DadGrass Podcast

kids, family · EN

DadGrass Podcast is a family-friendly folk music podcast that uses American roots music to explore history, storytelling, and shared cultural memory, starting where modern podcasts are played. Hosted by a public-school music educator and folk/Americana musician Tim McWilliams, and written in collaboration with his wife Laura McWilliams, a Speech-Language Pathologist, DadGrass Podcast introduces kids (and the adults raising them) to the songs that have shaped American life: labor songs, regional folk, protest music, and storytelling ballads that help explain who we are and where we came from. Each short episode centers on a single song, its origins, the people who sang it, the moment it came from, and why it has lasted. Rather than telling listeners what to think or believe, DadGrass invites families to listen closely, ask questions, and notice how music carries values, conflict, hope, and identity across generations. In a media environment dominated by fast con