Friday LIVE
On the April 26 Friday LIVE at 9:59 a.m. CT, host Genevieve Randall and guests chat about:
- “Delights & Shadows: A Tribute to Nebraska Poet Ted Kooser”
- a guitar ensemble performance in a planetarium in Chadron
- Lincoln Calling
- Wessels Living History Farm
- The Wartburg Choir
- First Friday Jazz with Jackie Allen, Hans Sturm and more on May 3
- The Nebraska Brass
- Aging Partners Dinner and a Show
- and Public Art Lincoln.
Also, some of Ted Kooser's poetry read by Chloe Moore and a preview of a performance of the "Standing Bear Cantata" in Omaha.
This week's Friday LIVE Extra podcast features a talk with author Elizabeth “Beth” Theiss-Morse about her new book “Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization and the Undermining of Equality” and an extended version of the Ted Kooser tribute preview.
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.
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