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Mid June: Formula SAE Lincoln [18] Tuesday evenings in June: Jazz in June [19] Third Friday in June, July and August: Dock Stock [20] Late June: International Thespian Festival; [21] Trail Trek [22] July 3: Uncle Sam Jam [23] Second half of July: Cornhusker State Games (multi-location event) [24] Early August: Lancaster County Fair [25]
The Lied Center for Performing Arts (/ l iː d / LEED; [2] frequently shortened to Lied Center or the Lied) is a multi-venue performing arts facility in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. It opened in 1990 on the southwest edge of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's City Campus. The main stage at the Lied Center has a seating capacity of ...
Lincoln has had a thriving music scene since the 1950s. Lincoln's Zager and Evans hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks with their song In the Year 2525 from 1969. Zager and Evans met at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Starting in the late 1970s, with the coming of the punk movement there has been and remains an explosion in rock ...
Organized by the International Thespian Society, it was held annually in late June on the campus of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska until 2020. [1] [2] In 2022, its first in-person year after the COVID-19 Pandemic, the International Thespian Festival was held at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. [3]
The Sandhills Global Event Center has been recognized both locally and regionally: State of Nebraska Tourism Development Award for Ag Tourism (2018) [12] Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Tourism Development Award (2018) [13] Lincoln Journal Star Inspire Award Finalist (2018) [14] Bullfighters of America (BOA) Indoor Event of the Year (2019)
In 2007, the City of Lincoln completed a study of five potential sites for a 12,000-seat, $50 million arena and identified its preferred location in the West Haymarket near the Lincoln Main Post Office, approximately a quarter-mile southwest of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's City Campus.
Since Pinnacle Bank Arena opened in 2013, Lincoln's music scene has grown to the point where it is sometimes called a "Music City". [136] [137] [138] Primary venues for live music include Pinnacle Bank Arena, [139] Bourbon Theatre, Duffy's Tavern, and the Zoo Bar. The Pla-Mor Ballroom is a classic Lincoln music and dance scene with its in-house ...
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has their first basketball game at the new arena in November. [59] 2014. On May 22, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln demolished the former Cushman Motorworks building. Built in 1913 and purchased from Textron in 2003, UNL demolished the building without any notice and without demolition permits from the city.