Friday LIVE
Latest Episodes
Coro di Flauti, Peter Wilson, Jennifer Kloetzel, Renga and more…
03/13/2026 | 1h 4m
Extra: Abendmusik and the Nu-Blu Band
03/12/2026 | 19m
LSO, Carnegie Arts Center, Pathfinder’s Chorus and more...
03/06/2026 | 58m
Extra: Dr. Peter Gurry and The Rocket Men
03/05/2026 | 20m
Saddiq Dzukogi, RUNA, Red Lion and Hector Anchondo
02/27/2026 | 55m
Extra: The SALT Quintet and Philip Daniel
02/26/2026 | 20m
Abendmusik, Benjamin Wills, Anna Bemis Palmer Museum and more…
02/20/2026 | 55m
Extra: Nebraska Chamber Players and Hastings Symphony Orchestra
02/19/2026 | 17m
Theater in Nebraska, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Gurukulam and more…
02/13/2026 | 44m
Extra: Conrad Tao and the Nebraska Snow Sculpting Championships
02/12/2026 | 22m
JDAC’s Art of India, Kristin Hoerl book and more…
02/06/2026 | 54m
Extra Extra: Jonathan Van Ness
02/06/2026 | 15m
Extra: The BLUEBARN Theatre and Gallery 9
02/05/2026 | 19m
Dr. Anton Armstrong, Maria Nazos, UNO Printshow and more...
01/30/2026 | 57m
Extra: Group Sax
01/29/2026 | 12m
Gabriela Montero, Constellation Studios, Brad Bigelow and more.
01/23/2026 | 59m
Extra: EnChanted Images: The Voice of Sante-Foy at Conques
01/22/2026 | 20m
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
On the March 13 episode of Friday LIVE, we are at the Mill Coffee and Tea in Lincoln's Haymarket with live music! Host Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with:
- The BrickHouse Duo, who will be bringing their violin and cello to play a few tunes
- Lincoln's flute choir, Coro di Flauti
- Wakefield's The Little Red Hen Theatre managing director, Adam Goos, about its production of Marjorie Prime
- Karen Shoemaker, about an upcoming workshop that focuses on the classical Japanese form of poetry called Renga
- Nebraska Public Media's Director of Education, Jessica Mitchel-McCullough, about the upcoming Be My Neighbor Day.
It will also feature more poetry from Nebraska's State Poet, Jewel Rogers.
This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast, the Nu-Blu band is bringing progressive bluegrass to the Golden Husk in Ord, while Abendmusik director Tom Trenney is talking about what is like bringing one of the most monumental works in the choral repertoire, Bach’s Mass in B minor, to the stage.
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.