Who We Are

The Folk Music Educator Podcast, Hosted by Phil Kramer and Erin Mae Lewis is a Semi-regularly occurring podcast about the joys, challenges and perils of teaching Bluegrass, Old-time, and other forms of traditional folk music on the internet.

Phil and Erin met when they were kids learning to play music --- years later they re-connected as music teachers working online in the middle of a global pandemic. After several conversations about the lack of available resources for free-lance, online, folk music teachers, they decided to create some and the Folk Music Educator podcast was born.

Starting in January of 2022, Phil and Erin met weekly to discuss exactly how best to record, edit and publish a podcast while also handling the daily expectations of teaching online. Now after a year of beta testing different workflows and recording a total of 8 pilot episodes, they are excited to start sharing their experiences, thoughts and expertise in the world of online music education.