A concert held at a homeless shelter is somewhat unusual, but there's a special connection for the artist.

"If it isn't for the demons that come crawling all the time, blurring the lines between wrong and right." In a way Hannah McNeil, a singer/songwriter from Nashville, has come home.

“There's nothing like to get to sing for real people and for those who are overcoming. We are all doing it."

On this day she's performed for the women and children who found shelter at the Stephen Center at 28th and Q streets. "My mom and dad started the Stephen Center,” says McNeil. “I was a little girl. They wanted to make a difference in this world and they saw a need so they started the Stephen Center."

It was 1984 and Sharon and Dick McNeil wanted to make a difference so they took a south Omaha bar and turned it into a place to help the poor and homeless.

"From an early age, I think trying to make a difference, it was really important and my mom and dad showed me that."

That's why her stop in Omaha brought her music to a shelter instead of a club. "I'd rather do that all day than have people pay $50 a ticket to come.” Giving back, one song at a time.

The Stephen Center says there were 60-75 people who listened to the concert and they seemed to enjoy something different at the shelter.