Blazing His Own Trail with the Mandolin
Peter Ostroushko’s death is a loss for all music lovers. Here is a profile I wrote of Peter in 1996 for MandoZine Magazine.
8 min readFeb 25, 2021
About 20 years ago, mandolinist Peter Ostroushko experienced an epiphany while playing his repertoire of traditional American music at a Minneapolis coffeehouse. “I was going through stuff…
