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
Newly Launched WoodSongs Kids TV Series Wins Silver Award In The 44th Annual Telly Awards
“Mr. Rogers meets the Grand Ole Opry” LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 23, 2023) -- Folksinger Michael Johnathon and the all-volunteer production crew of the nationally syndicated radio and TV broadcast WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour is excited to announce becoming a Silver Winner...
NPR Affiliate WEKU-FM Wins Regional Edward R. Murrow Award For Reporting On The WoodSongs Flood Relief Program In Eastern Kentucky
Photos & Video B-Roll Gallery for TV & Media [click to view/download] “Let’s not underestimate the comfort music and art can bring to families and neighbors in a time of great loss.” – Michael Johnathon, WoodSongs Host & Executive Producer RICHMOND, Ky....
7th Annual National Gathering Of SongFarmers Coming To The Kentucky Music Hall Of Fame May 12 & 13
WFPA community of SongFarmers grows to 96 active chapters worldwide
Event FREE for all current SongFarmer members, or $20 per day for public
WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour Crew Honored To Have U.S. Army Iraq War Veteran Attend Show Taping
"I say it on the show every week that we're on American Forces Radio network, on the air from South Korea to Kuwait. I get hundreds of emails from listeners around the world ... but when one of those fellows show up at the theater, it's time to stop and shake hands."...
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 at MichaelJohnathon.com/GardenofSilence & pre-save at orcd.co/gardenofsilence
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...