About
Our Mission
Lincoln Calling seeks to celebrate creativity through artistic expression, community engagement, and environmental leadership.
History
Lincoln Calling is an annual, non-profit music festival that transforms the streets of downtown Lincoln, Nebraska into a weeklong celebratory explosion of the arts, culture, and the collaborative spirit tantamount to our city’s ever-ramping vitality.
In 2018, Lincoln Calling – which has thrived on featuring bands just before they break, while showcasing a diversity of genres, artists, and artistic disciplines since its inception in 2004 – drew more than 8,500 music lovers to downtown Lincoln, including patrons from 75 cites, 25 states, and 3 countries.
Over the past 5 years, Lincoln Calling has joined forces with long-running community events including Make Lincoln, YP Week and Startup Week bringing to the festival a 2-day Night Market/beer fest, The Lincoln Arts Festival, wellness activities, professional development workshops, and an acute focus on festival sustainability practices.
In 2019 and beyond, this music festival that highlights some of the country’s and state’s most exciting emerging artists, is only growing bigger and better. With more non-musical programming joining the fold, and killer headliners already confirmed, Lincoln Calling is on the cusp of securing a spot in the national music festival conversation.
Past Headliners
2018
japanese breakfast • waxahatchee • joey dosik • parquet courts • ron gallo • fantastic negrito • lion babe • leikeli47 • ought • ohmme • reyna • the nude party
2017
charli xcx • best coast • angel olsen • beach fossils • frankie cosmos • sandy (alex G) • pup • el ten eleven • john moreland • cupcakke • palehouse
2016
domo genesis • real estate • cloud nothings • twin peaks • Alan kingdom •
ceremony • gosh pith • hide • a giant dog • screaming females
2015
desert noises • head of femur • bandit sound • westside proletariat • josh hoyer and soul colossal • freakabout • universe contest
2014
sidewalk chalk • bailiff • deerpeople • the kickback • white mystery
2013
future islands • boy • jeremy messersmith • henhouse prowlers • hot buttered rum • allie kral of cormeal
2012
wolfgang gartner • Laetitia sadier of stereolab • ivan and alyosha • author and punisher • desert noises • hume
2011
larry and his flask • the kickback • lionize • gauntlet hair • uuvvwwz • the photo atlas
2010
roger clyne and the peacemakers • sea wolf • the hood internet • those darlins • the love language • the flatliners
2009
sleepy sun • the rosewood thieves • frontier ruckus • flowers forever • broken spindles
2008
pattern is movement • the killigans • the machete archive • tatsuya nakatani • cameron mcgill and what army
2007
head of femur • gito gito hustler • flobots • somasphere
2006
criteria • neva dinova • maritime • heiruspecs • the prids • 56 hope road
2005
tilly and the wall • orenda fink • david dondero • railbenders • legendary shake shakers
2004
for against • shanti groove • falconfive-0 • ad aspera per aspera • the architects
