Tom has a long history with Sing Out! as a writer and regular contributor (for more than a decade) and deep and rich skills as a radio host and programmer of folk and roots music! He's been a folk musician and teacher for over forty years. Tom began playing and singing Bob Dylan and Tom Paxton songs, but fell in love with old-time music and the clawhammer banjo after hearing John McCutcheon at the legendary Bethlehem folk club Godfrey Daniels. He has studied with old-time music greats Dwight Diller, Riley Baugus and Norman and Nancy Blake … and has, himself, taught at many music camps and workshops including The Augusta Heritage Workshops (in Elkins WV), the Pocono Dulcimer Fest (in Stroudsburg PA) and the Maidencreek Old-Time Music Festival (in Blandon PA). Druckemiller’s continuing regular local radio gig “In The Tradition” has aired on WDIY-FM in Allentown PA for the past 16 years, and he also co-hosts the “Sunday Folk” program on the station.
Fall is here! The leaves are changing and that calls for a handful of songs to harken the season. LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1439.mp3 To subscribe via iTunes, click . | To listen using Stitcher, click . Artist / “Title” / CD / … Continue reading →
Tom explores the depths of Nordic folk. Bring your coats! LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1438.mp3 To subscribe via iTunes, click . | To listen using Stitcher, click . Artist / “Title” / CD / Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” … Continue reading →
The next two programs “Gotcha Covered” will feature musicians performing cover tunes. I’ve looked for unusual or especially fine renditions of well known tunes. This week we’ll hear songs from the R&B catalog, the Beatles, Paul Simon and a set … Continue reading →
The next two programs “Gotcha Covered” will feature musicians performing cover tunes. I’ve looked for unusual or especially fine renditions of well known tunes. This week we’ll hear songs from the R&B catalog, the Beatles, Paul Simon and a set … Continue reading →
Jean Ritchie is a musical treasure. Compass Records will shortly release Dear Jean a collection of artists performing selections from Jean’s repertoire of collected and composed tunes. That CD is the inspiration for this week’s program. I submit some of … Continue reading →
West Virginia is rich in traditional music. I have traveled to Elkins each Summer for the past 28 years to the Augusta Workshops. In turn I have become very fond of the music of the Mountain State. Here are a … Continue reading →
Accordions and squeezeboxes from around the world. LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1433.mp3 To subscribe via iTunes, click . | To listen using Stitcher, click . Artist / “Title” / CD / Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of … Continue reading →
A mix of Honky Tonk classics new and old. LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1432.mp3 To subscribe via iTunes, click . | To listen using Stitcher, click . Artist / “Title” / CD / Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / … Continue reading →
This week we complete our two part feature Hopelessly Midwestern focusing on the musical diversity in America’s Heartland. Not all great music happens in the Northeast or West Coast. The Midwest has a sound all its own. LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1431.mp3 To … Continue reading →
There is lots of great music that happens in America’s Heartland. This week The Sing Out! Radio Magazine we use Joel Mabus’ classic tune Hopelessly Midwestern as a guide as we begin a two part feature focusing on musicians from … Continue reading →
