Local Musicians Tim and Ryan O'Neill to be Featured on tpt

 

NEW PRAGUE, MN (March 4, 2005) - Minnesota-based musicians Tim and Ryan O'Neill will be featured performers on Twin Cities Public Television beginning Monday, March 7.   

 

The piano-playing brothers are featured in a one-hour show, Irish Pianos with the O'Neill Brothers, which highlights selections from their three CDs of Celtic-themed music, Meeting of the Waters, A Notre Dame Experience, and Here Come the Irish. Guest musicians will be joining the brothers to perform songs, including "Danny Boy," "Molly Malone," and the theme from the movie Rudy. Between performances on their grand pianos, the O'Neill's will talk about their lives and careers.

 

The program airs on Channel 2 on Monday, March 7, at 2 p.m., during the station's spring pledge drive. It will be repeated on:

                   Thursday, March 10, at 11 p.m.

                    Friday, March 11, at 5 a.m.

                    Monday, March 14, at 11 p.m.

                    Tuesday, March 15, at 5 a.m.

Television viewers watching their show this month will have a chance to receive the musicians' CDs as a gift for becoming members of tpt.

 

Tim and Ryan O'Neill, New Prague natives and current Twin Cities residents, have sold more than 1 million CDs - without being associated with a major record label. Along the way, the brothers have written and performed music for HBO (including music for "Sex and the City"), NBC and ESPN; and performed for President George H.W. Bush. In February 2005, their 3 CD Box Set of romantic songs, From the Heart, hit No. 30 on the Billboard Catalog Album chart and No 1 on the New Age Catalog chart. And their wedding album, A Day to Remember, quickly became the best-selling CD on weddingchannel.com and theknot.com.