Welcome to our Mountain Folk Audio Archive Library. Here you'll find streaming and downloadable audio features.  Enjoy!  Please note: Due to archiving, some material in these shows and interviews will be dated.

Audio Interviews

Leo Kottke Interview

Click on this link to listen to the entire, unedited interview that East Side Dave conducted with guitarist Leo Kottke on 11/13/07 promoting a concert on 12/6/07.  The interview originally aired on the 11/25/07 Mountain Folk Show. 

Dick Boak Interview: Martin Guitar luthier to the Stars!

Left: In 2008 Martin Guitar celebrated 175 years of being in business, providing guitars to local and regional musicians as well as instruments to the likes of Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Willie Nelson, Neil Young and many more iconic players.  Martin Guitars have long been the first choice of bluegrass guitarists.  Martin's Dick Boak was interviewed on WEEU Radio's Feedback talk show on Wednesday, 2/27/08, when he spoke about the company and special custom guitars that he helped to produce.  Click here to see a post broadcast interview with Mr. Boak. (Appx. 5 minutes) Mr. Boak was also interviewed by Dave during a one-hour Mountain Folk radio & web show special that originally aired during the week of 4/13/08 after Dave visited the Martin Guitar factory and took their amazing tour. Click here to listen to the entire one-hour show. 

Elisabeth Von Trapp Interview

An Interview with Elisabeth Von Trapp: During this show we chat with the granddaughter of Captain and Maria Von Trapp of "Sound of Music" fame.  Elisabeth is the daughter of Werner Von Trapp, son of Captain and Maria Von Trapp, and was portrayed in the Sound of Music as son "Kurt."  Werner Von Trapp actually helped to create the Community School of Music and the Arts in Reading, Pennsylvania, the county seat from where our Mountain Folk show originates and Elisabeth was raised for a few years right in our homeplace region!   She is a fantastic vocalist, musician and enjoys skiing!  She's even dabbled with bluegrass music!  We chat about her music, her family, and offer information about a concert that was a fundraiser for the school.  This show originally aired the week of 3/4/07.

Streaming version  Downloadable version

Live Concert Videos with East Side Dave & The Mountain Folk Band; some clips with special guests.

"Golden Slippers" 3:43

East Side Dave & The Mountain Folk Band were the featured headliner band at the 2009 Lyons Fiddle Festival which drew a record crowd of more than 5,500 people.  This crowd even beat out the record-setting crowd from 2008 when the band performed for the festival. About halfway through the band's show, Dave invited fiddling friends Kenny Gehret and Leroy Mumma onstage to join him and fellow Mountain Folk Band members Travis Wetzel, Bob Entler, Mike Hertzog and Dane Kline to play an impromptu jam of the classic fiddle tune Golden Slippers.  Special thanks to the Keith Weidner and the Lyons Fiddle Festival Committee for providing this link and video.

"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" 5:47

East Side Dave & The Mountain Folk Band perform with Grand Old Opry Star Jesse McReynolds and his band during a group sing-a-long with a record-setting audience of about 5,000 people at the 25th Anniversary of the Lyons Fiddle Festival on September 21, 2008, Lyons Station, Pennsylvania.  Musicians in the "jam-finale" also included Luke McKnight, Amanda McReynolds, Garrett Mc Reynolds, Mike Hertzog, Travis Wetzel, Bob Entler, Keith Brintzenhof, Kenny Gehret and others!  Special thanks to the Lyons Fiddle Festival Committee for providing this link and video.

"My Pennsylvania Home" 3:11

This is one of the signature original songs by East Side Dave & The Mountain Folk Band as performed at the 2008 Lyons Fiddle Festival.  Special thanks to Keith Weidner from the festival for his support and provision of this video from the festival.  Clicking on the link above takes you to a page of the Lyons Fiddle Festival website where you can then click on the video option for this live version of the song.

"From the River to the Mountain" - Here is the fully produced video for the official theme song that "East Side Dave" Kline co-wrote with colleague and author Charles J. Adams III for the 250th anniversary of the City of Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1998.  The award-winning video, produced by Berks Community Television, features a version of The Mountain Folk Band with several of Dave's musician friends of note from the local community and many sights from the Greater Reading and Berks County region. (Run time of the video is 6:15 with credits.)
Adobe Flash Player

Specially Archived Mountain Folk Radio & Web Shows

SKI SEASON KICK-OFF SHOWS

Hintertux Glacier opening of 2006/2007 Ski Season Show: This show originally aired the week of 11/5/06, based around live recordings made in the Zillertal Region of the Tirol in Austria; Hintertux Glacier.

Streaming version Downloadable version

North Country Tour 2007/2008 Ski Season Show: This show originally aired the week of 12/16/07, and features holiday music, interviews and chat about the fabulous snow at the Northern Vermont ski resorts of Smugglers' Notch, Stowe and Jay Peak. (Click link to play or right-click to download and play on your portable listening device.)

Philadelphia Zoo and Critter Song Show: This is the entire one-hour show from America's Oldest Zoo with conversation between Dave and their V.P. of Conservation on the topic of species and habitat conservation.  Several "critter" songs are also featured.  (This show originally aired the week of 9/17/06.)  

Streaming version  Downloadable version

Specific sound excerpts and "readings" from past Mountain Folk Radio & Web Shows

Rainbow Bridge: This is a clip that offers comfort to those who have lost a beloved pet.

Streaming version  Downloadable version

What Makes A Dad: This is a sentimental clip that we sometimes use on our Father's Day show. 

Streaming version  Downloadable version

Other Mountain Laurel Productions

The Grundsow Lodge #2 Show - Join Bobby Bubbenmoyer from the Shoemakersville School of Broadcasting, (the S.O.B.), the Mountain Folk Show’s “East Side Dave” Kline and WEEU Radio and Exeter House Publishing’s Charles J. Adams III for the monthly meeting of The Grundsow Lodge #2, a one-hour or so show where the hosts chew the fat about this and that and present some stuff that you’re very unlikely to hear anywhere else.  Don’t tell anyone you’re listening to the “lodge” because, as the hosts say, “it’s a secret!”  Folksy and sometimes on the edge of good taste, The Grundsow Lodge #2 is the place where the hosts are all for one and one ferhuddled!  Somehow the show manages to be entertaining; honest! 

Click on link below to listen or right-click to download and play on your portable device.

The Grundsow Lodge #2: Feb/March 2008 Show

The Grundsow Lodge #2: January 2008 Show

The Grundsow Lodge #2: Dec. 2007 Show

The Grundsow Lodge #2: November 2007 Thanksgiving special

The Grundsow Lodge #2: Oct. 2007 Show

The Grundsow Lodge #2: Sept. 2007 Show

Free Apple iTunes Podcast Information

Get a free subscription to our Mountain Folk Podcast via Apple iTunes.  Simply download Apple iTunes for free and then type Mountain Folk into their browser, then subscribe to the show for free.  By doing this, your computer will automatically look for and download the latest version of our weekly, one-hour, Mountain Folk show which is devoted to bluegrass, folk, old-time, outdoor-themed and mountain music, which also presents interesting interviews and seasonal features about outdoor adventure.  Once downloaded, you can listen to the Mountain Folk Podcast on your computer as desired, or transfer it to your iPod device for listening in your car or anyplace else, wherever and whenever you desire!   Click on the link below and follow the instructions to become get Apple iTunes.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Email: mtnfolk@aol.com

"Mountain Folk" is a Mountain Laurel production. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use or reproduction expressly prohibited. Mountain Folk is a member of the International Bluegrass Music Association. This site contains links to other Internet sites. These links are not endorsements of any products or services in such sites, and no information in such site has been endorsed or approved by this site.