🔥 Playing with Fire – Encore Weekend | Friday Night
Schedule
Fri, 15 Aug, 2025 at 05:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Slowdown | Omaha, NE
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📍 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
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#FreeSummerMusic #LiveMusicOmaha #BluesRockLive #GlobalMusicStage #SupportLiveMusic #SummerNightsOmaha #PwF21Years #FestivalVibes
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Where is it happening?
Slowdown, 729 N 14th St, Omaha, NE 68102-4702, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
