
Blue Mesa (Peter Ostroushko album)
Encyclopedia
Blue Mesa is the an album by American
fiddle
and mandolin
player Peter Ostroushko
, released in 1989.
United States
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fiddle
Fiddle
The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
and mandolin
Mandolin
A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
player Peter Ostroushko
Peter Ostroushko
Peter Ostroushko is an American violinist and mandolinist.-Background and career:Of Ukrainian ancestry, Ostroushko grew up in northeast Minneapolis...
, released in 1989.
Track listing
- "International Medley:Lost Indian/Reel of the Hanged Man" (Traditional) – 5:27
- "Marjorie's Waltz, No. 2" (Ostroushko) – 3:35
- "Horizontal Hold" (Garrison KeillorGarrison KeillorGary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio...
, Ostroushko) – 4:13 - "Irish Medley: Sweeps Hornpipe/The Scholar/Ban Anti AR Lar " (Traditional) – 4:25
- "The Orthodox Priest" (Ostroushko) – 3:01
- "Polka Medley: The Charleston Polka/The B.T. Polka" (Ostroushko) – 4:20
- "Bonnie Mulligan's" (Ostroushko) – 3:54
- "Monkey on a Dog Cart" (Traditional) – 2:04
- "Bury Me Beneath the Willow" (Traditional) – 4:51
- "The Highwire Hornpipe" (Ostroushko) – 3:26
- "Ukrainian Medley" (Traditional) – 3:48
- "Blue Mesa" (Ostroushko) – 4:15
- "Jig Medley: Ostroushko's #1/Ostroushko's #2" (Ostroushko) – 4:04
Personnel
- Peter Ostroushko – mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
, fiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
, mandolaMandolaThe mandola or tenor mandola is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola , a fifth lower than a mandolin...
, mandocelloMandocelloThe mandocello is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. It has eight strings in four paired courses, tuned in 5ths like a mandolin, but is larger, and tuned CC-GG-dd-aa . It is to the mandolin what the cello is to the violin.-Construction:Mandocello construction is similar to the...
, vocals - Norman BlakeNorman Blake (American musician)Norman Blake is an instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. In a career spanning more than 50 years Blake has played in a number of folk and Country groups...
– guitar - Nancy Blake – celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
- Bruce Calin – bass
- Dean Magraw – guitar
- Daíthí Sproule – guitar
- Paddy O'Brien – accordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
- John Anderson – bodhránBodhránThe bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
- Sean O'Driscoll – banjoBanjoIn the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
, tenor banjo
Production notes
- Peter Ostroushko – producer, mixing
- Bob Feldman – executive producer
- Tom Mudge – engineer, mixing
- Marge Ostroushko – mixing
- John Scherf – assistant engineer
- Craig Thorson – assistant engineer
- Ann Marsden – photography
- George Ostroushko – artwork, design, illustrations