🔥 Playing with Fire – Encore Weekend | Friday Night, 15 August | Event in Omaha | AllEvents

🔥 Playing with Fire – Encore Weekend | Friday Night

Playing With Fire Concert - Omaha

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Fri, 15 Aug, 2025 at 05:00 pm

Slowdown

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Fri, 15 Aug, 2025 at 05:00 pm (CDT)

Slowdown

729 N 14th St, Omaha, NE 68102-4702, United States

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🔥 Playing with Fire – Encore Weekend | Friday Night
📍 Slowdown, 729 N 14th St, Omaha
🕔 Doors open: 5:00 PM | Music starts: 6:30 PM
🎟️ FREE – All Ages | Optional Guaranteed Admission ($25)

Our Encore Weekend kicks off with a Friday lineup stacked with award-winning talent and international energy.

😎 ARTIST LINEUP🔥

6:30 PM – Hector Anchondo (Omaha, NE)
Winner – 2020 International Blues Challenge (IBC) Solo/Duo.
A soulful hometown favorite returns with an intimate solo acoustic set that blends Delta roots, heartfelt lyrics, and masterful slide guitar.

7:50 PM – Ben Poole (Brighton, UK)
British Blues Awards Nominee – Best Male Vocalist, Best Guitarist, Best Songwriter.
This genre-bending British guitarist/vocalist fuses blues, rock, and soul with fiery intensity and finesse. His July set brought the crowd to their feet—now he’s back for more.

9:20 PM – KING KING (Glasgow, Scotland)
UK Blues Band of the Decade | 3x UK Blues Band of the Year
Led by charismatic frontman Alan Nimmo, with brother Stevie, King King delivers a powerhouse performance filled with blistering guitar, Hammond organ, and gritty, soulful vocals.

Here's the rest of your want to know:
🧡 All Playing with Fire Summer Concerts are FREE Entry
- All Ages Welcome.
- Slowdown for 21 yrs and under entry policy: https://theslowdown.com/all-ages/

The Slowdown is a limited-capacity (650) music venue with a lot of space!
- Want to guarantee your admission inside? No Problem.

👉 Slowdown offers a $25 admission option per show, inclusive of sales tax and processing fee for each show available up until one week before the show date at: https://theslowdown.com/events/
- All proceeds help support Playing with Fire’s mission.

🪑Seating for all attending is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Tables and chairs on the main floor and balcony.
- 'Leaning' Hi-top tables and plenty of dance floor space in the 'Pit' front of stage.
- Handicap service is accommodating.
- Venue does not accommodate personal chairs to be brought into the venue.

🍷🥤All beverages available for purchase.
🍕🌮 Attendees are welcome to bring food into the venue;.
- Coolers are not allowed.
- No pets are allowed.

Join us Friday to light the fuse on an unforgettable Encore Weekend!

🎁 Don’t Forget the Merch! CASH is King!
- Every artist this weekend has brought limited-edition merch—CDs, vinyl, shirts, and more.
- Grab the merch to remember the night and support the artists who help keep PwF’s fire burning.
- 100% of artist merch sales go directly to the artist.
- Artists manage their own credit apps.
- Swing by the merch table between sets—and don’t wait till the last song!

🎸 BluesEd Fundraising Initiative
- Win a handcrafted Wood Spirit Guitar—drawing live on Sat, Aug 16!
- Raffle tickets at the show: 1 for $5 / 5 for $20. You can't win if you don't play!
- All proceeds support the BluesEd youth program.

The grand finale of PwF 2025—don’t miss this unforgettable night!

🔗See PwF's entire season lineup and more info at www.playingwithfireomaha.net

🎧 Check out PwF 2025 Artist Spotify Playlist → https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4e7Gio3gutxL8l3hOFv2Qh?si=QqrXE5CLQR-aCwgkM66ZAg

🎧 YouTube Playlist → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCdLeZsz3G4ep8utkdra6JV_bYiOp1h2A

#PlayingWithFire2025 #PwFJuly #OmahaConcerts #HectorAnchondo #BenPoole #KingKing
#FreeSummerMusic #LiveMusicOmaha #BluesRockLive #GlobalMusicStage #SupportLiveMusic #SummerNightsOmaha #PwF21Years #FestivalVibes


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🔥 Playing with Fire – Encore Weekend | Friday Night, 15 August | Event in Omaha | AllEvents
🔥 Playing with Fire – Encore Weekend | Friday Night
Fri, 15 Aug, 2025 at 05:00 pm