Shaun Johnson Big Band Experience’s Holly Jolly Holiday Tour

Norfolk is one of two Nebraska stops for the Shaun Johnson Big Band Experience’s Holly Jolly Holiday Tour. The Norfolk concert will be Saturday, Nov. 18. The other Nebraska concert will be in Omaha on Friday, Dec. 8.

With the potential to reignite a long-lost community spectacle, The Zone after-school program officials are preparing for the first rendition of a new fundraising event at the Johnny Carson Theatre in Norfolk this weekend.

The Shaun Johnson Big Band Experience, featuring an Emmy Award-winning Billboard top 5 artist and the former lead singer of Tonic Sol-fa, will perform a Jingle Bell Rock holiday concert and fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 18. Proceeds from the event will go to The Zone, a nonprofit organization providing seventh through 12th grade youths a place to connect with adult mentors, get homework help and build friendships.

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