The WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour Podcast

LEE ROY PARNELL is known as a triple-threat artist for his guitar prowess (particularly slide guitar), smooth soul-drenched voice, and top-shelf songwriting skills. After earning a regular spot at the famed Bluebird Café and a publishing contract, Parnell launched his solo career on Arista Records, which produced many country hits, including “A Little Bit Of You” and six other Top 10 hits. Parnell has released his first album in 11 years ‘Midnight Believer’. An album full of the soulful, guitar-driven, from the heart music Parnell is best known for.

SAMANTHA FISH has quickly established herself as a rising star in the contemporary blues world. Since then, the charismatic young singer-guitarist-songwriter has earned a reputation as a rising guitar hero and powerful live performer, while releasing a series of acclaimed albums that have shown her restless creative spirit consistently taking her in new and exciting musical direc-tions. Samantha Fish delivers some of her most compelling music to date with ‘Belle of the West’, her fifth studio album.

WoodSongs Kid: Gabriella Rose is a ten-year-old ukulele singer from Tampa Bay, Florida.

SZLACHETKA (pronounced SLA-HET-KA) draws your gaze back to a simpler time when mu-sic was less about stylized production and more about its experiential nature. His songwriting finds inspiration in the threads that connect us, weaving a tapestry of familiar moments that pay homage to the past while leaning into a future that promises both wonder and grace. Now based in Nashville, Rolling Stone hailed SZLACHETKA as one of the “10 New Artists You Need to Know”. He’ll be performing songs from his sophomore album ’Heart of my Hometown’.

JOSLYN & THE SWEET COMPRESSION deliver a hook-filled mix of funk and R&B-flavored pop. Based out of Lexington, Kentucky, the ensemble is lead by powerhouse vocalist Joslyn Hampton and features a dynamic mix of veterans and young talent to create their unique high energy grooves. Her debut set of original material will be released in a series of singles as opposed to on an album.

WoodSongs Kids: The Wallace Sisters are from Lexington, Kentucky and love to sing.

DAN TYMINSKI is one of the premier vocalists in modern acoustic music. He’s been a member of Alison Krauss + Union Station for 25 years. He contributed guitar and/or harmony to many projects including the voice for George Clooney’s on-screen character in O Brother, Where Art Thou? and in 2013, he sang lead on Avicii’s international pop hit “Hey Brother,” which reached #1 on charts in at least 18 countries. Tyminski has racked up 14 Grammy Awards and 18 total nominations. His daring new album ‘Southern Gothic’ merges electro-pop with his bluegrass and Americana roots.

DREW HOLCOMB is a road warrior for more than a decade, has spent his adulthood onstage and on the road playing his honest songs that explore the full range of American roots music. He turns a new corner with 2017's ‘Souvenir’, a highly-collaborative album that finds Drew Hol-comb and his band the Neighbors focusing on the things that truly stick with you - including family and friends, music and memories, people and places - in a fast-moving world.

WoodSongs Kids: The Kellys hail from Springfield, Kentucky and are a family band. They’ll perform an Appalachian take on the Korean folk song “Arrirang“.

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BELA FLECK AND ABIGAIL WASHBURN, “the king and queen of the banjo” (Paste Magazine), have a musical partnership like no other. Béla Fleck is a fifteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who re-radicalized it by combining it with Far East cul-ture and sounds. The duo’s self-titled debut earned the 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album. The duo play songs from their wildly innovative second album ‘Echo in the Valley’ on Rounder Records.

UNITED BY MUSIC is a performance program for musically talented people with development and intellectual challenges. Nonprofit expert and music supporter Barbara Hammerman and mu-sic producer Amanda Gresham founded and manage this program in North America, originally created in The Netherlands in 2006. The two direct this team of professional musician mentors and supporters, find the musical talents for the program, work in weekly sessions to create per-formance shows and play at festivals and events.

On this very Special Event Broadcast of WoodSongs, the organization has put together the UNITED BY MUSIC NORTH AMERICA band a blended mix of those who are neuro diverse with those who are neuro typical into a fabulous ensemble of musicians. This extraordinary group features two of their UBMNA Artist Ambassadors viral singing sensation MARLANA VANHOOSE from Kentucky and 19-year-old Mississippi blues artist phenom CHRISTONE "KINGFISH” INGRAM plus several UBMNA mentors including Grammy-nominated BB King Entertainer of the Year JANIVA MAGENESS, Northwest bluesman BEN RICE and award winning recording artists and rhythm section GARY DAVENPORT and MATT TECU.

This Special Event broadcast of WoodSongs is a massive roots music spectacular featuring all amazing WOODSONGS KIDS from around the nation plus special guests from the Folk Alli-ance, Blues Foundation, the IBMA and SongFarmers to explain what each organization does and how interested musicians can benefit from their grassroots work. Musicians performing on the broadcasts include: 16-years-old guitar prodigy DAVID JULIA performing with blues legend BOB MARGOLIN, Indian American Tennessee siblings and award-winning multi-instrumentalists GIRI & UMA PETERS, Grand Master Fiddle champion IVY PHILLIPS with renowned Nashville musician DEANIE RICHARDSON and the youngest national thumb pick-ing champion in history PARKER HASTINGS

TOMMY EMMANUEL is a virtuoso guitarist from Australia who has completely stormed the world of guitar playing … mesmerizing audiences in sold out theaters all over the world. The WoodSongs audience needs little introduction to arguably the finest guitar player of his genera-tion as he returns to our broadcast celebrating a brilliant new album ‘Accomplice One’. It’s an album full of incredible duets that showcases his love of many styles.

WoodSongs Kid: Bryce Paubel is a sixteen-year-old guitar player from Highland, Illinois who’s biggest guitar hero is Tommy Emmanuel. The two perform together on a duet that Tommy and Chet Atkins first performed together in 1997 on the album ‘The Day Finger Pickers Took Over The World’.