The Freed Center for the Performing Arts

Each season more than 30,000 people come to ONU’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts to enjoy superb entertainment, including well know headliners such as the hard rock, Irish jig-funk band The Prodigals, CeCe Winans, Rockappella, Don McLean, Kathy Mattea, and jazz great Ellis Marsalis.

The Freed Center is also the venue for at ten theatrical productions, many with international guest artists and directors, and upwards of forty instrumental and voice performances each season. Many guest artists, instrumentalists, and theatre and dance companies conduct master classes and perform onstage along with students.