The 7th Annual Porchfest OMA is Sunday, October 1, 2023 from 12pm to 6pm. The festival will take place on 11 stages including Omaha Mobile Stage, the neighborhood market stage, six porches, a poetry porch, an art porch, and an open mic porch in Omaha’s Gifford Park Neighborhood at 33rd & California Street.

● Food and drink available for purchase from local food trucks and neighborhood vendors.

● Beer garden at California Bar next to/overlooking the market stage.

● Free parking is available at 36th & California Street.

● There is no fee to attend.

Poetry porch hosted by Zedeka Poindexter.

Open mic porch hosted by Mad Darling.

Thank you to our sponsors: Audio Visions, California Bar, and Gifford Park Neighborhood Association.

The Inaugural Porchfest OMA was held Fall of 2017. 18 bands and solo artists were hosted on 5 porches, and 10+ performers on the open mic stage. The 2018 event was postponed due to rain and ultimately canceled the next weekend due to snow, although we had 26 acts ready to perform. 2019 returned with 32 performances on 8 porches. 2020 was canceled due to the pandemic, 2021 returned with 20 performances on 10 stages, an open mic, and the addition of a poetry porch. Then 2022 topped us out with 70+ performers!

Porchfest began in 2007 as a small neighborhood festival in Ithaca, New York; it has now expanded to more than 100 partner festivals across the United States and Canada. The mission of the event is to celebrate the vital creative community through music and art. Entire neighborhoods of families and friends experience the free event every year.

Gifford Park is a diverse community in Midtown Omaha; it hosts an annual street festival (33rd Friday), a Farmer’s Market since 2008, offers a community garden and has sustained a neighborhood association committed to preserving and uplifting the community since 1988. It is the perfect home for Porchfest!

Porchfest OMA is an E3 Music Management production with the Gifford Park Neighborhood Association.