Above: Dave served as the MC with guitarist Leo Kottke at a concert on 12/6/07 at the Scottish Rite Theater in West Reading, PA.

Above: Dave performs at the 2007 Halloween Ghost Story & Song dinner theater.

Above: 10/19/07 - Performing as the "official musician of Berks County Farmland Preservation" East Side Dave invited elected officials; county commissioners, state senators, state agriculture folks, to join him in singing "This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land" as a part of the celebration when the 53,000th acre of farmland was preserved in Berks County, our Mountain Folk home county.  We now rank 3rd in the USA for farmland preservation!

Above: East Side Dave entertains an audience of thousands at the annual series of Berks County Arts Council Bandshell Concerts in Reading's City Park at the Volunteer Fireman's Memorial Bandshell facility.

Above: East Side Dave interviews a traditional button box musician who is a member of the original Enzian Folk Music Gruppe from Austria.  This photo was taken at the 21st Gaufest put on by the GTV Edelweiss Dancers at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.  Our live broadcast from this event was the first-ever live radio broadcast from a Gaufest and was part of a Super Alpine live broadcast morning with Dave & Kaz from WEEU Radio. 

Over three thousand people from all over the world attended Gaufest 2007 which is the bi-annual gathering of  traditional folk dance (Gau) groups.  Gaufest is like the Olympics of traditional mountain folk dancing, music, food, beverages, clothing and customs.  Gold, silver and bronze medals were awarded to dancers in many categories.

Above: Our group skied and visited the Pyrenees Mountains of Andorra, a country between the South of France and Northern Spain.  3/07  Thanks for the photo Char!

Above: Mountain Folk's East Side Dave and Joe Marnell, president of the Reading Liederkranz Song & Sport club celebrate a record crowd at the Reading Liederkranz Oktoberfest '06, high atop Reading, Pennsylvania's Mount Penn.

Above: Going to the dogs; Emma, Sunny, Erika & Angel.

Above: (February, 2007)  Walking the "girls" in mid-winter out on the peninsula of Middlecreek Wildlife Sanctuary, PA.  The flocks of snowgeese & swans were just starting to arrive for the new season of migration.

Above: Sunny fetches the glove.

Above: East Side Dave conducts the Hofbrau Haus Band at the Hofbrau Haus in Munich, Germany, after bringing the ski group back from an adventure in Mayrhofen, Austria and the Zillertal Valley.  March - 2002

Above: A rare vintage photo!  The Mountain Folk Band performing at the Berks County Fiddle Festival, (1997); Stavros Flamporis on upright bass, "East Side Dave" Kline on banjo, Bob Entler on mandolin, Fred Bernardo on guitar.

Above: (December 1997) Dave <in the center> performed with the Reading Musical Foundation's Holiday Jam Band during a live concert and TV & Radio simulcast.

Above: Roy Clark with East Side Dave after Dave & The Mountain Folk Band opened a concert for Roy in 2001.

Above: Ready for an Austrian/Sud-Tyrolean music session. 

Below:  Blues guitar great BB King discusses his guitar "Lucille" with Dave at Riverfest - 1989.

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