July 24-Aug. 2, 2026

ABOUT

ABOUT

MUSIC FROM EVERYWHERE, RIGHT HERE

Since 2019, the Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival has celebrated the many cultural groups that call Nebraska home, through world-class performances, eye-opening workshops, transcendental jam-sessions and all kinds of other events that celebrate Nebraska’s unique cultural environment.

In just four seasons Crossroads has held over 50 concerts with music from numerous cultural groups with hundreds of artists from all over the world. The festival has also become a creative laboratory where exciting new projects that are born that go on to be performed all over the world, including most recently in New York and in Finland.

You can expect everything at this unique Nebraska-based festival from classical chamber music to hip-hop, jazz, indie-electronic, Hindustani classical and lots in between. Although you may never know what to expect, you can expect to leave transformed.

OUR TEAM

STAFF

ERIK HIGGINS // ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
OLGA SMOLA // EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

MATT ERB // BOARD PRESIDENT
BARBARA ZACH LEE // BOARD TREASURER
BRIAN SEIFFERLEIN // BOARD SECRETARY
HASAN KHALIL // BOARD MEMBER
SHEILA DORSEY VINTON // BOARD MEMBER
GABRIEL ESCALERA // BOARD MEMBER
OSCAR RIOS POHIRIETH // BOARD MEMBER
SARAH ROWE // BOARD MEMBER

Read our Annual Reports

See our past program booklets