Nebraska Public Media is reaching into its vault for the return of its concert series "33rd Street Sessions." Episodes will feature memorable performances, adding brandnew artist interviews to relive the spirit of the 1990s music scene from Nebraska's local bands. Live audiences swayed to blues, country, rock and every music genre in-between as bands played in the Ron Hull Studio at Nebraska Public Media on 33rd Street in Lincoln.
A series of television broadcasts on Nebraska Public Media includes four episodes from the original series, with new interviews from band members and previously unseen content. In addition, archival concerts will be available for streaming with the member benefit PBS Passport. The first television episode, "33rd Street Sessions: Baby Jason and the Spankers and Indigenous," will air at 8:30 p.
m. CT, Aug. 31 on Nebraska Public Media.
It features the blues-rock band Baby Jason and the Spankers. Drummer Dan Irvin and bass player Jeremy Woerner were still in high school when Jason Davis spotted them playing at a Lincoln High School talent show. The two toured with the band before they even graduated.
Music by Indigenous is up next in the episode with frontman Mato Nanji, who was raised on the Ihanktonwan (Yankton) nation in South Dakota with his family band. In 1997, the same year the band played on "33rd Street Sessions," they played at the American Indian Inaugural Ball for former President Bill Clinton. Episode two, "33rd Street Sessions: Full Choke a.