Friday LIVE
Latest Episodes
Extra Extra: Dan Whitney extended interview
01/18/2025 | 31m
Dan Whitney, Rent, Tosca Lee and more!
01/17/2025 | 54m
Extra: Wayne State's Honor Bands and artist Terry Ratzlaff
01/16/2025 | 26m
State Poet, History in Central Nebraska and more
01/10/2025 | 1h 6m
Extra: "Goodnight Moon & The Runaway Bunny" at the Lied Center
01/09/2025 | 11m
Extra: Randy J. Goodwin
01/02/2025 | 22m
Extra: WNAC and OmniArts Nebraska
12/26/2024 | 14m
Friday LIVE Holiday Special
12/20/2024 | 59m
Extra: Dennis Crawford and Andrea von Kampen
12/19/2024 | 18m
Kevin Paul Hofeditz, Speedwriting Party, Jewel Rodgers and more!
12/13/2024 | 1h 15m
Extra: Nebraska Communities Playhouse and Olde Glory Theatre
12/12/2024 | 9m
Edem Garro, Philip Daniel, Matt Mason, and more, from Ron Hull
12/06/2024 | 1h 6m
Extra: Montreal Guitar Trio, LSO, NWU and Abendmusik
12/05/2024 | 27m
Extra: Beatrice Regional Orchestra and First Friday Jazz
11/27/2024 | 34m
String Beans book/music, Midwest Theater, Voices of Omaha & more
11/22/2024 | 1h 0m
Extra: Little Red Hen Theatre and Nebraska Scholastic Awards
11/21/2024 | 11m
Patton Oswalt, Melody Wranglers, St. Paul concerts, and more!
11/15/2024 | 1h 2m
Fall Platte River Art Show and Patton Oswalt
11/14/2024 | 23m
Nebraska Arts Hall of Fame, No Man's Land Film, Queen's Cartoonists and More!
11/08/2024 | 1h 6m
Extra: York University talk and Four Shillings Short
11/07/2024 | 29m
Beasts & Baubles, family opera, emerging theatre artists & more!
11/01/2024 | 59m
Extra: First Friday Jazz and Nebraska Chamber Players
10/31/2024 | 18m
Anvil Orchestra, Bobby Gadoury & Sharon Kreimer in GI and more..
10/25/2024 | 1h 7m
Extra: Uncanny Halloween, Farmer Brown's Field and Moth Project
10/24/2024 | 30m
Nebraska Storytelling, Poetry of Grief, Bianca Swift and more...
10/18/2024 | 1h 3m
Extra: An Evening of Choirs
10/17/2024 | 5m
Book Celebration, Sing from the Heart, Afrocon & more...
10/11/2024 | 1h 0m
Extra: "Voting is People Power" and Jeremi Suri
10/09/2024 | 28m
Fright Fest, WNAC music, Bianca Swift poetry and more!
10/04/2024 | 1h 3m
Extra: UNK Wind Ensemble Concert and Gallery 9
10/03/2024 | 15m
Bel Canto Duo, Jaime Arredondo, Julia Williams and Hasan Khalil
09/27/2024 | 1h 15m
Extra: Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra and North Platte musical
09/26/2024 | 27m
Amy Tan, Flatwater Film Festival, Beatrice farce and more...
09/20/2024 | 59m
Extra: Artwalk Aurora, Constellation Studios and Bluecat Gallery
09/19/2024 | 20m
Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra, Cypress Hill, Porch Jam and more!
09/13/2024 | 59m
Extra: Francie and Finch events and art at Tugboat and WNAC
09/12/2024 | 42m
Extra Extra: Eric "Bobo" Correa from Cypress Hill
09/10/2024 | 23m
Wizard of Oz, Broadway hopefuls, cultural celebrations and more!
09/06/2024 | 59m
Extra: Yorkfest
09/05/2024 | 12m
Extra: Opera Outdoors & Rock Swap
08/30/2024 | 20m
Kwame Dawes, Melodrama at Mahoney, Flatwater Shakespeare & more
08/30/2024 | 1h 5m
Extra: Kwame Dawes and Bri Murphy
08/20/2024 | 38m
Poetry therapy, Panhandle festival, McKinstry-Brown poems & more
08/16/2024 | 1h 8m
Extra: Summerfest
08/15/2024 | 7m
Metro Gallery, Merryman Center, The Tassel, Coash book & more...
08/09/2024 | 1h 4m
Extra: OLLI and The Pathfinder Chorus
08/08/2024 | 14m
Nebraska Crossroads, Ava Winter & more, from the Ron Hull Studio
08/02/2024 | 1h 6m
Extra: Wendy Weiss and Outlandia
08/01/2024 | 20m
Chautauqua, Most Unlikely Place, Lucas Kellison and more...
07/26/2024 | 58m
Extra: "Dinner and a Show" and Glenda K. Clare
07/25/2024 | 14m
Meadowlark Fest, rural Broadway Academy, Matt Mason and more...
07/19/2024 | 1h 0m
Extra: Gregg Jones, Minden Opera House Gallery, WNAC
07/18/2024 | 24m
This week on the Jan. 24 Friday LIVE at 9:59 a.m. CT, Genevieve Randall and guests have lively conversations about:
- Gary Hochman's new film "Deadly Deception at Sobibor" in Omaha and Lincoln
- two concerts by Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra this weekend
- "California Clay," a new exhibition at Hastings College
- concerts in Seward and Central City by La Dolce Vita Duo
- and a performance by the Homestead Harmonizers in Friend.
Also, poetry from Julie S. Paschold and a look at a concert with Alexander Payne and the Omaha Symphony.
On this week's Friday LIVE Extra podcast, TBD.
Jayne Lynch finds herself with LSO’s Ed Polochick and 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.