Nature Mountain Radio streams contemporary folk, folk rock, new acoustic, and world folk music built for unwinding, meditating, or just sitting still with a cup of coffee, broadcasting through the Live365 platform from a production company based in New York's Catskill Mountains. You can stream it live and free right now on Radio Shuffle, wherever you are in the world.
Built By a Woodstock Production House
Nature Mountain Radio is run by Ariel Starr Productions, a small multi-service outfit founded in 1991 and based in Woodstock, New York, according to the company's own about page. Woodstock sits in the Catskill Mountains, the same lake-and-forest landscape the station's name and its programming both lean into, and the company's founder, Cynthia Soroka Dunn, runs the operation alongside work in photography, music management, and book publishing.
A Playlist Built Around One Specific Feeling
The station's own pitch is refreshingly literal about what it's going for: music that puts listeners in touch with the feeling of going away to the mountains and sitting by a lake, calm, according to its Live365 station page. That translates into a rotation of contemporary folk and folk rock artists, layered with new acoustic and world folk tracks meant to sit quietly in the background rather than demand attention, the kind of programming built for reading, hiking, or falling asleep rather than driving with the windows down.
Streaming Through Internet Radio's Oldest Survivor
Nature Mountain Radio broadcasts through Live365, a platform that launched in Foster City, California back in 1999 and is now the longest continuously operating internet radio platform in existence, according to Wikipedia's history of the service. Live365 pioneered bundled music licensing for webcasters early on and helped negotiate the Small Webcaster Settlement Acts of 2002 and 2009, agreements that let small, independent stations like this one pay royalties as a share of revenue rather than a flat per-listener rate that would have priced most hobbyist broadcasters out of existence. The platform closed briefly in 2016 before relaunching in 2017 under new ownership, giving stations like Nature Mountain Radio a continued home on the same infrastructure that helped legitimize independent internet radio in the first place.
Tune In
Built in the Catskills and streamed through one of internet radio's oldest platforms, Nature Mountain Radio offers a small, specific kind of calm. Stream it free on Radio Shuffle to hear it live.