NMM Live! | Luis Sanchez
Friday, March 6th 2026 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
National Music Museum
414 E. Clark St
Vermillion, SD
For over three decades, pianist Luis Sanchezhas maintained an active career as soloist, collaborative artist, and teacher. He has appeared in concerts in the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia. He is currently Professor of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Dr. Sanchez joined the Steinway Artist Roster in 2012. In May 2021, he joined the Frances Clark Center for Piano Pedagogy as Director of International Initiatives.
Praised for his artistry, dazzling technique, and inspiring performances, Luis Sanchez has presented recitals and master classes at Steinway Hall in London, Birmingham Conservatoire (UK), Sala delle Muse at the Teatro Petruzzelli (Bari, Italy), Chiesa di Sant’Agnese in Agnone (Rome, Italy), National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), the Grieg Academy (Bergen, Norway), the Norwegian Academy of Music (Oslo, Norway), Hangyang University (Seoul, South Korea), the Piano Concert Series International (Louisiana), and throughout the United States. He has also been featured soloist with the Orchestra of New Spain (Dallas), The Texarkana Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ball State Symphony Orchestra, and the Texas A&M University-Commerce Wind Ensemble.
Luis Sanchez enjoys a successful teaching career. Current and former students have been recipient of prizes at national and state competitions including the Texas Music Teachers Association Performance Contest, the National Young Musicians Showcase Competition, the Muncie Symphony Junior Concerto Competition, the Tuesday Musical Club Young Artist Competition in San Antonio, The UT Arlington Competition Festival, among others. Additionally, his students have been accepted at numerous summer programs including Piano Texas, Chautauqua Piano Program, Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, International Masterclasses and Festival in Moulin d’Ande (France). He thoroughly enjoys teaching a diverse group of students from different corners of the United States as well as from Venezuela, Colombia, China, Bulgaria, Russia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Colombia, and South Korea. Since 2014, he has frequently joined the faculty of InterHarmony International Music Festival in Germany and Italy.
He has been a frequent presenter at the Texas Music Teachers Association Convention, Music Teachers National Association, the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society Conclaves, the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, and national and regional College Music Society conferences. Dr. Sanchez has served as an adjudicator for numerous competitions and festivals, throughout the United States and internationally.
Equally at home with the fortepiano and the modern piano, Dr. Sanchez pursued further studies in fortepiano and XVIII century performance practice with Malcolm Bilson, Andrew Willis, and Liv Glaser (Oslo, Norway). In 2012, he was commissioned to write an article on Phil Belt (American builder of fortepianos) for the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and Early Music America.
Born in Argentina, Dr. Sanchez holds degrees from the National Conservatory of Music “Carlos López Buchardo” and Ball State University. His teachers include Ana Litovsky-Grunwald, Graciela Beretervide, Robert Palmer, and Rebecca Penneys.
The NMM Live! Series is made possible by the USD Student Government Association and the South Dakota Arts Council through the Department of Tourism, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
This event will be livestreamed at https://www.nmmusd.org/nmm-live-video
Handel Farms Gelbvieh and Red Angus Bull Sale
Friday, March 6th 2026 - 1:00 pm
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Location:
Platte, SD
Handel Farms
Sandmeier Charolais Annual Bull Sale
Friday, March 6th 2026 - 1:00 pm
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Location:
Bowdle, SD
Sandmeier Charolais
NMM Discovery Saturday
Saturday, March 7th 2026 - 10:30 am - 11:30 am
National Music Museum
414 E. Clark St
Vermillion, SD
Jam with us at the National Music Museum! Bring your little ones to Music Storytime on the first Saturday of each month at 10:30 a.m. for fun, music-filled storytelling led by Museum Educator Anna Van Kley. Designed for ages 3–6, this free monthly program invites children to explore rhythm, melody, and imagination—sponsored by the M.A. Martin Everist Foundation.
Vermillion Children’s Choir Concert
Saturday, March 7th 2026 - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
National Music Museum
414 E. Clark St
Vermillion, SD
Celebrate Discovery Saturday at the National Music Museum with a free concert by the Vermillion Children’s Choir on March 7 at 2:00 p.m. in the NMM’s Janet L. Wanzek Performance Hall and features young singers from the Vermillion area under the direction of David Holdhusen and Gretchen Burbach.
Free event
I-29 BULL RUN 2026 Production Sale
Saturday, March 7th 2026 - 4:00 pm
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Location:
Worthing, SD
I-29 Bull Run
Night at the Races
Saturday, March 7th 2026 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Chamberlain Community Center
112 N Main St
Chamberlain, SD 57325
Come to Chamberlain Community Center on Saturday, March 7th for a Night at the Races! Happy Hour will begin at 7 with the races starting at 7:30. These virtual horse races are a fundraiser for the Oacoma, Chamberlain, Pukwana Community Foundation (OCP). You have the opportunity to purchase a horse in the race. This gives you naming rites for the horse and the jockey! Admission at the door will give you fun money to bet on horses in each race. You may purchase one seat or a table of 8 for a group of friends. Make the night more fun by dressing for the races. There will be light snacks and a cash bar available. For more information contact Melissa Hutmacher 605-730-0079, Chantel Kriel 605-730-1893, Sheena Larsen 605-730-1902, Bradee Pazour 605-730-1046, or Jeff Tveit 605-730-0553.
“Drowning in Dirt” traveling exhibit Feb 2-April 30 at Mead Museum
Monday, March 9th 2026 - 12:00 am
Mead Museum
82 Mickelson Drive
Yankton, SD 57078
Traveling Exhibit Opening at Mead Museum
Feb 2 through April 30
Drowning in Dirt:
Joseph Hutton and the Dustbowl
A soil scientist’s quest to save the farmer by preserving the land
Joseph Hutton, one of the first soil scientists of South Dakota, brought a new concept to the state: not all soil was the same. And different soils required different farming practices in order to be sustainable.
When Hutton arrived at South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now South Dakota State University) in 1911, he studied the negative effects of farming practices of the day which depleted the soil nutrients and caused erosion.
Hutton’s views on soils were a contradiction to common knowledge at the time, and he predicted the dust Bowl 20 years before it happened!
This exhibit utilizes Hutton’s photography, poetry, speeches, and research notes to illustrate the devastation the drought had on farmers of the 1920s and 1930s in South Dakota through the eyes of a soil scientist.
The exhibit will feature Yankton County Artifacts from the 1930s.
“Drowning in Dirt” traveling exhibit was created in 2022 by the South Dakota Agricultural Museum of Brookings in partnership with the SD Humanities Council.
The Mead Museum is open Monday-Saturday noon to 4pm. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for 65+ and $5 for youth. Mead Museum members are free.
Mead Museum
82 Mickelson Dr
Yankton, SD 57078
https://www.meadbuilding.org/exhibits
February 2-April 30th, 2026
Open Monday-Saturdays noon to 4pm
2 Tracts Of Land Located In East Orange TWP, Sioux County, Iowa
Tuesday, March 10th 2026 - 10:30 am
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Location:
Granville, IA
Zomer Company Realty & Auction
156 Acres – Ward County, ND
Tuesday, March 10th 2026 - 11:00 am
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Location:
Minot, ND
Pifer’s Auction & Realty
