Friday LIVE
Latest Episodes
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
Extra: Zoofest and Norfolk Arts Center
07/10/2025 | 20m
Extra: Curious Nebraska and Fourth of July Events
07/02/2025 | 23m
Vetter World, OmniArts, Concerts on the Creek and more...
06/27/2025 | 1h 3m
Extra: An exhibition at Blue Cat Gallery in Wayne.
06/26/2025 | 11m
Kiechel/WallSpace, PAC speakers, Neb Storytelling and more...
06/20/2025 | 1h 6m
Extra: Music Roundup
06/19/2025 | 9m
From the Old Mill in Valentine
06/13/2025 | 1h 10m
Extra: Harp retreat, Mural Festival and Greenblatt & Seay
06/12/2025 | 29m
Buffalo Commons, Community Players, Brownville concerts & more!
06/06/2025 | 1h 3m
Extra: Olde Glory Theatre
06/05/2025 | 6m
On the Dec. 5 Friday LIVE at 9:59 a.m. CT from The Mill in Lincoln's Historic Haymarket Genevieve Randall and guests have lively conversations about:
- events by filmmaker Booker T. Mattison
- Deck the Halls concert by Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra
- Michael Bird and Lincoln’s homegrown improv team The Disassociates performance
- West Nebraska Arts Center exhibitions and events
- and Edgerton Explorit Center events in Aurora.
Also, poetry from Tim Moran and a look at a new book by Omaha author Moonyani Write.
This week on Friday LIVE Extra, previews of the St. Paul First Friday Concert Series program featuring Bell-issimo, and Abendmusik and Nebraska Wesleyan concerts.
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.