Shaun Johnson Big Band Experience

2023 Holly Jolly Holiday Tour

Dec 8, 2023 - 7:30 PM Holland Performing Arts Center | Holland Music Club

Enjoy a swingin’ big band holiday experience of your favorite Christmas music! The Shaun Johnson Big Band Experience is a rare, newcomer to traditional pop — fusing a big band spirit with an inventive edge. 

Canceled - A Celtic Family Christmas

Curtain Warmer: Dowds Irish Dance

Dec 10, 2023 - 6:00 PM Holland Performing Arts Center

Experience Christmas with multi-award-winning Celtic musicians Natalie MacMaster, Donnell Leahy and their seven children! Join their family as they warmly invite you into their home, sharing their music, their personal life and Christmas traditions still honored and celebrated.

Lightwire Theater

A Very Electric Christmas

Dec 13, 2023 - 7:00 PM Orpheum Theater

Lightwire Theater’s A Very Electric Christmas is coming to Omaha! Audiences of all ages will treasure this magical and captivating tale of family, friendship and hope set to timeless holiday hits, including Nat King Cole, Mariah Carey and Tchaikovsky. Lightwire Theater is internationally recognized for their electroluminescent artistry, poignant story telling and performs in complete darkness.

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company - The Year of the Dragon

Curtain Warmer: VOX Dance Collective

Jan 19, 2024 - 7:30 PM Orpheum Theater

Immerse yourself in a festive production celebrating the biggest holiday in the world: the 2024 Lunar New Year of the Dragon. Choreographer Nai-Ni Chen has been making dances that bridge the richness of Asian artistic heritage and the dynamism of American dance for the past 30 years. Presented in collaboration with the Nebraska Chinese Association.

Black Violin

Curtain Warmer: Tylynn Music

Feb 13, 2024 - 7:30 PM Steelhouse Omaha

For nearly two decades, Black Violin has been merging string arrangements with modern beats and vocals and building bridges in communities along the way. Members Kev Marcus and Wil Baptiste first met in orchestra class at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, becoming classically trained on the violin and viola through their high school and college careers. Post-college, they reconvened to produce beats for South Florida rappers, and began building an audience in local clubs. They later went on to win Showtime at the Apollo in 2005, and eventually sold out headline performances at venues across the country, including a sold out two-night headline run at The Kennedy Center in 2018. NPR took note and declared “their music will keep classical music alive for the next generation.”

Wycliffe Gordon

Feb 23, 2024 - 7:30 PM Holland Performing Arts Center | Holland Music Club

Jazz Journalists Association named Wycliffe Gordon 2020 “Trombonist of the Year” for the record breaking 13th time, and he’s topped Downbeat Critics Poll for “Best Trombone” again for an unprecedented six times (2020, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2013 & 2012). Last year he was the recipient of the “Louie Award”, the International Trombone Award and the Satchmo Award, among others. Wycliffe is a prolific recording artist and is extremely popular for his unmatched signature sound, plunger technique and unique vocals. 

Kathy Tyree

& The Quincy Crouch Band

Mar 8, 2024 - 7:30 PM Holland Performing Arts Center | Holland Music Club

"Omaha's Own Queen of Soul" graces the Holland Music Club for a special performance! Come prepared for an evening of exciting and flawlessly performed music that will have you reminiscing, singing along, and dancing in your seat! Kathy is excited to share selections from a mixture of genres and eras that will take you on a musical journey you will never forget. Kathy will be accompanied by the incomparable “Quincy Crouch Band” lead by Ananias “Markey” Montague. This is a show you do not want to miss! 

Flip Fabrique: Blizzard

Curtain Warmer: Luminarium

Apr 2, 2024 - 7:00 PM Orpheum Theater

With Blizzard, FLIP Fabrique takes you on a crazy, poetic and gentle journey in the dead of winter, and invites you to lose yourself in a moment of complete wonder. With performers at the peak of their art and outstanding visual poetry, Blizzard promises to blow away everything in its path.

TAIKOPROJECT

Curtain warmer: Kyoko Taiko

Apr 6, 2024 - 7:30 PM Orpheum Theater

TAIKOPROJECT has astonished audiences worldwide since 2000 with their unique blend of traditional taiko & innovative aesthetics. Percussive power, dynamic music, and graceful choreography work together to weave a gorgeous narrative you’ll have to see (and hear!) to believe! 

Erth's DINOSAUR ZOO LIVE

Curtain Warmer: Omaha Children's Museum

Apr 12, 2024 - 6:30 PM Orpheum Theater

Marcos Eduardo's Latino Music Explosion

Apr 12, 2024 - 7:30 PM Holland Performing Arts Center

4 singers, 2 guitars, bass, drums, keys, 2 dancers, percussion; horn player.  Groove to the sounds & rhythms of the cumbia, bachata, norteño and other popular music from Latin America performed by some of South Omaha’s finest musicians!

Etienne Charles - Earth Tones

Curtain Warmer: Parfait

Apr 26, 2024 - 7:30 PM Holland Performing Arts Center

Etienne Charles is the Assistant Professor of Jazz Trumpet at Michigan State University. Hailed by The New York Times as "an auteur" (Ben Ratliff), by Jazz Times as "A daring improviser who delivers with heart wrenching lyricism" (Bill Milkowski). His latest recording, Creole Soul has received critical acclaim worldwide for it’s fusion of root grooves from the Afro-Caribbean.