My Dream, My Passion, My Vision

Four years ago I moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and fell in love with the local live music scene. It all began at The Cask, where I worked as a bartender and became enthralled with the live music we had every Friday and Saturday. My involvement in local live music grew into friendships with the musicians, booking music, managing musicians, creating and running an open mic night, and lastly, creating a business centered around helping local musicians and music-related ventures with social media, marketing, and promotion.

Through my experience with local live music in Lincoln, as a music fan, working in venues as a bartender/booking agent/event planner, and on the musician’s side of things as a manager, I developed a dream to create a music venue that was centered around supporting local artists, paying artists a decent wage, respecting artists, having the best sound possible, and as a result, creating an incredible live music experience for fans through our focus on having very happy artists.

I found a home for my vision at the Night Owl Pub when I struck up a business partnership between myself, with Storm Media Management, and the owner, Chris Rosiak. I relocated my open mic from The Cask to the Night Owl, purchased over $1000 worth of equipment, named my open mic Lincoln Open Mic Night, and took over booking music at the Night Owl, all in the span of a few weeks. Things are going REALLY well! But we NEED more equipment!

Because the Night Owl Pub is so focused on supporting all things local—local breweries, local musicians, local writers, local artists—I’ve decided to help speed the equipment purchase and installation along by calling on local people to support this mission. The goal here is to raise enough money to purchase the rest of the equipment we need to have stage lighting and all sound permanently placed, ready for an artist or band to plug in, and a sound booth for professional sound engineers to operate. 

What We Need and What You Get

Sound Equipment:

FRONT OF HOUSE

Behringer X32 Digital Mixer, Grundorf 12U rack case, DBX 1231 Graphic, EQ
DBX 266XL Compressor/Gate I/O Cable

Power Cables, Shorty XLR Cables,
12 Channel Snake, 6 Channel Snake (back line)
(3) DBX Compressor/Gates + cabling (2) Dual channel 15-band EQ's +cabling

STAGE & SOUND

AC Mains, Spekon to 1⁄4 cables mains, AC Subs, Spekon to 1⁄4 cables, AC Drum Wedges, Daisy chain speaker cables, Yamaha BR15M, Spekon to 1⁄4 cables (monitors) Rack for power/etc. (static) Crown XLS 802
Crown CE1000

Crown CE 4000
Power Cables, 1) Crown 402, 602, or 802XLS + cabling (1) Power Conditioner/Sequencer
(1) DBX 3way Stereo Crossover + cabling FOH signal cabling

***If you're into Lincoln history, the system being purchased here is from the old Duggan's Pub and it's kind of a nice passing of the torch from one historical music venue to another working on making history.

LED Stage Lighting

The first order of business is going to be getting all of the sound equipment in, so even if the goal isn’t reached, what money is raised will be going to the sound equipment first, stage and lighting second.

If we exceed the goal, the extra money will go to sound engineers, additional sound equipment, and other things needed to enhance the live music experience for everyone!

What you'll get is an incredible new home for live local music and art here in Lincoln!

The Impact

I have a much larger vision for the Night Owl Pub than just creating a new live music venue. I’m taking my love of our local music here in Lincoln to a new level with my business, Storm Media Management. I’m taking photo and video of the artists and writing about them in my blog. I’m building a YouTube channel full of amazing local talent and I plan to use my increasing knowledge of social media to spread the word far beyond Lincoln.

The Night Owl Pub is my home base, and has all the ingredients necessary to create a new music scene here in Lincoln. A great music venue can do that. The timing couldn’t be better as Lincoln is becoming recognized as a music city while simultaneously losing a great deal of live music venues (most recently Knickerbockers and The Cask to name a few.)

We have an AWESOME team working to bring all of this together. The Night Owl has a very enthusiastic, hard-working owner in Chris as well as Red Rebel Media building a killer website for The Night Owl and running social media promotional efforts, and then there’s me with all my drive and passion running Lincoln Open Night through Storm Media Management.

We’ve already created an awesome green room, which is about to have its walls lined with black and white, signed posters of all our “green-room-worthy” local artists who’ve played The Owl. It looks like something straight out of Rolling Stone magazine and we are already imagining photos of bands chilling on the L-shaped couches surrounded by all the black and white, signed posters.

Risks & Challenges

There’s no risk here, just the challenge of getting all the tools we need to grow at a faster rate with the help of the community than we’d be able to accomplish on our own. If you’re a musician, music-lover, a writer, an artist, or an art-lover, then it’s beneficial for you to jump on board and throw a few dollars into this campaign, because we’re creating a home for you guys! 

Other Ways You Can Help

You don’t have to contribute financially in order to help! Helping get the word out by sharing this campaign page or just showing up and/or bringing people to the launch party Saturday, March 19^th is a HUGE contribution to this cause!

You can share this campaign page across any social media platform or just tell people about it!

I want to send a HUGE THANK YOU to those who have already shared my posts about this campaign as I was in the process of creating it, to those who have already signed up to help in the launch party creation, as well as promises to donate, and THANK YOU in advance to all those who will be contributing over the course of the campaign! Love to YOU ALL!