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This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast, artist Leah Powell Hosseinabad tells us about her exhibit at Wallspace LNK, "Hold: The Space Between", featuring work created while processing the loss of her mother and her husband’s response to war and turmoil in his Iranian homeland. We also hear from two members of the Nebraska Chamber Players about their final set of performances for the season.

On the April 10 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from St. Paul United Methodist Church in Lincoln and bringing live music to boot! Host Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with: Singer and songwriter, Daniel Christian (0:47); Composer, violist and guest composer for the upcoming Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra concert, Kenji Bunch (26:20); and Steel Drum band, PANgea. The episode will also feature live poetry from Tim Moran (15:40).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast, we talk with the executive director at Nebraska City's Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Amy Smith, about Nebraska's State Poet Jewel Rogers coming to visit for her HOMEGROWN series. Also on the podcast, learn about a joint effort event between Omaha's Culxr House and Omaha Performing Arts Hip Hop Lab.

On the April 3 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Mill in Lincoln's historic Haymarket. Host Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with: Author Alan Bartels, discussing his new book featuring stories about the Sandhills in Nebraska (0:30); Carrie Brown and Karim Muasher, co-artistic directors for the world premiere of Capital City at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts (11:06); Morrie Enders, executive director of the Lincoln Community Playhouse(23:29); Scott Kirby, sharing his traveling Main Street Souvenirs show coming to Red Cloud (46:12). The episode will also feature more poetry by Nathan Ertzner (33:03) and a movie review of Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It by Kwakiutl Dreher (40:52).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast, we are talking with musician Mei Semones about her musical process and her upcoming show at the Waiting Room in Omaha. We also visit with Tyler Rinne, managing artistic director of the Beatrice Community Players, about the upcoming production of The Cottage, a show that follows a couple whose secret affair quickly unravels when their spouses unexpectedly arrive, setting off a chain of revelations.

On the March 27 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studios. Host Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with: Diane Bartels, a pilot and author, about a talk she is giving in Hastings about Nebraska's Aviatrix, Evelyn Sharpe (1:33); Zak Foster and Roderick Kiracofe, about creating and collecting quilts (9:20); and Ed Love, about the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra's upcoming concert that celebrates 50 years of Big Band Jazz music (20:05). We will also feature poetry by Nathan Ertzner (27:30) and a movie review of Natchez by Kwakiutl Dreher (33:11).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast, we are talking with director of the Center for Great Plains Studies Margaret Jacobs, as well as Cory DeRoin, a member of the Otoe-Missouria tribe, about an upcoming Otoe-Missouria History, Activism and Representation panel discussion. We are also talking to Wayne State College communication arts professor Rusty Ruth about their upcoming theatre production of "Mother Courage and Her Children," a play that examines the cruelty of capitalism when placed above human needs.

On the March 20 episode of Friday LIVE, we're back in the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Host Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with: country artist Darrell Scott (1:39); Chad M. Olson about an exhibition he is presenting at Lincoln's Kiechel Fine Art (12:41); the Arbor Lodge Mansion Coordinator, Laura Steinman, about its month-long quilt exhibition (27:54); children's book author and scientist Alison Pearce Stevens about her newest book and her life story (37:54); and violinist for the Philadelphia Orchestra Eliot Heaton (45:59). We will also feature more poetry from Nebraska's State Poet, Jewel Rogers (23:33).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast, we are talking with two Lincolnites who know their local history. Jim McKee and Ed Zimmer are helping put on a speaker series through St. Paul United Methodist Church that explores the history of Nebraska's Capital City.

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: Lincoln's flute choir, Coro di Flauti, who will play a few songs for us (1:33); Wakefield's The Little Red Hen Theatre managing director, Adam Goos, about its production of Marjorie Prime (20:18); Karen Shoemaker, about an upcoming workshop that focuses on the classical Japanese form of poetry called Renga (26:46); Nebraska Public Media's Director of Education, Jessica Mitchel-McCullough, about the upcoming Be My Neighbor Day (32:05); and The BrickHouse Duo, who will be bringing their violin and cello to play a few tunes (38:24 and 54:08) It will also feature more poetry from Nebraska's State Poet, Jewel Rogers (49:56).

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.

On the March 6 episode of Friday LIVE, we are back at the Mill Coffee and Tea in Lincoln's Haymarket. Host Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with: Two of the leading actors from the ensemble bringing The Music Man to the Lied Center for the Arts (1:30), Artist Cindy Weil about her "Only Wool" exhibition at Kearney's Museum of Nebraska Art (10:03), Fremont's Pathfinder Chorus about an upcoming show (23:52), artists Stacy Larson and Lauren Krusso who's work is being shown at the LUX Arts Center (31:39), the executive director for the Carnegie Arts Center, Kyren Gibson, about their newest exhibition (39:08), and with Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra's conductor Ed Polochick, as well as harpist and featured soloist Julie Smith (46:02). You will also hear poetry by Nebraska's State Poet, Jewel Rogers (19:43).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast...Hear a conversation with Dr. Peter Gurry about an upcoming talk he is doing at the Clayton Museum of Ancient History, and with the director of the Angels Theater Company's upcoming production The Rocket Men.

On Feb. 27, Friday LIVE is from the Ron Hull Studio at Nebraska Public Media! Host Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations and host live performances from: jazz group, The Red Lion Quartet (0:47), Celtic supergroup RUNA (14:45), and from Omaha's own Hector Anchondo (39:00) You will also hear live poetry by Saddiq Dzukogi (6:16 and 35:11)

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast...Hear a conversation with 3 members of the SALT Quintet about their upcoming concert entitled A Mosaic of Mothers, as well as from Nebraska's own Philip Daniel about an upcoming concert at the Lark in Hastings that involves scent.

On the Feb. 20 Friday LIVE, Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with: Anna Bemis Palmer Museum curator Carrie Remmers about their vintage game night; conductor for the Hastings Symphony Orchestra Tyler Goodrich White; UNL Opera's Bill Shomos about their performances of La Boheme in Ord and Friend; Abendmusik's Tom Trenney about their upcoming Youth Masterworks Festival; and an Omaha artist about his homage to Mr. Rogers You will also hear poetry by Twyla Hansen.

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra podcast, we're going classical. Hear a conversation with members of the Nebraska Chamber Players about their upcoming concerts, as well as from Nebraska's Young Artist Competition winner, who will be playing with the Hasting Symphony Orchestra on their upcoming concert.

On the Feb. 13 Friday LIVE, Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with: artists Denise Bookwalter and Lee Emma Running about their art exhibition at Nebraska City's Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts; Mallika Madduri about an upcoming dance performance that will feature the traditional Indian dance, Bharathanatyam; Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra conductor Ed Polochick, as well as soloist Rita Porfiris and composer Julia Adolphe. You will also hear poetry by Twyla Hansen, and a theater round-up about four upcoming theater productions happening in York, Beatrice, Wayne and Lincoln.

This week on Friday LIVE Extra, a conversation with Junction Trio member Conrad Tao, as well as with the competition director of the Nebraska Snow Sculpting about the upcoming state championship.

On the Feb. 6 Friday LIVE, Genevieve Randall will have lively conversations with: art curator Anne Pagel about the "Art of India" exhibition at Hastings College; director of Grand Island Little Theater's show, "The Big Five-Oh", Jim Truell; author and professor of rhetoric and public culture at UNL, Kristen Hoerl, about her book, “The Impossible Woman: Television, Feminism and the Future”. You will also hear live poetry by Maria Nazos, as well as an interview about her poetry, and her upcoming collection PULSE.