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00000176-4e34-d3bc-a977-4f7c3a150000On Shasta Serenade, host Barry Hazle mixes up an eclectic brew of Americana, blues, rockabilly, folk, bluegrass and timeless standards from his perch in Oak Run. Shasta Serenade airs Saturdays at 12 p.m.

The Final Rock-A-Barry Weekend

Goodbye, Shasta Serenade

This is the last Rock-a-Barry Weekend show folks – I’m now retired from the Shasta Serenade and The Rock-a-Barry Weekend Shows. Hope you enjoy the show crammed full of old rock n roll, R&B, country and pop music form the 40‘s into the 70’s. it has been a great deal of fun sharing my passion for Americana music over these many years. Remember, go out and see live music – it’s good for your health, and the health of the musicians too J. You can always see me at the Oaksong Society for the Preservation of Way Cool Music concerts in Redding, or the many other concerts and music festivals I attend each year. Until then, stay safe, and I’ll see you at the music.  

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Shasta Serenade Hour 2

Barry was a foundling in an old adobe in Southern California, adopted by nomadic Polish Gypsies, and lived with them until the age of 50. He has had no formal schooling, but learned to play the fiddle by the age of five. Throughout his early years, one could find him fiddling away in the foothills of Northern California tending his Lithuanian goats, making cheese and goat meat Kielbasa. He was renowned for his sheepherder’s bread making. He accidentally baked a rock into a particularly delicious loaf of bread, on which the chief of the gypsy clan broke a bicuspid. The clan seized his shepherd's cane and the Chief broke it in half tossing the parts to the ground. Barry was thus humiliated, and banished for life from the only family he had ever known. (Later, Barry sold the recipe for the Kielbasa to the NHL for a small fortune – they use it in the manufacturing of hockey pucks).