Back for the sixth year, FAMFest Arts & Music Festival brings outstanding performing and visual arts to Central Nebraska. Contact Us

Malcolm Dalglish
sponsored by the Nebraska Arts Council Malcolm Dalglish is a choral composer and director, hammer dulcimer, spoons, bones, and chin music virtuoso who presents programs of original folk choir and dulcimer music, stories, mime, rhyme, rhythm, and song.  .Malcom will also be directing this year's community choir. Find out how you can join the fun!    FAMFest Community Choir

 

Ellen McIlwaine
Sponsored by the Hamilton County Foundation, Ellen's career spans some forty years with appearances across the Globe: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Japan. She is known for her Blues-World-Hybrid renderings and her Vocal Acrobatics: she is a legendary Slide Guitar Player. She has lots of great stories to tell and puts on a great show.

Visual Artists

Artists statewide come to participate in Aurora's FAMFest celebration.  Housed in a large open tent on the courthouse lawn, visual artists from glass-blowers to carvers to painters to quilters display their work and provide live demonstrations as they create.

Are you an artist?
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Real Live Theater

Come listen to the language of Shakespeare set in 2008 in the Midwest. Rich and powerful ranchers feud with urban stockbrokers in this timely tragedy about the relationship of love and hate.

Are you an actor?
Get more information on auditioning
 

Hands-On Activities

Aurora's FAMFest Arts and Music Festival is the place for unique learning opportunities. In addition to a tent full of demonstrating artists, FAMFest offers fun arts activities for children of all ages. Watch this web site for schedule of activities.