The 27th annual Nebraska Summer Music Olympics took place at the UNO Performing Arts Center in Omaha, NE, on July 18-19, 2008. NSMO honors its participants with trophies and medals according to their demonstrated level of performance before a qualified judge. The purpose of the Nebraska Summer Music Olympics is to encourage supervised summer study with the assistance of a teacher to accelerate a student's progress on a particular instrument.
Students from the Mapleton piano studio of Crista Else who performed at UNO were Michael Swanson from Mapleton, Nicole Weber from Mapleton and Alex Pulford from Oto. They all received a superior rating and a trophy. Congratulations to these fine musicians on a job well done.