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  • Saturday 11am-1:30pm
  • Saturday 11am-1:30pm
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It's a great day to be alive in the land of 2-Penny Opera! Join Tim and Laurie as they weave their way through the acoustic musical world of folk, Bluegrass, Celtic and Americana. Revisit the folk ballads that brought tears to your eyes; kick off your shoes and dance to the fired-up Irish fiddle, and lightning speed of the New Grass pickers.It's a great day to be alive in the land of 2-Penny Opera! Join Tim and Laurie as they weave their way through the acoustic musical world of folk, Bluegrass, Celtic and Americana. Revisit the folk ballads that brought tears to your eyes; kick off your shoes and dance to the fired-up Irish fiddle, and lightning speed of the New Grass pickers.

DJs: 
Tim Kemper
DJs: 
Laurie Niles

Most Recent Program Blog Entries

  • american pastimes...9/20/11 -

    Rita Hosking/when miners sang/burn
    dry branch fire squad/miners refrain/live @ newbury firehouse
    david grisman bluegrass xpress/old in the way/dgbx
    poor mans whiskey/whiskey in heaven/darkside fo the moonshine
    little willies/tennesse stud/little willies
    old crow medicine show/tennesse pusher/self titled
    tony furtado/staggerlee/american gypsy

  • two penny opera 9/20/11 playlist -

     darrell scott/great day to be alive/aloha from nashville
    roseanne cash/three steps down/rules of travel
    open world/somethings does somethings don't/cold wind
    townes van zandt/ira hayes/the highway kind
    david grisman bluegrass xpress/baby blue eyes/dgbx
    townes van zandt/rake/a gentle evening with townes van zandt

  • summer/late summertime music festival suggestions -

    here are two music festivals worth checking out;

    Pickathon east of Portland OR in Happy Valley Oregon:August 5-7 2011

    and

    Sisters Folk Festival in Sisters OR September 9-11 2011 

     

  • Playlist 6.11.11 -

     Saturday June 11, 2011 11-1:30pm
    artist/title/cd
    darrell scott/great day to be alive/aloha from nashville
    rita hosking/come sunrise/come sunrise
    avett brothers/january wedding/i love & you
    richard thompson/vincent black lightening/action packed
    mumford & sons/dust bowl/sigh no more
    uncle earl/raise a ruckus/raise a ruckus

  • Two Penny Opera spring premiums.... -

     Here's a selection of the cd's offered during this spring pledge drive...

    12 cd's/$75 pledge...Saturday 4/2/11 11am-1:30pm... 530 895 0131

    Thanks for listening!

  • Two Penny Opera Playlist 3.19.11 -

     Saturday 3.19.11
    Darrell Scott/Great Day to Be Alive/Aloha from Nashville
    Chet Atkins/Alley Cat/Essential Chet Atkins
    Amos Lee/Ease Back/At the Lodge
    Beatles/I'll Follow the Sun/Beatles 4 Sale
    Eric Bibb/Livin Lovin and Doin'/Home 2 Me
    Poor Man's Whiskey/Whiskey in Heaven/Dark Side of the Moonshine#2

  • Spring Winter Cleaning...Pledge Membership Drive -

     Two Penny Opera will be hosting the 2011 Spring Membership Drive

    on Saturday 4/2...I'm bundling up stacks of 10 cd's from my music library to offer

    "pledgers/members".  Assorted range of  Americana, Blue Grass, New Grass,

    Folk, Blues, Celtic...music......for a simply pledge...of $75.00.

  • Two Penny Opera Playlist 3.5.11 -

     Darrell Scott/Great Day To Be Alive/Aloha from Nashville
    Olu Dara/Your Lips/
    Robin Linda Williams/You can't Hurry God/Good News
    Amos Lee/Clear Blue Eyes/Mission Bell
    Tim Mollie O'Brien/Don't Let Me Come Home A Stranger/Away out on the Mtn
    Westerleys/Powder Blue Polyester Nightgown/A Blessing in Disguise

  • Two Penny Opera Playlist for 2/12/11 -

    Played Dur. Artist Song Disk Year Label Note
    11:11am 3:00 Darrel scott Great Day to be alive Live Sierral Nevada Brewery 8/24/10
    11:14am 4:55 Websters, The and Nygaard, Scott I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow/Reuben's Train Ten Thousand Miles 2004
    11:19am 3:00 Out of the woodwork so begins the task out of the woodwork

  • ...Playlist 2/5/11 + festival thoughts: -

     Two Penny Opera 11am-1:30
    Darrell Scott/Great Day to Be Alive/Aloha from Nashville
    Little Feat/Rocket in My Pocket/Once upon the Swanee River
    Little Feat/Sailin Shoes/Once Upon the Swanee River
    Chris Smithers/HeyHeyHey/Live @ McCabes
    Subdudes/Next to Me/ Behind the Levee
    Carolina Chocolate Drops& Luminescent Orchestrii/Shortdress Gal/self titled

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