Evan Bartels with Jennifer Van Meter at Bird's Nest Listening Room

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Tickets are nonrefundable unless show is cancelled.

Show starts at 7:00pm. Doors will open at 6:00pm.

On a lone stretch of highway that cuts across the Nebraskan prairie there is a town called Tobias. This village of roughly 100 souls is where Evan Bartels was born and raised. It’s a place that offers immeasurable freedom, while threatening a life of unanswered wanting. Here the sentiment behind his work was forged.

The ethos of Bartels’ life and songwriting are one and the same:

“To think, to feel, these are the things that make us human. To hone those thoughts, to share those emotions, to marry them with action, that’s when art is born.”