WOODSONGS OLD-TIME RADIO HOUR
WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour is an all volunteer, live audience celebration of grassroots, bluegrass, country and folk music and the artists who make it. Produced 44 Mondays per year from the historic Lyric Theatre in Lexington, Kentucky the show airs worldwide on 537 radio stations from Australia to Ireland and across the United States. It also airs on American Forces Radio Network twice each weekend in 177 nations, every military base and US Naval ship around the world. It is broadcast into millions of homes as a public television series on KET in Kentucky and PBS stations coast-to-coast, nationwide every Friday on RFD-TV, America’s Most Important Rural Network.
PRESS RELEASES
Michael Johnathon Kicks Off 2023 With Release Of 20th Album; Next Season Of WoodSongs; New WoodSongs Kids Radio & Public TV Series; National SongFarmers Gathering; & Public TV Broadcast Of Walden: The Ballad Of Thoreau
WoodSongs Kids - ‘Mr. Rogers meets the Grand Ole Opry” Affiliate information online at woodsongs.com/kids_affiliate or waldenplay.com & NETA for PBS broadcast affiliates, & PRX for public radio 20th studio album ‘Garden Of Silence’ available March 24; preview...
OP-ED: Michael Johnathon and the message of America’s Front Porch
He is a banjo playing folksinger. His worldview is shaped from the front porch of his log cabin home outside of Lexington, Kentucky. “Never before in the history of the world has the need to revisit the meaning and spirit of the front porch been so needed,” Johnathon...
Michael Johnathon & WoodSongs Deliver Music Instruments To Kentucky Flood Victims
Lexington Herald Leader senior reporter Valarie Honeycutt profiles two instrument recipients WYMT-TV in Hazard, Kentucky has the story Photos & Video B-Roll Gallery for TV & Media [click to view/download] "Let’s not underestimate the comfort music and art can...
WoodSongs Music Distribution To Benefit Appalachian Flood Victims Set For October 29 At Knott County Central High School
Mountain Top Media TV & WKYT-TV reports on why & how the effort came together WoodSongs volunteers refurbish and inventory all donated instruments at Currier's Music World in Richmond, Ky [click to view photos] Those wishing to donate instruments or services...
WoodSongs Broadcast Begins Production Of ‘WoodSongs Kids’ Spin-Off Series
Folksinger Michael Johnathon discusses the new TV show with Bluegrass Today “Mr. Rogers meets the Grand Ole Opry” Schools, teachers, home school parents and students come FREE to the Oct. 10 taping at the Lyric Theater LEXINGTON, Ky. (September 20, 2022) - Folksinger...
WoodSongs Flood Relief Effort Organized For Musicians In Eastern Kentucky
"Let’s not underestimate the comfort music and art can bring to families and neighbors in a time of great loss. When the time is right, we will be there.” - Michael Johnathon Those who wish to donate instruments or services may visit WoodSongs.com/Flood or email...
Mayor Linda Gorton & Councilman James Brown Of Lexington Set To Hold Press Conference To Formally Announce WoodSongs Residence At The Lyric Theatre, Kentucky Tourism Partnership & WoodSongs’ Flood Relief Project
LEXINGTON, Ky. (August 2, 2022) - Lexington, Kentucky’s Mayor Linda Gorton, Councilman James Brown, VisitLEX and the Department of Kentucky Tourism are hosting a press conference on Wednesday, August 3 at 10am ET at the Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center to...
WoodSongs Secures Global Partnership With Kentucky Department Of Tourism
FRANKFORT, Ky. (June 20, 2022) - The Kentucky Department of Tourism (KDT) has formed a global partnership with folksinger Michael Johnathon’s syndicated Lexington-based radio and TV broadcast, WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour. Supported by Lexington’s tourism office,...
Tune In: WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour Set To Premiere On Country Road TV With Special Guests Riders In The Sky, Streaming June 1
Premiere episode kicks off with WoodSongs’ 1000th show taping featuring Grand Ole Opry members Riders In The Sky & tween yodeling cowgirl sensation Phoebe White New episodes stream weekly on “WoodSongs Wednesdays” across Country Road TV platform, including...
Kentucky Music Hall of Fame To Celebrate WoodSongs In Special History Exhibit Opening, Saturday April 30
This FREE & open to the public event takes place on Saturday, April 30 at 1pm at Kentucky Music Hall of Fame during the 2022 National Gathering of SongFarmers in Renfro Valley Photo gallery from past WoodSongs & SongFarmer events and gatherings [view/download]...