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Biography
Infobox musical artist | name = Peter Ostroushko| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = Peter Ostroushko| alias =| Born = August 12, 1953 Minneapolis, Minnesota | death_date =| instrument = Mandolin , fiddle , guitar | genre = Americana (music)|Americana , Folk music|folk | occupation = Musician | years_active =| label = Rounder Records|Rounder , Red House Records|Red House | associated_acts = Robin and Linda Williams , Dean Magraw| website = http://www.peterostroushko.com/ www.peterostroushko.com| notable_instruments = Peter Ostroushko (born August 12, 1953) is an United States|American violin ist and mandolin ist.
Background and career
Of Ukraine|Ukrainian ancestry, Ostroushko grew up in northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minneapolis . He has released numerous recordings and is a regular performer on the A Prairie Home Companion radio program.
Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Mandolin
Ostroushko's first recording session was an uncredited mandolin player on Bob Dylan|Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks . http://www.bjorner.com/DSN02710%201974%20Blood%20On%20The%20Tracks%20recording%20sessions.htm Blood on the Tracks recording sessions.A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks, Andy Gill, Kevin Odegard, Da Capo Press. 2004 He has toured with Robin and Linda Williams , Norman Blake (American musician)|Norman Blake and Chet Atkins . Ostroushko also worked with Emmylou Harris , Willie Nelson , Johnny Gimble , Greg Brown (folk musician)|Greg Brown , John Hartford and the New Orleans-based rock/blues band The Radiators http://www.theradiators.org/index3.php, among many others.
Orchestral
Ostroushko has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra . Ostroushko's compositions have been performed by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Sinfonia , the Rochester Symphony Orchestra, the Des Moines Symphony and the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra. In 2009, he played with the Minnesota Youth Symphonies at Orchestra Hall. Music from Heart of the Heartland was used by Ken Burns for the PBS documentary Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery and his arrangement of "Sweet Betsy from Pike" was used in Burns' Mark Twain (documentary)|Mark Twain .
Television and radio
Ostroushko has appeared on television on Austin City Limits , Late Night with David Letterman , and '' Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood '', as well as performing regularly on Garrison Keillor|Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion .
Awards
Ostroushko received a regional Emmy award for his soundtrack to the 2005 PBS Series Minnesota: A History of the Land . http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/Feature_Stories/Bell_debuts_TV_production_unit.html University of Minnesota article on A History of the Land.
Personal
Ostroushko is married to public radio producer Marge Ostroushko . Marge Ostroushko
Discography
Sluz Duz Music (1985) Rounder Records|Rounder
Down the Streets of My Old Neighborhood (1986) Rounder
Buddies of Swing (1987) Red House Records|Red House
Blue Mesa (Peter Ostroushko album)|Blue Mesa (1989) Red House
Duo (Peter Ostroushko and Dean Magraw album)|Duo (1991) Red House (with Dean Magraw)
Heart of the Heartland (1995) Red House
Pilgrims on the Heart Road (1997) Red House
Sacred Heart (Peter Ostroushko album)|Sacred Heart (2000) Red House
Meeting on Southern Soil (2002) Red House (with Norman Blake (American musician)|Norman Blake )
Coming Down from Red Lodge (2003) Red House
Minnesota: A History of the Land (2005) Red House
The Heartland Holiday Concert (2005) Red House
Postcards (Peter Ostroushko album)|Postcards (2006) Red House
The Mando Boys Live: Holstein Lust (2006) Borderland
Peter Joins the Circus (2008)
When the Last Morning Glory Blooms (2010) (Red House)
References
Reflist
External links
http://www.peterostroushko.com/ Peter Ostroushko official site
Audio clip: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/popup.php? name=phc/2010/02/20/phc_20100220_64& starttime=00:45:50& endtime=00:51:10 Lafayette/ Turtle Dove - Peter Ostroushko, Shoe Band, GK and Andra Suchy, 2/20/2010.
Persondata | NAME =Ostroushko, Peter | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =August 12, 1953 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Ostroushko, Peter Category:1953 births Category:American fiddlers Category:Living people Category:American mandolinists Category:American people of Ukrainian descent|Ukrainian-Americans Category:People from Minneapolis, Minnesota Category:Musicians from Minnesota
