Meadowlark Music Festival
Bringing a world of music to Nebraska
Happy Spring to all our Meadowlark artists, volunteers, donors and fans!
SAVE the DATE!
Saturday, May 10th 5:30-8:30 PM
Meadowlark presents Mardi Gras In May
You're invited to Mardi Gras in May, a special New Orleans celebration!
Join us to learn more about the upcoming 2025 summer season while enjoying swinging tunes performed by a pair of world-class vocalists accompanied by a jazz trio and savoring traditional New Orleans dishes and classic cocktails.
We look forward to more dynamic music-making in the coming year, as Meadowlark presents exciting family-friendly concerts and educational events by internationally renowned artists. This season will feature a 6X GRAMMY-winning French jazz violinist, a Brazilian double bill featuring classic and new takes on the Bossa Nova, and a brilliant former member of the saxophone sections of the Woody Herman and Louis Bellson bands pays tribute to his mentor, the legendary Stan Getz.
Suggested donation: $100 per couple
RSVP to: hans@meadowlarkmusicfestival.org
Meadowlark's summer season will present artists from France, Brazil, and the USA!
July 25th-27th, 2025
6X GRAMMY-winner French jazz violin virtuoso Scott Tixier returns to Lincoln – this time to perform with students from the Strings Alliance In Lincoln (SAIL) camp and a professional rhythm section in collaboration with the Lincoln Public Schools and UNL's Glenn Korff School of Music. The concert is planned for the newly renovated Kimball Recital Hall on the UNL campus.
A Brazilian Bossa Nova Celebration double-bill will be presented among the trees and under the stars in the fabulous Prairie Pines Nature Preserve. Sounds From Brazil will open the concert with classic Bossa Nova hits from Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Roberto Menescal and more. Sounds From Brazil will be followed by Looking for Johnny Alf. Johnny Alf was the stage name of Alfredo José da Silva, one the originators of Brazil's most famous genres, Bossa Nova. The program will feature a quartet of Brazilian musicians performing innovative arrangements from Alf's rarely heard catalog.
Saxophonist Greg Fishman will appear at Meadowlark for the first time, presenting his Tribute to Stan Getz. Greg has toured with many of the greatest names in jazz including Woody Herman, Louie Bellson, Slide Hampton, Clark Terry, Benny Golson, and many more. He has a particular fondness for his mentor, the legendary Stan Getz, and is considered an expert on his music having published three books of his solo transcriptions. A renown jazz pedagogue having authored over a dozen books, Greg will give a jazz saxophone workshop while he is in Lincoln and perform an evening of the music of Stan Getz across his illustrious career. The concert is planned for the newly renovated Kimball Recital Hall on the UNL campus.
Meadowlark presented the Amina Figarova Sextet with the Martsiko World Orphan Choir!
In November, 2024, Meadowlark presented a free concert featuring acclaimed jazz composer and pianist, Amina Figarova, in collaboration with the internationally renowned Matsiko World Orphan Choir. They gave an exceptional performance of music that has thrilled audiences across the United States in over 40 performances from New Orleans to Buffalo and Nashville to Chicago. Her sextet and the choir came together in March of 2024 to create a recording entitled Suite for Africa, and toured across the US from April through November.
Meadowlark was thrilled to be able to present this special concert as one of the last stops on their 2024 tour before the choir returns to Libera, Africa.
The 18 albums Amina Figarova released to date have made her one of the most admired composers in jazz. … The voices (of the Matsiko World Orphan Choir) are neither sweet nor soothing, they are clamorous and jubilant …. It sounds like love becomes music.
Thomas Conrad, Stereophile Magazine, September, 2024
Special thanks to our 2024-25 season sponsors and supporters including:
Nebraska Arts Council
Cooper Foundation
Woods Foundation
Farmers Mutual of Nebraska
Rhonda Seacrest Foundation
Ameritas
Pittenger & Anderson
Annabell Gardens
Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts
Glenn Korff School of Music & Dance
Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts
Meadowlark's Lark Society and you!
Donations are greatly appreciated!
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Meadowlark Gallery
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Pablo Aslan Tango Ensemble -
SYBARITE5 reception -
Meadowlark volunteers -
Winery concert -
Bass trio -
Gourmet Meadowlark picnic -
Portable Masterpieces -
Ellen Jewett -
Gala final bow -
Frank Proto Duo at Grand Manse -
Grapes at sunset with Meadowlark -
Meadowlark board and volunteers -
World premiere of Our Fathers -
15 piece Trinkle Brass Works -
Red Hats at Deer Creek
Join Us for the Sounds of Surprise
Come to a concert and hear something special…
Tango from Argentina
Radiohead played by a string quintet
Fireworks accompanied by 15 brass players
Beatles and Brahms performed by a cello quartet
Appalachian Folk Music with African percussion
Volunteer, donate, be a part of the Meadowlark Family and help us to continue the legacy of Nebraska's premiere summer chamber series, presenting artists from around the world in your backyard.
"The crowd stood and cheered at concert’s end as the sunset cast warm glows through the stained-glass windows
of St. Paul church. It was a grand conclusion for one of the best Meadowlark festivals in recent years." Lincoln Journal Star
1135 M St. Suite A
Lincoln, NE 68508