Holland Center Outdoors
Live music is returning to HCO this summer! Join us on the Holland Center's east lawn where we'll feature live performances May - October showcasing a variety of national touring and local performing artists. You can purchase tickets to enjoy live music outside while enjoying summer evenings with food and drinks from O-pa's food services and catering.
These events are rain or shine and tickets will be available on Ticket Omaha.
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Masks required.
From large outdoor Folk and Bluegrass festivals, to sold-out shows opening for Southern Rock icons like The Marshall Tucker Band or Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mountain Heart has become one of the more versatile musical acts ever assembled, winning multiple International Bluegrass Music Association Awards (IBMA).
The Metropolitan Area Youth Jazz Orchestra (MAYJO) is an auditioned group of the finest high school students from the Omaha area. MAYJO performs concerts at UNO and in the community including featured slots at UNO's Great Plains Jazz Festival. MAYJO students have the opportunity to work closely with UNO faculty, professional musicians from Omaha and guest artists and clinicians that have included Benny Golson, Peter Erskine, Jim Pugh, Eric Marienthal, Stefon Harris, Kris Berg and many others. MAYJO members have been recognized in the Downbeat Student Music Awards and are regularly selected for NAfME All-National ensembles and Nebraska All-State bands and orchestra. This event is free of charge, donations will be accepted at the door to benefit the UNO Jazz Program.
This is a free event, but free-will donations will be accepted at the door to benefit the UNO Jazz Program.
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Masks required.
First appearing in 2014, Smith & Myers was created as an acoustic side project from one-half of multiplatinum band Shinedown, featuring front man Brent Smith and guitarist Zach Myers. Delivering a mix of covers from artists such as Neil Young and Post Malone as well as heartfelt originals, the duo issued their double album in two parts, Smith & Myers Volume 1 and Volume 2.
This show will be sold without capacity restrictions, masks required.
Vinyl Hampdin is an all-star super group made up of Grammy and CCMA award-winning artists. You’ll hear powerhouse covers of Chicago, Tower of Power, Stevie Wonder, Blood, Sweat and Tears and much more.
This show will be sold without capacity restrictions, masks required.
America’s favorite Yacht Rock tribute band!
Led by 3-time Grammy® nominee, Kevin Sucher, The Docksiders bring their tribute act of your favorite soft rock songs of the 70s and 80s – now known as Yacht Rock – covering artists like Michael McDonald, Olivia Newton-John, Hall & Oats and Air Supply.
Masks required.
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Over the course of 10 years, comedian Iliza Shlesinger has gone from winning NBC’s Last comic standing to premiering her 5th Netflix stand-up special UnVeiled in November 2019, where she delves into her journey of getting married. Her past specials include War Paint, Freezing Hot and Confirmed Kills. Iliza’s last Netflix special in 2018, Elder Millennial, is the subject of Iliza Shlesinger: Over & Over, her “fan-u-mentary” which is currently streaming and gives fans an inside look into what goes into the making of one of her specials.
This show will be sold without capacity restrictions, masks required.
Southern Avenue’s performances have electrified live shows in over a dozen countries and wowed audiences at festivals such as Bonnaroo, Firefly, Electric Forest and Lockn’ with their boundary-breaking Memphis soul/blues/R&B fusion music.
This show will be sold without capacity restrictions, masks required.
Best known for winning Season 13 of American Idol, Caleb Johnson and his band The Ramblin’ Saints soulfully and bombastically take us to the church of rock ‘n’ roll with his new album, Born From Southern Ground. The album showcases Johnson’s Southern roots, as he channels a spirit that combines gospel, blues and rock ‘n’ roll into a modern but timeless sound.
This show will be sold without capacity restrictions, masks required.
Best known for their song "Novocaine" which has topped the Alternative Songs chart with over 23 million streams, The Unlikely Candidates is an indie rock band out of Fort Worth, Texas formed by childhood friends Kyle Morris and Cole Male. Eventually expanding the lineup to include guitarist Brenton Carney, bassist Jared Hornbeek and drummer Kevin Goddard, the band signed on with major-label Atlantic and released their debut EP, “Follow My Feet” including a hooky new single in “You Love Could Start a War,” which made a strong showing on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart.
This show will be sold without capacity restrictions, masks required.
Hailed as “Midwestern rock heroes” by American Songwriter, Red Wanting Blue has spent the last twenty years establishing themselves as one of the indie world’s most enduring and self-sufficient acts, notching appearances everywhere from Letterman to NPR and reaching #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, all while operating largely outside the confines of the traditional music industry.
This show will be sold without capacity restrictions, masks required.
The Alternate Routes is an American rock band from Bridgeport, Connecticut. They released four EPs, including their debut This Is When from 2003, as well as The Watershed. Besides, The Alternate Routes issued six studio albums, including Good and Reckless and True, and Nothing More, as well as numerous singles. Alternate Routes have been wowing audiences for over a decade, and have had songs featured in the Sochi Winter Olympics as well as NCIS.
This show will be sold without capacity restrictions, masks required.
The Brooklyn, NY based brass rock band Huntertones is a high energy, horn-driven sound like no other, melding jazz, funk, rock and soul. Individually, members of Huntertones have compiled a diverse resume of collaborations with top artists like Jon Batiste, O.A.R., Stevie Wonder, Andy Grammer, Ed Sheeran, Gary Clark Jr. and more.