Back for the sixth year, FAMFest Arts & Music Festival brings outstanding performing and visual arts to Central Nebraska.
Audiences come from farther afield each year to hear the music, wander through the artists' tent, participate in hands on activities and for the first time this year experience real live theater.FAMFest is located in Aurora, Nebraska at exit 332 off Interstate 80. View map
Malcolm Dalglish
Ellen McIlwaine
SCHEDULE
Noon - 5:00 Kids Hands-On Art Noon - 7:00 Fine Art Pavilion 2:00 - 4:00 Live Theater 4:00 Local Musicians 5:00 Community Choirs 6:30 Malcolm Dalglish 8:00 Ellen McIlwaine 4 - 7 pm BBQ Feed 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.
Malcolm will also be directing this year's 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.
Fine Art PavilionArtists 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.
Aurora Area Artisans
Georgia Arroyo
Karen Chittick
Carol DeVall
Mike Hubert
Jon Moore
Patty Scarborough
Two Sisters Bead Co.
Christine Wright
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.
Limited seating, doors close at 1:55.
This play contains themes of violence and death. Not recommended for children under 10.
First Christian Church basement, 11th & L St
Kids Hands-On Art ActivitiesAurora'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.
