Saturday,
March 24, 2012
7:30pm
Peter Ostroushko
&
Dean Magraw
$18 in advance /$20
day of show
Performance next door at the State Theatre in Zumbrota
Doors open at 6:30pm
Trying to find a descriptive label for Peter Ostroushko's music
is
a lot like using words to describe Picasso's painting. It can't be done.
About the best one can do is to declare that, whatever the style or medium,
Ostroushko's music is created with passion and imagination and is
performed with breathtaking precision.
-Tulsa World
“[Magraw] is all over his acoustic guitar, inventing
chords, bending strings,
rolling the bass note like distant thunder and squeezing sounds out
of the instrument that should not, it seems, be possible… This passionate
music, genuine compositions that come from the heart.” Michigan
Daily
Peter Ostroushko, one of the finest mandolin and fiddle players in acoustic music, and guitarist, composer, arranger, and producer Dean Magraw reunite at Crossings on Sat., March 24, at 7:30 pm.
The two legendary musicians played as a duo for 15 years. Both known for bringing together many musical styles, their concerts will leave audiences astounded and with a new appreciation for the similarities among musical traditions.
Because their musical interests roam so widely, each man has teamed up with other musicians for performances and recordings in every style from punk-folk to jazz, Celtic to country.
Ostroushko’s tours have taken him to clubs, performing arts centers, music festivals and theatres across North America and Europe, and he has earned an international reputation as a versatile and dazzling musician and composer. He is at his most passionate playing a rich ethnic mix of music, at the heart of which is his Ukrainian heritage. His term for his mixture of musical styles is “sluz duz,” a phrase roughly meaning “over the edge” or “off his rocker.”
He has recorded with artists such as Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Greg Brown, and Taj Mahal. His first recording session was contributing the mandolin parts for Bob Dylan’s epochal Blood on the Tracks. As a composer, Ostroushko has written works that have been performed by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Sinfonia, the Rochester (Minnesota) Symphony Orchestra, and more.
Magraw’s 30-year career in music has seen him teamed up with the well-known Irish group Altan, Japanese shamisen player Nigel Kennedy, classical violinist Nigel Kennedy, singers Claudia Schmidt and Ruth MacKenzie, and Boiled in Lead. He leads his own jazz trio and quintet, and recorded with Celtic, Indian and Hungarian musicians as well.
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