Fourteen Concerts On Sale This Week in Omaha and Lincoln
Pre-sales start today for many, most on sale Friday, and some on sale now. Direct links included to actual ticket sites to avoid scammer sites.
M. Ward coming to The Waiting Room is a pretty big deal. He has had a critically acclaimed solo career, was a member of Monsters of Folk with My Morning Jackets Jim James and Omaha’s own Conor Oberst, and is also a member of She & Him with Zooey Deschanel. This should be one of the signature shows of the fall here in town. I am most excited about Leslie Stevens, though. Her 2019 album Sinner remains in rotation on my turntable, and she just followed it up this year with an incredible self titled album. If you want a taste, pull up the new song “Big Time, Sucka,” and I think you might get hooked. Tickets for the show go on sale Friday HERE.
Grammy winners Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have a new album, her first of original material since 2011, coming out this August. It will be great to see the duo again and this has to be the biggest room we here in the area have seen them at. Many have been treated to some very cool and intimate shows from the duo over the years here in town. I am excited for this one. Tickets on sale Friday HERE
Next year will be a decade since Indiana band Houndmouth hit is big with their album Little Neon Limelight and the song “Sedona”. The band has continued to put out albums including the excellent 2021 release Good For You that had a killer single on it “McKenzie”. The band are considered a must see live act and you can check them out by getting tickets on Friday HERE.
Brad Tursi is from country band Old Dominion. Big country band. Brad just announced his Parallel Love and will be performing at Barnato on October 19th. Not a show to hold off getting tickets to. They are on sale HERE
Last year, John Vincent III put out Songs For The Canyon, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed breakthrough album Songs From The Valley. That album had the song “Lincoln NB” on it, and I really want to correct him on the state abbreviation. Beautiful song. He just released a new song, “Never, No Not Once,” this past week and announced a tour, and you can get tickets on Friday HERE
Pop out and enjoy the finer things with the GANG GANG when Chicago trap artist Polo G and BossMan Dlow hit the Pinnacle Bank Arena on October 3rd for homecoming week. Tickets on sale Friday HERE
Country a cappella group Home Free from Mankato, Minnesota, won the TV show The Sing-Off ten years ago, but they have been putting out music long before that. They have pumped out close to twenty albums, including a gaggle of Christmas releases. They will perform tracks from those releases at The Holland Center on December 4th. Tickets go on sale Friday HERE
Hillbilly Casino from Nashville, Tennessee, will be at the Zoo Bar on August 19th. The venue says, “If you like Nikki Hill, the Paladins, the Mezcal Brothers, and Billy Bacon... Hillbilly Casino is a rockin' combination of all of these bands, with an occasional dash of honky tonk and Motörhead thrown in." Tickets on sale HERE
All of the bands have been announced for the 2024 Punk Rock BBQ at Reverb Lounge, and the headliner was announced today. It is legendary Canadian hardcore band Dayglo Abortions. That band started in 1979 and has the distinction of being the first band to be charged with obscene material in the Supreme Court of Canada. If you have never heard them, throw on Out of the Womb, that still hits today. Tickets for the show can be bought HERE.
I told my Faster Pussycat story from when I was a teenager when they played Lincoln early this year. Maybe I will tell it again the week they come to The Waiting Room. Crazy thing is I have tried to see them three times in the last ten years and something always happens. Hopefully the fourth time is a charm and I will get to see the classic hair metal band again on August 30th. I have no idea what Taime Downe and his current band sounds like these days, but the set lists I see online are chock full of the songs I want to hear. Tickets on sale HERE
It has been a minute since we have heard from Sierra Hull on a recording. Her last album was 2020. It’s not like she hasn’t already accomplished so much, getting signed at age 13, having a number two Billboard Bluegrass album at 16, and she has released a string of acclaimed albums since then. Maybe she has something new coming out or is just touring. Either way, you will be in for a fantastic show on November 13th at Bourbon Theater. Tickets on sale HERE
Bedroom pop and soul artist Quickly, Quickly from Portland will be at Reverb Lounge on November 3rd. Pretty cool stuff. Tickets on sale HERE
Andrea Von Kampen returns to Omaha on the Sister Moon Tour to perform at Benson Theatre on September 4th. Tickets on sale HERE
Detroit rapper Veeze struck gold last year with his album Ganger and he will bring that tour to Steelhouse Omaha on November 21st. Tickets go on sale Friday HERE