WoodSongs is a live audience celebration of grassroots music and the artists who make it. The show airs on over 500+ radio stations from Australia to Ireland, on American Forces Radio Network twice each weekend in 177 nations, every military base and US Naval ship in the world, in millions of TV homes as a public TV series. Now Friday’s on RFD-TV America’s Most Important Rural Network. WoodSongs is produced 44 Mondays a year.
Celebrating the Music of America’s Front Porch
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The entire hour special event dedicated to the kids on America’s Front Porch. It’s the most popular segment fo the WoodSongs broadcast. We are preparing a BRAND NEW TV Series just for kids. Think “Mr. Rogers meets the Grand Opry!”
Monday Aug 15, 2022 Lyric Theatre 300 E 3rd St, Lexington KY PUBLIC: $10 call 859-280-2201 or CLICK HERE WS PARTNERS: FREE call 859-252-8888 or CLICK HERE
GEORGE WINSTON is one of the legendary pianists in America. He grew up in mainly Montana, but spent formative years in Mississippi, and Florida. Inspired by R&B, jazz, blues, and rock (especially the Doors) he started playing the organ in 1967. Switching to acoustic piano in 1971, he sold 15 million albums. His latest album, NIGHT, is a collection of songs recorded at five different studios.
CUTTER ELLIOTThas proven the doctors who said he would never walk, talk, or play guitar… very wrong. Born eight weeks premature and diagnosed with cerebral palsy, autism, and partly blind and deaf, his disabilities have turned into superpowers. He’s now using his gifts to help archive and preserve the traditional sounds of country music. His newest album is titled HEARTACHE WAITING TO HAPPEN
Monday Aug 22, 2022 Lyric Theatre 300 E 3rd St, Lexington KY PUBLIC: $10 call 859-280-2201 or CLICK HERE WS PARTNERS: FREE call 859-252-8888 or CLICK HERE
ANDREW FARRISS is one of Australia’s greatest songwriters and a co-founder and main songwriter for multi award winning band INXS. Andrew has spent time writing in Nashville and Australia for the last 10 years, before pursuing a solo career. His new EP, THE LOVE MAKES THE WORLD, will be released in October.
FORTUNATE ONESis a Canadian indie folk duo from St. John’s, Newfoundland, consisting of Andrew James O’Brien and Catherine Allan. Both sing lead vocals, while James plays guitar, and Catherine plays accordion and keyboards. Their album THE BLISS won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Vocal Group of the Year. Their latest album THAT WAS YOU AND ME was released this summer.
Monday Aug 29, 2022 Lyric Theatre 300 E 3rd St, Lexington KY PUBLIC: $10 call 859-280-2201 or CLICK HERE WS PARTNERS: FREE call 859-252-8888 or CLICK HERE
MICHAELA ANNE is a singer and songwriter left New York working at a major label and moved to Nashville to focus on her own career. Her music contains many elements from genres such as country, pop, indie rock, and Honky Tonk. Songs from her album ‘Bright Lights and the Fame’ landed on an HBO series ‘Divorce.’ Michaela’s newest album is ‘Oh To Be That Free’
JACK KLATTis a tireless troubadour from Minneapolis. He is a prolific writer known for writing in many styles and genres. He has used different style of American music including folk, blues, R&B, and arcane country to build his own style. His latest EP ‘Edge of the End’
SEPT 5 – NO SHOW
Monday Sept 12 2022 Lyric Theatre 300 E 3rd St, Lexington KY PUBLIC: $10 call 859-280-2201 or CLICK HERE WS PARTNERS: FREE call 859-252-8888 or CLICK HERE
THE KRUGER BROTHERS Born and raised in Europe, brothers Jens and Uwe Kruger started singing and playing instruments at a very young age in Switzerland. The brothers were performing regularly by the time they were eleven and twelve years old. In just a few years they were busking on the streets of cities throughout eastern and western Europe. Jens (banjo), Uwe (guitar), and Joel (bass) personify the spirit of exploration and innovation that forms the core of the American musical tradition.
THE FRIEL SISTERS Anna, Sheila and Clare Friel are sisters from Scotland, traditional musicians born in Glasgow with their family roots firmly entrenched in the Donegal Gaeltacht (Derrynamansher). They achieve a close family blend on fiddle, flute and uilleann pipes interspersed with songs sang in unison, many from their family and local repertoire
Monday Oct 10 2022 Lyric Theatre 300 E 3rd St, Lexington KY
KIDS 16 and under come FREE with Parent or Guardian PUBLIC: $10 call 859-280-2201 or CLICK HERE WS PARTNERS: FREE call 859-252-8888 or CLICK HERE
WOODSONGS KIDS is a brand new TV series just for kids musicians and performers. Think “Mr Rogers meets the Grand Ole Opry.” Tonight there will be TWO 30 minute episode taped. All kids and students 16 and under come FREE. Schools and home school parents are encouraged to be in the audience.
ALL KIDS 12 and under will get a FREE copy of the MOUSIE HIWAY 32-page book about bluegrass music!
FREE with your Partnership: WOODSONGS 5: A Fireplace Compendium & Van Gogh Reader (includes The Painter album) READ a new article about the importance of WoodSongs in the world of music & art click here
FREE with your Partnership: WOODSONGS 5: A Fireplace Compendium & Van Gogh Reader (includes The Painter album) READ a new article about the importance of WoodSongs in the world of music & art click here