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Horizon Music Fest Proclaim and Unite around the Gospel of Christ. Labor Day weekend, Gering Nebraska

Held on Labor Day Weekend, the vision of Horizon Music Fest is to host a free, world-class Christian Music Festival with artists, speakers, and family-friendly activities that offer Christian fellowship for the entire community.

1,175 hours.That's the approximate number of hours our volunteers put in between Friday and Monday of festival weekend. ...
10/01/2026

1,175 hours.

That's the approximate number of hours our volunteers put in between Friday and Monday of festival weekend. Four days, setup before a single car pulled in, parking, greeting, the kids' area, merch tables, and cleanup long after the last song.

And that count is volunteers only. It doesn't include the hours our Board put in. It doesn't include the HorizonServe team. It doesn't include The Great Commission Alliance. Add all of it together and we're pushing somewhere around 2,000 hours of donated time, for one weekend, in one small corner of western Nebraska.

We say "free admission, free parking, all ages" on every post we make. This is what makes that sentence possible. Not a budget line, people. Neighbors who took time off work. Families who served together. Folks who stood in the sun directing traffic so somebody else could walk in and worship without paying a dime.

If you wore the blue shirt at Horizon 2026: thank you. You built this.

And if you watched this year and thought I'd like to be part of that, you can be. We're already working on next year, and volunteer sign-ups will be announced on this page first.

horizonmusicfest.org

Thirty-seven names. One free weekend. That's the whole math.Thank you to our 2026 Bronze and Supporter sponsors and to e...
09/16/2026

Thirty-seven names. One free weekend. That's the whole math.

Thank you to our 2026 Bronze and Supporter sponsors and to every in-kind partner who gave time, equipment, signage, ice, coffee, fencing, internet, a stage crew or a truck. Some of you wrote a cheque. Some of you showed up with a trailer. It all counted the same.

A&A Porta Potties · Alarm Security Technicians · Allstate – Michael Engelhaupt · B12 Creations · Blue Ladder Renovations · Cameron Cardwell · Celli's Cycle Center · Classic Aviation · Complete Marketing and Media · Cornerstone Coffee · Ferguson Agency · Fresh Foods · Gering Family Dental · Ideal · James and Joni Worden · Jess Pilkington Memorial · John & Megan Massey · Kevin & Deb Patterson · Klein Family Trucking · Mackenzie Westphal Photography · Main Street Market · Novus · Pepsi · R8 Productions · Reganis Auto · Sam Adams · Sanders Fencing · Sarah Devi · Scottsbluff Screen Printing · Security First Bank · Sharla Dowding · Storage Management · Summit Christian · Todd & Annie Boggs · Twin City Party Rentals · VistaBeam · Whiting Signs

See you next Labor Day weekend.

Fifteen businesses decided a free festival was worth paying for.Thank you to our 2026 Silver sponsors. Free admission, f...
09/15/2026

Fifteen businesses decided a free festival was worth paying for.

Thank you to our 2026 Silver sponsors. Free admission, free parking, eight national Christian artists across two days, none of it reached a family at the gate, because these names covered it first.

Alli Lacey McGuffey Charitable Fund · Blackburn Cattle Co · Edward Jones – Mike Petko · Floyd's Truck · Kilthau Transports · Lighthouse Electric · Luna Bean · Ole' · Oregon Trail Eye Center · Outpatient Radiology · Quivey-Bay State Foundation · Riverstone Bank · Runza · Team Auto Center · Windhorst Family

Support them the way they supported this.

Western Nebraska takes care of Western Nebraska.Thank you to Schiff Farms, a 2026 Gold sponsor of Horizon Music Festival...
09/14/2026

Western Nebraska takes care of Western Nebraska.

Thank you to Schiff Farms, a 2026 Gold sponsor of Horizon Music Festival. Free admission, free parking, two days of national Christian artists, and a whole lot of lawn chairs on a hillside in Gering.

None of it cost a family a dollar. That was the point, and they helped make it one.

Somebody has to go first.Dustin & Becky Jones were 2026 Gold sponsors of Horizon Music Festival. Gold-level support is w...
09/13/2026

Somebody has to go first.

Dustin & Becky Jones were 2026 Gold sponsors of Horizon Music Festival. Gold-level support is what lets the word FREE stay on every poster we print, and it stayed there all weekend.

Thank you both.

The people who take care of this valley all year were standing in the crowd like everyone else.Thank you to Scottsbluff ...
09/12/2026

The people who take care of this valley all year were standing in the crowd like everyone else.

Thank you to Scottsbluff Surgeons, Dr. Hertzler, Dr. Holloway, Dr. Hughes, Dr. Latowsky and Dr. Wolen, 2026 Platinum sponsors of Horizon Music Festival.

Eight national artists across two days, and not one person paid to get in. That was partly them.

"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." — Colossians 3:16Our 2026 Platinum ...
09/11/2026

"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." — Colossians 3:16

Our 2026 Platinum sponsor put that verse in the name they chose to be listed under. Then they backed it with two days of free worship at Five Rocks.

Thank you to the Holliday Foundation Colossians 3:16.

09/10/2026

That's a wrap on Horizon 2026. 🌅

Sunday opened with the Sunday Worship Service, Kenny Hampton speaking, worship led by Jamie Kimmett. Then the evening lineup: Evan Craft, Bodie, Tasha Layton, and Rend Collective closing out the entire weekend under the Nebraska sky.

Two days. Eight national artists. Completely free, free admission, free parking, every age welcome. That's what Horizon is, and it only works because of the people who make it happen.

To everyone who drove in, brought a lawn chair, volunteered in the parking lot or the kids' area, and sang along until the last song, thank you. This is your festival.

Now here's the part you'll want to pay attention to: we're already building next year. Another lineup of national artists, another weekend under the western Nebraska sky, and still completely free. If you were here this year, you know why that's worth planning around. If you missed it, this is your heads up to not miss it twice.

Follow this page and keep an eye out for the next Horizon event. It's the first place the dates and the lineup will go, and you'll want the jump on it.

horizonmusicfest.org

A stage is just steel until somebody stands on it.Thank you to B&C Steel Corporation, a 2026 Platinum sponsor of Horizon...
09/10/2026

A stage is just steel until somebody stands on it.

Thank you to B&C Steel Corporation, a 2026 Platinum sponsor of Horizon Music Festival. Platinum support is what put a real stage and a real production in a field in Gering, and kept the gate free for every family who walked through it.

Eighty years in this valley, and they spent a weekend of it on us.

The field at Five Rocks is empty now. Here's who filled it.Platte Valley Bank was the 2026 Presenting Sponsor of Horizon...
09/10/2026

The field at Five Rocks is empty now. Here's who filled it.

Platte Valley Bank was the 2026 Presenting Sponsor of Horizon Music Festival, and the reason both headliners were on that stage. Cochren & Co closed out Saturday. Rend Collective closed out Sunday. Nobody paid a dollar to be there.

Two days, eight national Christian artists, free admission, free parking, all ages, under an open Nebraska sky. That doesn't happen unless somebody decides it should.

Thank you, Platte Valley.

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