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On the Sept. 25 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about: The 2026 American Liszt Society Festival, with artistic director Paul Barnes and featured artist Angel Stanislav Wang (0:51); The Manhattan Short Film Festival being shown at Kearney's World Theatre (12:28); and the upcoming Nebraska Storytelling Festival, and its theme "Many Threads, One Story" (19:46). Hear how Undertale-The Determination Symphony is paying La Vista's Astro Theater a visit, from the Verge Arcade's Penelope Morrow (44:34), and what The Ross Theatre in Lincoln has planned for their upcoming Fright Fest, from Cole McEwen (31:19). Also hear poetry from Wayne, Nebraska's own J.V. Brummels. (40:01)

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with artist Sophia Baker about her art and how it seems to ask difficult questions about morality and the consequences of human action. Also hear about ArteLatinx 2026 being held at Omaha's El Museo Latino

On the Sept. 18 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about: Musical invention, with Casey Hollingsworth (26:20); Flatwater Shakespeare's upcoming shows, One-Ham Manlet, and Coriolanus (17:09); The Marches: Fragments of Time from Arp Clock and Wood Shop, a book and art exhibition by Terry Ratzloff (1:09); the Willow Creek Folk School with Tom Isern (34:27); and the Nebraska Chamber Players' upcoming concert, Autumn Contemplations (41:38). We will also hear the final part of the series on the art of the Omaha Public Library from KJ Teder (48:34). This time she spoke with artists Peyton Pearson and Sarah Rowe.

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with author Tlotlo Tsamaase about her latest book House of Margins, where a young African author disappears after being invited to an exclusive writing residency, and her sister is left only with a true crime podcast to help her uncover the truth about what really happened. Also hear a conversation with writer Katie Marya about what goes into translating a text, and how, between languages, there is not always a one-to-one answer.

On the Sept. 11 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about: author Amy Smyth Miller's soon-to-be-released book, "HOME: A Memoir of Family, Forgiveness, and Healing from Complex PTSD" (1:20); the 2026 Art in the Garden, themed Patchwork Garden (12:47) ; the Omaha Community Playhouse's 2026/2027 opening show "Come From Away," (22:03) ;Oboe and English horn player Robert Walters and his upcoming show in Brownville (36:54) ; and Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra season opener taking on Copeland (45:35). We will also have a film review by Kwakiutl Dreyer of "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma." (30:29)

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with folk band The Riverside about their music and their upcoming show at Sutherland's Stolen Vault Records. Also hear a conversation from the Nebraska State Fair with Kearney artist Kyan the Red.

On the Sept. 4 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska State Fair! Tune in, or come to the fair, to hear live musical performances and interviews from: the Sutton High School Marching Band (1:02); The Many Moccasins Dance Troupe (4:10); troubadour Nathan Ertzner(13:00); The Flying Royals (19:37); and Kiley Barwick and Company (32:32).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall is talking to two artists about their craft and how their experiences and history informs their current work. Elizabeth Burden is taking part in an exhibition titled “Elsewhere/The Prairie was Ours" at the Great Plain Art Museum where she is taking the ideas behind history, and how it is told. Artist Madeline Cass is exploring the connections between humans and nature with her exhibition "Where Dust Devils Dance" at The Archive located at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

On the Aug. 28 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from Nebraska Public Media. Tune in to hear Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about: Summerfest at Lincoln's LUX Center for the Arts (1:30); the Second Chance Comedy Show, from founder Joe Huisman (9:54); the upcoming Nebraska Bluegrass Concert Series (23:05); the 15th Prairie Pride Film Festival, with organizer Kris Stanley and executive director for OutNebraska Rachel Tomlinson Dick (32:25); "The Mess That Made Them," a new book from author Ryan T. Pozzi (43:39). You'll also hear poetry from JV Brummels (18:25). Excerpts from the Corson Branch Buzzard Club's "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" (30:39) and Bien Fang's "Push." (42:00)

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall is talking with Tom Knoblauch about his upcoming Reel Talk with Omaha's Film Streams about "Portrait of a Lady on Fire." Also hear from those at the Lofte about their stage performance of Aaron Sorkin's "A Few Good Men."

On the Aug. 21 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from Nebraska Public Media. Tune in to hear Genevieve Randall have lively conversations with: the former and current executive directors of the Lincoln Community Playhouse, Morrie Enders and Ali Schade(1:07); Liz Kendall Weisser and JaKeen Fox, who are helping to put on the Issa Trap Symphony show at the Joslyn Art Musuem in Omaha (14:27); Cynthia Miller, manager of Lewellen's The Most Unlikely Place, about what they have planned for the end of the summer (31:06); Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Barbara Zach Lee about their upcoming 100th season (39:46); and country artist Neah McMeen (48:46). You'll also hear poetry from Eleanor Reeds (26:29).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall is talking with the editor of Nebraskaland magazine about their current exhibition at Omaha's Durham Museum, celebrating 100 years of publication, and the Hastings Community Playhouse is bringing the movie, Evil Dead to the stage, and it's a musical!

On the Aug. 14 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from Nebraska Public Media. Tune in to hear Genevieve Randall have lively conversations with: Musician Maddog, who will also be playing her songs "Porch Sittin Szn" and "Shyanne" (0:53), Vision Maker Media's President and CEO Francene Blyth-Lewis, about the Vision Maker's 50th anniversary (23:44), Director of the Sheldon Museum of Art Susan Longhenry, who will share what is coming up for the Sheldon (32:26), and author Michael Bettendorf, about his new book "Midwestern Chrome." (43:56) You'll also hear poetry from JV Brummels (18:49).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall is checking in with Nick Talbott of the Talbott Brothers about what they have been working on and what they have coming up. Also hear from multi-instrumentalist Matea Jerkovic about jazz, music education and upcoming gigs.

On the Aug. 7 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Haymarket Mill Coffee & Tea. Guest host Penelope Morrow has lively conversations about: - composer Masayoshi Ishikawa's latest album Migration (1:09); - author David Moscovich's latest book, Premieres: A Memoir in Verse (18:52); - artists of the month at Cozad's Robert Henri Museum and Art Gallery, Beth Jasnoch and Jeri-Jasnoch-Schultheiss (10:34); and - a new theater production coming out of Omaha's Union for the Contemporary Arts, Frydaddies (37:25). We also hear poetry from Eleanor Reeds (31:36) and KJ Teder learns about Kim Hager and Angie Seykora in her series about the artists of Omaha's new public library (44:45).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, explore musical wandering and printmaking. Hear from printmakers Karen Kunc and Janine Wong about the craft, as well as what is going on at Constellation Studios and the LUX for First Friday, and don't miss an update from Americana band The Midnight Wanderers.

On the July 31 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from Nebraska Public Media's Ron Hull studios! Tune in to hear live music, poetry and Genevieve Randall have lively conversations with: Erik Higgins of from The Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival (4:39), - "Benkshaft (Longing" from Alex Weiser's "And all the days were purple" (0:40) - "Coqueteos" from Gabriella Lena Frank's "Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout" (14:30) - Sandeep Das tabla improvisation (25:30) the Brad Colerick Band (45:53), and poet Caroliena Cabada (20:39 and 39:27)

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, we're talking with director Shannon Kring about her documentary, Nine Little Indians. We will also be joined by Yvonne “Pat” Charbonneau, whose story is being told within the documentary. Also, don't miss our conversation with the 2025 winner of the annual Ex Ophidia Press's Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Contest Colleen Morton Busch.

-Due to technical issues within our recording system, this podcast sounds off. We thought the interviews were good, and figured they should be heard, no matter if the sound quality isn't as good as normal- On the July 24 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studios! Tune in to hear guest host Penelope Morrow have lively conversations about: The Nebraska Crossroads Music Festival (1:04), an exhibition at the Museum of Nebraska Art that delves into the landscapes of Nebraska (15:28), and Lincoln's zine, Interrobang (30:44). There will also be another installment from KJ Teder about the art of the new Omaha Library. This week we hear from artist Littleton Alston (23:54).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, we hear from the Beatrice Community Players about their Dungeons and Dragons laden upcoming production of "She Kills Monsters". Also learn how to connect with an Omaha artist through a payphone, with the new Omaha Payphone Project. If you can't make it to the physical payphone, the Omaha Payphone Project has an app where you can access it! Find that website here, and the "phonebook" you can use to look up artists, or even leave a voicemail, here.