When it comes to folk music, juniors Dorothy Wood and Neva Hauser know what they are talking about. The twosome form The NEDO Band and have performed and recorded their music over the past years.

Wood and Hauser’s band began when Wood combined her talents and started to write songs. “When I started playing guitar three years ago, I saw you get more into the music zone if you’re singing,” Wood said. “It’s really weird. I never appreciated music very much when I was younger. In ninth grade I started putting some of my poetry to my guitar and it just flowed.”

Since then, Wood has been writing songs about her life and passions. She decided to ask Hauser, who has been playing the double bass for eight years, if she was interested in practicing some songs with her. “Dorothy asked me if I wanted to play some songs that she wrote,” Hauser said. “So we tried it out and continued because it was so fun.”

Hauser and Wood formed The NEDO Band, a title that came from a combination of their first names. Junior Alexandra Codina said she likes the character of the music. “It’s an eclectic mix of folk style music,” Codina said. “It’s not something you hear a lot.”

Wood and Hauser have already produced one CD, “Notice Eternity, Deny Observation,” and hope to finish their second one, “Psychedelic Aptitudes of a Sarcastic Revolution,” in a few months. “We recorded with a couple of different people,” Hauser said. “My mom is a drummer, so she has a lot of musical connections who helped us. We ended up taking the recording that was more amateur because it sounded more natural.”

The NEDO Band’s first big performance was at the Art in the Redwoods Festival in Gualala on the northern coast of California this past summer. “What we did was we sent a CD of a few of our songs and they wanted us to come play,’’ Wood said. “On the first day we were background music for people appreciating the art that was on display, and on the second day we were on the main stage, the amphitheater, in the middle of the redwood forest.”

Hauser thinks that out of all of their performances, the one in Gualala has been the most enjoyable. “That has been our biggest performance but we’ve played in coffee shops, too, “ Hauser said. “We go to the Open Mic Nights as well.”

Outside of performing, Wood says that writing music has brought her much pleasure. “We have a good time making up songs,” she said. “I don’t want to consider music as a career. Music is just my way of being.” Hauser has different aspirations. “I think it would be pretty cool to be a professional musician,” she said.