year, Instrumentalist - Vocals and Instrumentalist - Harmonica. He has recorded ten albums since […]

$10 cover charge. Centered around the vein of old-school country with a cosmic west coast twist, Kimmi Bitter and the Westside Twang are here to transport you on a retro journey into the year 1962 through their nostalgic original songs. “A disciple of previous decades of music, Bitter’s style fuses traditional country and Americana vibes […]

Santana tribute band plays outdoors for free event! Bring your chair and goodies!

The Wildwoods are an enchanting Folk/Americana trio based in Lincoln, Nebraska, whose flowing songwriting tandem has been praised by Paste Magazine as "focused and charmingly human". The Wildwoods' delicate melodies and descriptive lyrics come from nature, love, experiences from the road, and growing up in Nebraska. Comprised of husband and wife team Noah (guitar) and […]

Free & open to the public.

$10 cover at the door. Recently signed as a Sony Music Artist under Bad Jeu Jeu Records, Kelli Baker brings a sound unlike any other. Winner, Long Island Blues Challenge “Road to Memphis” 2022. ”When I put on Kelli Baker, I get transported into a world of fresh nostalgia. Her voice is like the legendary […]

Mouth of the South (Old Market) Blues Brunch now Saturdays and Sundays!

No Cover Charge!

Every Monday except the first Monday of the month. Hosted by Riley Agena. Providing a welcoming space for a Lincoln Performing Arts Showcase. Bring yourself and your ideas to gather, connect, create, and grow in Lincoln’s Historic Zoo Bar. This is a night for you to feature your talents and ideas in: Instrumental Music, Vocal […]

No cover charge.

Great local jazz musicians. Open stage for those that wish to sit in and play or sing. Music students welcome! No cover charge.

Concerts are free and open to the public. Come eat, drink & have fun! Food/drink available for purchase @ 5:00 p.m. Concerts @ 6:00 p.m. There will be some seating but guests are highly encouraged to bring their own lawn chair. Tours of Nebraska Innovation Studio, the makerspace located at NIC, will be offered @ […]

Free admission! Located in the Indian Village Shopping Center. Janet has been performing since the 1970's. She sings a wide variety of music, including classic country, country rock, American standards, patriotic, gospel, frontier period songs, tunes from the Big Band era, Czech music, and more.

Island music and Latin Jazz with Matt Wallace, Joey Gulizia and Michael Pujado.

$10 cover charge.

The Scott Moyer Band featuring Ed "the Funk" Munkers and Brent Vignery.

Doors at 6:00. $20 Advance Tickets. $25 Day of Show. Advance tickets available at sundayroadhouse.com. One way or another, Sarah Borges connects with casual mastery. Whether it’s with the comrades she’s collaborated with over nearly 20 sparkling years of music-making or the vivid portraits of people’s lives – and occasionally her own – she’s sketched […]

$12 cover charge. Igor Yuzov was born in Germany, raised in Ukraine and studied in Russia. He grew up in the former Soviet Union, where folk music was the norm and rock’n’roll was illegal. A rebellious streak, led him to seek out the forbidden music. As soon as it became possible, Igor left Russia for […]

$10 cover charge. "The soulful fury of this talented three-piece, the Travis Larson Band, washes the stink of the recording industry’s lame offerings out into the gutters while unleashing it’s unique brand of instrumental rock fusion (think of a musical stew mixing a thick brown Rush gravy with big hearty chunks of Steve Morse and […]

$20 Advance Tickets / $25 Day Of Show. Advance tickets are available to purchase in person a the Zoo Bar and online at ticketweb.com. On Friday, September 1, award-winning, internationally renowned blues-rock guitarist, singer and songwriter Coco Montoya will release Writing On The Wall, his sixth album for Alligator Records and his first release in […]

Doors at 6:00. Igor Yuzov was born in Germany, raised in Ukraine and studied in Russia. He grew up in the former Soviet Union, where folk music was the norm and rock’n’roll was illegal. A rebellious streak, led him to seek out the forbidden music. As soon as it became possible, Igor left Russia for […]

$12 cover charge. Blues and roots super-trio The Dig 3 throw down a set of steady-grooving, cliche-free tunes on their new, self-titled record The Dig 3. Released in September of 2022, The Dig 3 is the first album from this new alignment of blues and roots music heroes Andrew Duncanson (Kilborn Alley Blues Band) on […]

$15 cover in advance and day of show. Advance tickets available at waitingroomlounge.com or etix.com. Florida’s Gulf Coast has produced a plethora of distinctive musicians, from the blues of Tampa Red to jazz greats Cannonball and Nat Adderley to former Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts to The Outlaws. Tampa’s Damon Fowler, a masterful singer, guitar […]

$12 cover charge. Florida’s Gulf Coast has produced a plethora of distinctive musicians, from the blues of Tampa Red to jazz greats Cannonball and Nat Adderley to former Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts to The Outlaws. Tampa’s Damon Fowler, a masterful singer, guitar player and songwriter, has absorbed the best of and furthered the work […]

7:00pm show with soul pop vocalist, Austin Mitchell,  $15 tickets.  See venue website for tickets and complete information:  jewellomaha.com

Free admission! Located in the Indian Village Shopping Center. All Knowing McGill is an Americana band featuring Craig Beougher (vocals, guitar), Will McGuire (lead guitar), Chris Bowling (bass), Emma Nelson (fiddle, piano) and Nick Johnson (drums). Based out of Lincoln, Nebraska, their various musical backgrounds blend into a vibe that is certain to entertain. Craig […]

$8 cover charge.

Hub & Soul is a free event designed for people of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate local musicians, local food and Lincoln's parks. 21st and Q Streets at the Jayne Snyder Trails Center in Lincoln, NE. First Set / Brad Colerick and Sam Packard: California-based, Nebraska-bred recording artist Brad Colerick writes songs that seep […]