Friday LIVE
Latest Episodes
The Nebraska Jazz Orchestra, the Brothers Doobie, Whooping Cranes and more...
01/16/2026 | 57m
Extra: The McGovern String Band
01/15/2026 | 14m
UNO Faculty Jazz Combo, the Lux, Nebraska Anime Fest, and more
01/09/2026 | 57m
Extra: Jun Kaneko: Paintings & Prints
01/08/2026 | 10m
Extra: Cantare! Omaha
12/29/2025 | 15m
Extra: Ryan Chandler and Dr. Raoul Carlo (Miggi) F. Angangco
12/22/2025 | 20m
The 2025 Holiday Special
12/19/2025 | 58m
Extra: Ingrid Griffin and Lucas Hoge.
12/18/2025 | 22m
Andrea von Kampen, music in Henderson & Lincoln, and Tim Moran.
12/12/2025 | 1h 1m
Extra: Nutcracker and two choral holiday concerts
12/11/2025 | 18m
Extra Extra: The Canadian Brass
12/05/2025 | 7m
Booker T. Mattison, Edgerton 30 years, The Disassociates & more!
12/05/2025 | 58m
Extra: Bell-issimo, and Abendmusik and NWU concerts
12/04/2025 | 17m
Extra: Omaha Community Playhouse, NJO, and Abendmusik
11/25/2025 | 14m
Yorkshire, John T. Price, The Fab Four and more...
11/21/2025 | 57m
Extra: Emerging Visions at Hastings College
11/20/2025 | 7m
David Boye, Jeff Black, McGovern String Band and more...
11/14/2025 | 1h 7m
Extra: Quilt Museum, UNL Opera, NE Rep, and Lincoln Playhouse
11/13/2025 | 53m
Julia Williams, ArcoStrum, Chuck Schroeder and more...
11/07/2025
Extra: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, LSO & LFCM
11/06/2025 | 34m
Anvil Orchestra, Hastings 100, Drew Bohlke, GBR and more...
10/31/2025 | 59m
Extra: Prairie Arts Center and Nebraska Chamber Players
10/30/2025 | 17m
Polyphony, Dia de Muertos, Carson 100 and more...
10/24/2025 | 1h 1m
Extra: Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Naegele
10/23/2025 | 24m
Philip Daniel, Rascal Martinez, Annabelle Wilson and more.
10/17/2025 | 1h 1m
Extra: LAFTA, OmniArts Nebraska and Zahn McClarnon
10/15/2025 | 31m
Zahn McClarnon, LCP, Moscovich tech poetry and more...
10/10/2025 | 54m
Extra: Missing Persons Day, Stuhr Museum, Communities Playhouse
10/09/2025 | 29m
Pivot, Karen Blessen, Eleanor the Great and more...
10/03/2025 | 57m
Extra: Theatre Roundup
10/02/2025 | 12m
Akropolis, Robert Russell, La Dolce Vita & more from Ron Hull
09/26/2025 | 1h 6m
River Selby and Ross Media Arts Center
09/25/2025 | 33m
Dan Whitney, Tosca Lee, LSO and more...
09/19/2025 | 59m
Extra: Dan Whitney
09/18/2025 | 17m
Director Ivy McDonald, Tony Fitzpatrick, Nebraska Storytelling & More
09/12/2025 | 58m
Extra: Robert Owens Centenary Festival.
09/11/2025 | 8m
First Friday from The Mill with Bob Hall, Linda Pawlenty & more!
09/05/2025 | 59m
Extra: David Moscovich
09/04/2025 | 13m
Extra: Kate Beecroft's East of Wall
08/29/2025 | 11m
BJ Jamison, Riké, Julia Williams, Bianca Swift and more...
08/22/2025 | 1h 1m
Extra: The Most Unlikely Place
08/21/2025 | 8m
Naegele, Francie and Finch, Allen, Thorne, Jarana and more...
08/15/2025 | 1h 8m
Extra: Omaha Community Playhouse
08/14/2025 | 16m
Chautauqua, Abby E. Murray, WallSpace-LNK and more...
08/08/2025 | 1h 0m
Extra: The Lux Center for the Arts and Impact Nebraska Artists
08/07/2025 | 17m
Crossroads Music, Flatwater Shakespeare, Yorkshire and more...
08/01/2025 | 58m
Extra: Art Roundup
07/31/2025 | 31m
Crossroads, Meadowlark, Ed Ruscha, Brownville and more...
07/25/2025 | 1h 0m
Extra: 1st Nebraska Volunteers Brass Band
07/24/2025 | 11m
Sean Lebita, Root Marm, Daniel Christian and Laura Gregory
07/18/2025 | 1h 2m
Extra: Lincoln Community Playhouse and North Platte Pow Wow
07/17/2025 | 22m
Angels First Flight, Liederkranz Live and more...
07/11/2025 | 1h 1m
On the Jan 16th, Friday LIVE, Genevieve Randall and guests have lively conversations about:
- a photographer's journey to document the Whooping Crane,
- New York Polyphony and its upcoming show at the Lied Center,
- how the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra is celebrating 50 years of Big Band Music,
- and what it's like to bring the Doobie Brothers' music, from cover band, The Brothers Doobie.
You will also hear poetry by Greg Kosmicki, along with a report on the Omaha Chamber Music Society's 2026 Heritage Series.
This week on Friday LIVE Extra, a conversation with members of the McGovern String Band about an upcoming gig in Grand Island, and finding the beauty in bluegrass.
During a 2018 show, Jayne Lynch finds herself with Lincoln Symphony Orchestra’s Ed Polochick and the cast from Madcap Puppets.
Bela Fleck
The Czech Band
Lewis Black
Nebraska’s astronaut, Clay Anderson, marvels at his own book, “Ordinary Spaceman.”
Audience fills up the chairs at a Friday LIVE road show hosted by the Knight Museum in Alliance.
Friday LIVE in Alliance
Andrea von Kampen
Lathan and James run tech at Lewellen show
Michael Fitzsimmons plays a kind of melodic hand drum called the “hang” (rhymes with “long”) on Friday LIVE.
Talbott Brothers sing on Friday LIVE
Talbott Brothers interview with Genevieve
Johnny Carson CEMA Show guests
Ed Love, Genevieve and James Valentine
Genevieve interviews Gabriel Kahane
Filmmaker Kalyanee Mam
Mark Jones and Rex Miller play in Lewellen
Susan Werner
Violist Clark Potter and harpist Katie Wychulis from Nebraska Chamber Players perform a duo at the Lied Center.
Ukulele master and composer Jake Shimabukuro is interviewed by Genevieve at The Mill ahead of his Lincoln concert.
Composer William Bolcom
Genevieve shakes hands with the service dog of an artist with traumatic brain injury.
Simone Dinnerstein
Ted Kooser
Mandolin player Avit Avital warms up before a show from the Ron Hull studio.
Tempest Storm and Nimisha Mukerji
Trumpet Trio at Innovation Campus show
Salut Salon plays at our studio
Folk and bluegrass band Gracie’s Uncles play at the Minden Opera House.
Singer songwriter Hope Dunbar plays an original on a Friday LIVE at the Nebraska Public Media studios.
Singer songwriter Mark Jones
Singer songwriter Dustin Prinz
Genevieve Randall hosts Friday LIVE
Sylvain and Francois Rabbath
Members of UNL percussion ensemble Nebraska Steel jam out on original music by one of their members.
Steel drums from Nebraska Steel
Dan McCarthy sings “Oh Nancy” at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum on Friday LIVE.
Genevieve at Quilt Study Center
Cowboy poet Lyn Messersmith poses in front of a wall mural depicting a typical sandhills ranch scene.
Old Pals Quartet in Scottsbluff
About The Show
Friday LIVE is a weekly arts and humanities program hosted by Genevieve Randall on Nebraska Public Media's News / Classical radio station. The program currently broadcasts on Fridays at 10 a.m. CT. If you have questions about Friday LIVE or have arts or humanities events to pitch, please email us at Friday LIVE.
If you can't catch the show live, it is available later the same day on demand, or you can subscribe to the podcast for Friday LIVE.