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Sandeep Das on tabla and Rajib Karmakar on sitar performing at the Omaha Showcase during the 2023 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
Maeve Gilchrist performing on harp at the 2023 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
Cuban band Mixed Harmony performing onstage at the 2024 Omaha Showcase during the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival, viewed from behind the performers
Audience members enjoying an evening DJ set by Olga Smola at the 2021 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival in Lincoln
Percussionist John Hadfield performing in Kinan Azmeh and Layale Chaker’s “Dawning” for two soloists and orchestra at the 2023 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival in Lincoln
Musicians taking a bow at the finale concert of the 2022 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival in Lincoln
Maeve Gilchrist and Seamus Egan performing together at the 2023 Omaha Showcase during the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
The 2023 Omaha Showcase concert at the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival under a vibrant, illuminated stage canopy
Ron Blake on baritone saxophone and John Hadfield on percussion performing at the 2024 Omaha Showcase during the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival, with Blake featured on a large video screen behind the stage
Olga Smola, violinist and Executive Director of Nebraska Crossroads, applauding fellow musicians during the 2023 Omaha Showcase
Violinists Olga Smola and Nicole Sauder performing at sunset during the 2024 Lincoln Showcase at Antelope Park, part of the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
Festival ensemble performing the world premiere of Valeri Tolstov’s “La Folia Global” in Lincoln at the 2023 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
Yezidi band Golden Studio performing an outdoor concert at the 2022 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
Percussionists from the Cuban band Mixed Harmony performing at the 2024 Omaha Showcase during the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
German experimental trio toecheter performing live at the 2023 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival’s Omaha Showcase
Member of the Kytasty family bandura ensemble performing in traditional attire at the 2022 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
Musicians perform beneath a vivid light display at the 2023 Omaha Showcase during the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and violinist Aisslinn Nosky performing together and interacting onstage during the 2022 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
Alina Kuzma singing as part of the Women’s Bandura Ensemble of North America during the 2019 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
Musicians gathered in a circle for a jam session during the 2019 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
Chamber musicians performing together during the 2022 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
Maeve Gilchrist performing on harp at First-Plymouth Church in Lincoln during the 2021 Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival
John Hadfield and Ron Blake performing onstage at the 2024 Omaha Showcase during the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival, viewed from the audience
Singers performing a choral work during the 2024 chamber music concert at the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival in Lincoln

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November 23, 2025

by Erik Higgins, Artistic Director (ehiggins@NebraskaMusicFest.org)  Thank you for a great 2025! Dear friends,   Summer seems a long way away now that the leaves

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