2025-2026 Concert Season
October 19, 2025 – UNO Strauss Performing Arts Center – 7:30 PM
December 7, 2025 – UNO Strauss Performing Arts Center – 3:00 PM – with the UNO University Band
March 1, 2026 – UNO – 3:00 PM – with the Middle School All-Stars
April 26, 2026 – Burke High School – 3:00 PM – with Beveridge Middle School
Summer Concerts with NWS Swingtones
June 7, 2026 – St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church – time TBD
July 3, 2026 – TBD
All NWS concerts are free and open to the public.
Your generous donation along with those of businesses, playing members, and our friends throughout the Omaha area make this possible.
Thank you for supporting NWS and helping us continue to provide free concerts!
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Giving Tuesday – December 1, 2025
We thank our generous donors for supporting us during Share Omaha’s Giving Tuesday!
Our thanks to SHARE Omaha for continuing to sponsor this giving event.
Visit our SHARE Omaha page
Your donation helps us purchase new music, replace and repair large equipment, pay our dedicated part-time staff, cover rehearsal and performance venue fees, and support special programs such as our Middle School All-Stars. Thank you for your generous support of the Nebraska Wind Symphony, Omaha’s Community Concert Band!
SHARE Omaha’s Mission is to help nonprofits achieve their missions by inspiring support and serving. Their goal is to change the giving culture of the metro area.
NWS Scholarship Program
The 2025 NWS Memorial Scholarship Competition is complete for 2025. Scholarships of $1,500 and $1,000 were awarded to:
Benjamin Prentice – Senior Trombone student at University of NE at Kearney
Kade Duering – incoming freshman F Horn student at University of NE at Omaha
See our scholarship page for more information about the competition and how to apply.
Your financial support help us to continue to provide financial resources to young people who participate in post college/university music programs. To support our scholarships, make a gift to NWS in honor of or in memory of a loved one or special friend. On our giving platform, select NWS Scholarship Fund and indicate who you would like to honor or remember with this donation. Or just make a donation to this fund because you like to help the development of young musicians.
Thanks to the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment for their grant support of concerts during each season.
Thank You! for Supporting NWS!
NWS relies on financial support from its playing members, concert patrons, and businesses and individuals from around the Omaha metropolitan area. These gifts help us to pay for rehearsal and concert venues, music director and other part-time staff salaries, new music purchase and rental, performance rights, insurance, replacement equipment, and so many other things.
Read the NWS Sponsor/Advertiser/Donor Letter of 2024.
Consider providing your financial support of NWS through one or more of these methods:
Direct Donation – Sponsor a Concert – Purchase a Program Advertisement – Giving Programs can fund us through your purchases – ShareOmaha Events
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