The folks at Fretboard Journal welcome a special guest to this week’s edition of Fretboard Journal Talk Radio. Mandolin virtuoso Mike Marshall will be the guest today at 1pm PST. You can stream the show live here, or download it later for listening on your own time.

The show’s hosts encourage listeners to participate as you would with any other talk radio.

…if you have a question for Mike, feel free to call in or email us and we’ll ask him for you!

Sounds like fun, be sure to tune in later today for all that mandolin goodness.

The editors of Fretboard Journal are trying their hand at internet radio. They’ve recently launched Fretboard Journal BlogTalkRadio.

The show is hosted by the editors of the magazine and will air live every Friday at 1PM PST. Each episode will be archived online for those who are unable to catch the show live. Of course, the talk will center around fretted instruments, mainly the guitar.

The first show, which aired April 3, 2009, features and interview with Martin Guitars historian John Woodland.

Featured guests for this episode: luthier John Woodland (describing the research he’s conducted on Martin guitars) and pedal steel guitarist Jon Rauhouse (Neko Case, Billy Bob Thornton’s Boxmasters). We also talk about the Fretboard Journal magazine and our new Spring 2009 issue featuring Clarence & Roland White.

It’s worth checking out if you’re into guitars. Just click the play button on the widget at the top of this post, and enjoy the show.

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer have recently launched their first podcast, Cathy & Marcy’s Song Shop. The target audience is kids, or families with kids. The podcast is intended to be a sing-along, play-along, laugh-along adventure for kids.

The first episode was entitled It’s Better When We Sing It Together and the second episode is It’s a Shame. Each podcast features a song by the same title and the children are encouraged to participate and sing along. The videos are taped with a live audience so there is on screen participation as well.

If you have you children and they are into music at all, this may be something you’ll want to check out. Cathy & Marcy tell me they are planning other Folk and Bluegrass podcasts in the future, so we’ll be watching for that.

Both of the existing episodes, along with all future ones, can be watched online. You can also subscribe to the feed from the same page to have the podcasts delivered via iTunes or whichever podcatcher you prefer.

Acoustic guitar Maharishi Larry Keel, along with his band Natural Bridge, will be making an appearance on WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour on Monday, November 12, 2007.

If you’ve ever seen Keel and band in concert you know what kind of energy you’re in store for. If you haven’t seem them live, you should make a point of catching this show. It’s coming to a radio and computer near you.

The show is broadcast from The Kentucky Theatre in Lexington, KY. The show starts at 6:45 PM EST, and is broadcast to 900,000 listeners on over 400 radio stations, including a number of international stations, and now XM Radio Channel 15.

In addition to the radio broadcast, the show can also be heard, and seen, online. The WoodSongs Webcast is a multi-camera weekly broadcast made available online as a streaming cybercast, and also as a downloadable podcast. Join the fun at 7 PM to watch the 60 minute show live as it happens, then stay tuned at 8:05 PM for the encore performance. The encore is not broadcast on radio due to time restraints.

The webcast happens live and the show is made available as a podcast soon after the show date. Visit this page for more information about the WoodSongs Podcast.

If you’d like to be part of the studio audience, the ticket cost is $10. More information is available here.