Tom Druckenmiller

Tom has been a radio host since 1989. He began programming classical music with the Lehigh Valley Community Broadcasters Association at WMUH, Muhlenberg College's radio station.

Shortly after, Tom began hosting a folk music program Sunday in the Mountains, which featured bluegrass and old-time music. In 1990, he began hosting a classical music program at WXLV, Lehigh Carbon Community College's radio station. Soon after, Tom moved Sunday in the Mountains to WXLV. Later, he began programming Americana music at the station. He is no longer is affiliated with WMUH or WXLV.

Tom served on the programming committee for WDIY and created the folk music programs for the new station. His program, In the Tradition, has been broadcast continuously since WDIY signed on the air in 1995. Tom is also the occasional host of WDIY's Sunday Folk.

Tom produces and hosts the nationally-syndicated program Sing Out! Radio Magazine. The program was initially produced at WDIY but is now created at Little Cat Records Studio, Tom's home production studio. The weekly program is syndicated in over 30 markets and available as a podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, and the Sing Out! website. The program still airs on WDIY each Sunday, as well. He has also written for the Sing Out! magazine.

Tom is a retired nurse and a lifelong musician. He teaches old-time banjo and guitar at his home studio and at Meadowood Music in Blandon, PA. He performs with his wife Betty, his son Nathan, and his friend (and fellow WDIY volunteer on-air host) Norm Williams. Tom has also been active at the Augusta Heritage Workshops at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia as a student, teacher, and coordinator since 1986. In the past, he taught a radio production class at Augusta. Tom studied classical music at Kutztown State College (University) in the early 1970s.

Tom's radio philosophy is: "It's about the music, not about you, so get out of the way."