Folk Duo performs original songs
about growing older

Opus 70 is a Southwest Florida-based folk duo. Mark & Barbara Johnston perform original songs – spliced together with a little storytelling – mostly about growing older. Many are humorous. Some are love songs. A few are serious. They all tell a story. They have been described as funny, touching and irreverent.Their new CD, all original material, includes six previously unrecorded songs as well as more than a dozen others. Mark took up songwriting late in life as another means of creative expression. A West Virginia native, he grew up in Roanoke, Virginia and – after graduating from the University of Maryland – spent most of his working life in Massachusetts and Florida. He plays guitar, a little 5-string banjo and mandolin. He and his wife Barbara – she grew up in upstate New York – met singing in a church choir and continue that regularly when at home in Florida. While Mark is the chief writer, Barbara is very much involved in editing, arranging and interpreting songs and provides the close harmonies that distinguish their sound.

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