An Evening with Madeleine Peyroux

Madeleine Peyroux Program Book 

Curtain Warmer:

A play and panel discussion with Mary O'Keefe and guests Cynthia Taylor and Jennifer Novak-Haar inspired by the music of Madeleine Peyroux. 
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Socially distant seating available in the Orchestra Circle

Much like songbird Edith Piaf, Madeleine Peyroux spent her teenage years busking the busy streets of Paris, which now can be heard in her intimate, laidback style of folk-pop songwriting coupled with spellbinding jazz. Audiences can expect to hear tunes from her album Anthem, classics from her extensive back catalogue, originals and much-loved covers. 

Boz Scaggs: Out of The Blues Tour

Boz Scaggs brings his Out of the Blues Tour to Omaha! This legendary singer-songwriter fuses jazz, R&B, rock n' roll and a whole lot of blues. Scaggs' global, five-decade career includes several Top 40 hits and a Grammy®. Scaggs is set to perform the hit tunes from his Grammy®-nominated album Out of the Blues. These melodies showcase his energetic vocals and gritty guitar in renditions of classic blues songs. He covers the greats such as Bobby "Blue" Bland and Jimmy Reed. Backed by a gifted band, Scaggs will also perform new originals and many of his greatest hits. Songs include: "Lowdown," “JoJo” and "Lido Shuffle.” 

Straight No Chaser

Straight No Chaser returns to Omaha with the “Back in the High Life” tour! The all-male a cappella group is celebrating their return to live shows with their take on “Leave The Door Open,” the smash hit by Silk Sonic, aka Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak. Come enjoy this new song, tracks from last year’s album Social Christmasing as well as a mix of brand new arrangements and fan favorites!

Hip Hop Nutcracker

A holiday mash-up for the whole family, The Hip Hop Nutcracker is back and better than ever! The Hip Hop Nutcracker is a contemporary dance spectacle set to Tchaikovsky’s timeless music. A unique and joyful event, this evening-length production is performed by a supercharged cast of a dozen all-star dancers, a DJ, a violinist, and MC Kurtis Blow, one of hip hop’s founding fathers, who opens the show with a special performance. 

Leslie Odom Jr.

Leslie Odom, Jr. is a multifaceted, award-winning vocalist, songwriter, author, and actor. His holiday show will feature music from his newest Christmas Album with both original songs and the holiday tunes we all know and love, such as "O Holy Night," "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas," and "Last Christmas." 

Joyful Noise: A Gospel Christmas featuring Salem Baptist Church Choir

Celebrate the season with Omaha’s own Salem Baptist Church choir! The beloved Christmas tradition returns with holiday classics and new music. 

"Holiday Stomp" with The Hot Sardines

Ring in the holiday season at “Holiday Stomp” with The Hot Sardines! Full of brass and dazzle, the hot jazz band will infuse yuletide classics with their unique and swinging sound. Fun arrangements of holiday tunes include: “White Christmas," “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney" and “Please Come Home for Christmas.” 

Shayna Steele

One of the greatest singing sensations of our time, known from recordings with Snarky Puppy and Moby and a host of other stars, Shayna Steele takes flight on her third album, “Watch Me Fly.” Offering six self-penned originals and four select classics ranging from Soul via Blues and Gospel and easily crossing over to retro R&B and Jazz, showcasing Shayna Steele’s supremely soulful energy, as well as her mind-blowing vocal artistry and songwriting skills. 

Flip Fabrique: Six°

FLIP Fabrique is a circus company based in Québec, Canada, born out of the dreams and the friendship of six world-class circus performers. Together they combine astonishing feats, acrobatic comedy and a mystery to engage audiences in the fun.

m-pact

Hailed "one of the best pop/jazz vocal groups in the world" by the San Francisco Chronicle, m-pact is respected worldwide as a cutting-edge trailblazer in the realm of vocal music. Emerging from an age of auto-tune and overproduction, this Los Angeles-based ensemble has cultivated a new generation of ears hungry for the fresh, raw power of nature's "first instrument" - the human voice. 

The Secret Life of Bears with carnivore ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant

Rae Wynn-Grant has dedicated her life to ecological research and conservation. As a scientist with National Geographic Society’s Last Wild Places Initiative, she works to protect and restore iconic wildlife populations, including North American black and grizzly bears. But when the wild lands of their habitat are crisscrossed by roads, fences and ranches, how can bears and humans coexist peacefully? Dr. Wynn-Grant intends to find the answer.

Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

Arturo O'Farrill has expanded the definition of Afro-Latin music. The pianist, composer and educator along with his band are world-class musicians playing jazz music that is exciting and listenable — and an unmatched live experience! 

Sankofa Danzafro

Showcasing powerful Afro-Colombian and Afro-contemporary dance with live music and singing, Colombian dance troupe Sankofa Danzafro presents “Accommodating Lie,” a full-length work by Rafael Palacios which seeks to dismantle stereotypes and beliefs about and around the black body and what it means to be of African descent.   

In a series of emotional solos and duets, seven Sankofa dancers embody decades of slavery, racism and the “exotic” label western colonizing culture has assigned to black bodies.  

Enter The Haggis

Since 1995, Enter The Haggis have led the charge among Celtic Folk Rock bands, delighting fans with their memorable performances, inspired songwriting, musical proficiency and high-quality recordings. The Toronto-based band has released eight acclaimed studio albums, the most recent debuting at #9 on the U.S. national Billboard Heatseekers charts. Their original songs such as “One Last Drink,” “Down With The Ship” and “Gasoline” have become folk rock anthems, appearing in films such as “Goon,” “10mph” and “Addicted to Plastic,” and reaching as high as #25 on U.S. radio. 

Improbable Ascent with paraclimber Maureen Beck

With her trademark humor and wit, world champion paraclimber and 2019 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Maureen Beck will share how a little creativity and a whole lot of grit and determination have propelled her to the top of her field as she chronicles her adventures as a one-handed athlete.   

Madagascar The Musical

Join Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria as they bound out of the zoo and onto the Orpheum stage in this live musical spectacular! This smash hit musical features all of your favorite crack-a-lackin' friends as they escape from their home in New York's Central Park Zoo. Along the way, they find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien's Madagascar. 

Las Cafeteras

Born and raised east of the Los Angeles river, Las Cafeteras’ Afro-Mexican beats, rhythms and rhymes deliver inspiring lyrics that document stories of a community seeking love and justice. Using traditional Son Jarocho instruments like the jarana, requinto, quijada (donkey jawbone) and tarima (a wooden platform), Las Cafeteras use music as a vehicle to build bridges among different cultures and communities and create “a world where many worlds fit”. 

LA Times described Las Cafeteras as “uniquely Angeleno mishmash of punk, hip-hop, beat music, cumbia and rock … live, they’re magnetic.”  

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies

Farofa

Celebrated as a pivotal new sound on the Brazilian and World Music scenes, Farofa delivers a passion-filled, electrifying performance of traditional rhythms blended with modern stylings and influences. Their signature sound is amplified by an eclectic collection of ideas and inspirations drawn from rock, jazz, contemporary classical, pop, deep African rhythmic tradition and, above all, from the entire musical universe of their native Brazil.

Chicago Plays The Stones

Deadliest Lifesavers with biomedical scientist Zoltan Takacs

The Earth’s deadliest animal venoms are a source of a number of lifesaving medicines used to treat everything from heart attacks to diabetes. Yet there are millions of venom toxins in nature that remain unexplored. Biomedical scientist and inventor Zoltan Takacs collects snake, scorpion, jellyfish, and other venoms from around the world. Back in the lab, using cutting-edge genomics, he creates combinatorial venom libraries to identify leads for novel medicines. 

Emmaline

Emmaline (rhymes with clementine) is a 22-year-old vocalist, violinist and songwriter possessing a smoky, jazz-infused, genre-fluid voice admirable as much for the range of traditional sounds she draws upon, as for her startling freshness—fresh, as in new and innovative as well as in attitude and sly humor. Her songs are bold in statement and soft in feel, her flow supple and precise. She prides herself in being one who has listened with deep intention to her heroes—Anita O’Day and Billie Holiday, Erykah Badu and D’Angelo—and has already learned to rise above questions of category with a healthy sense of musical identity and forethought. 

SNAP, Magic! Re-invented!

Poof! Presto! Snap! Playing with space, time and the otherworldly, this eclectic ensemble of South Korean illusionists will boggle your mind with their impressive powers of prestidigitation. Mixing dexterous sleight of hand, vaudevillian comedy and ingenious visual effects, SNAP conjures a marvelous, magical cabaret perfect for the whole family.

An Evening with Lisa Fischer