DAVID HUCKFELT LIVE + IN-PERSON @ THE SYDNEY
Advertisement
David Huckfelt (formerly of The Pines)
Live @ The Sydney - Fri, August 7th
7pm doors // 8pm music
Folk troubadour David Huckfelt makes his first ever solo appearance in Omaha for this one-night-only intimate performance of new songs, newer stories, old grace & true grit at The Sydneys on Friday, August 5th @ 8pm.
David Huckfelt is a singer/ lyricist / activist whose performances and songs of no-spiritual-surrender have earned him a devoted following from small-town opera houses & theaters to national festival stages like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Edmonton and Calgary Folk Fests, and the legendary First Avenue mainroom. An Iowa native and former theology student, Huckfelt weaves story, song, poetry, grit and grace together with improvisational mastery, sharing stages with artists as diverse as Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris, Bon Iver, Gregory Alan Isakov, Trampled By Turtles & more. In 2018 he received the Artist-In-Residence award at Isle Royale National Park on Lake Superior, where in sixteen days he wrote the fourteen songs that would become his breakout solo debut “Stranger Angels”. In 2012 he met American Indian Movement leader & poet John Trudell on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and their subsequent collaboration resulted in the song “Time Dreams”, hailed by Democracy Now! and the last recording Trudell made before passingAn early encounter and collaboration with legendary Native American poet John Trudell introduced Huckfelt as friend & partner to an array of Indigenous artists & activists including Keith Secola, Louise Erdrich, & Quiltman. He also served as both director and performer at the “Water Is Life” Music + Resistance festivals in Duluth, MN with Ani Difranco, The Indigo Girls, and his music appears in the ground-breaking television show “Dark Winds” on AMC. His new record “I Was Born, But…” is a record of other artist’s songs & was released in January 2026, with a new record of all original material set for late 2026.
Live @ The Sydney - Fri, August 7th
7pm doors // 8pm music
Folk troubadour David Huckfelt makes his first ever solo appearance in Omaha for this one-night-only intimate performance of new songs, newer stories, old grace & true grit at The Sydneys on Friday, August 5th @ 8pm.
David Huckfelt is a singer/ lyricist / activist whose performances and songs of no-spiritual-surrender have earned him a devoted following from small-town opera houses & theaters to national festival stages like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Edmonton and Calgary Folk Fests, and the legendary First Avenue mainroom. An Iowa native and former theology student, Huckfelt weaves story, song, poetry, grit and grace together with improvisational mastery, sharing stages with artists as diverse as Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris, Bon Iver, Gregory Alan Isakov, Trampled By Turtles & more. In 2018 he received the Artist-In-Residence award at Isle Royale National Park on Lake Superior, where in sixteen days he wrote the fourteen songs that would become his breakout solo debut “Stranger Angels”. In 2012 he met American Indian Movement leader & poet John Trudell on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and their subsequent collaboration resulted in the song “Time Dreams”, hailed by Democracy Now! and the last recording Trudell made before passingAn early encounter and collaboration with legendary Native American poet John Trudell introduced Huckfelt as friend & partner to an array of Indigenous artists & activists including Keith Secola, Louise Erdrich, & Quiltman. He also served as both director and performer at the “Water Is Life” Music + Resistance festivals in Duluth, MN with Ani Difranco, The Indigo Girls, and his music appears in the ground-breaking television show “Dark Winds” on AMC. His new record “I Was Born, But…” is a record of other artist’s songs & was released in January 2026, with a new record of all original material set for late 2026.
Advertisement
Where is it happening?
The Sydney, 5918 Maple St,Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.
Host or PublisherDavid Huckfelt
