Michael & Carrie Kline

Links to recent broadcasts:

  • Tune in to the Talking Across the Lines podcast or listen online here.

Check out our live performance video here.

Painting by Michael Doig.
  • "Eye-opening, provoking, educational. Carrie and Michael have so much to share and are great teachers. They planned a wonderful week for us. I can’t say enough good things about my Oral History class and teachers."
    -Evaluation from "Listening for a Change" Student
  • "Michael and Carrie Kline have introduced hundreds of students to the sounds and songs of their community. . . . There is no one we've encountered who can mesmerize fifty 5th graders at once with songs of love and tribulation."
    -Nathan Hayes
    Program Manager, The Mountain Institute, Circleville, WV
  • "Michael and Carrie Kline are not only exceptional musicians with a great knowledge of their music and its roots, but they have a wonderful ability to use their music to educate audiences about historical and cultural events as well. Very few musicians I've heard can transport listeners so fully to another time and place as they can. "
    -Elizabeth Altemus
    Pendleton County Committee for the Arts, Franklin, WV
  • "Michael and Carrie Kline have a long-respected tradition in the folklore and music worlds. They are recipients of several fellowships which have led to numerous recordings. This top-notch research comes out on stage, captivating the audience and stirring the emotions."
    -Sparky & Rhonda Rucker
    Modern Day American Folk and Blues Legends
  • "Their voices carry the songs with truth and authenticity, without a hint of pretense or affectation, and their guitar accompaniments are excellent, just what the songs call for. With their vast knowledge of West Virginia history and culture you can be assured their concerts are not only a treat for the ear, but a journey into the depth and breadth of the real Appalachia and beyond."
    -Magpie
    Bringing the People's History Alive Through Music
  • "Thank you . . . for your great work. . . . I'm finding so much inspiration in the stories. What I love about your interviews is your immediate trust, closeness, and rapport with the narrators. You are truly seeking their embodied knowledge and not extracting information as it pertains to your research interests. You have … the closest kind of understanding of another person. I also appreciate the diversity of voices included and … the narrator is defining what … matters most. Also, your interviews sound good with their crispness and high-quality recording. "
    -Molly Graham
    Oral Historian/Program Manager, Voices Oral History Archives of NOAA.gov
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