Dean Magraw is an American
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...
ist and composer.
Biography
Magraw was born in
Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in
St. Paul
Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...
. He began playing guitar at the age of 13. Magraw performed in a duo for many years with
Peter Ostroushko
Peter Ostroushko (August 12, 1953 – February 24, 2021) was an American violinist and mandolinist. He performed regularly on the radio program ''A Prairie Home Companion'' and with a variety of bands and orchestras in Minneapolis–Saint Paul an ...
and has also performed with
Tim Sparks,
John Gorka
John Gorka (born July 27, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter. In 1991, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine called him "the preeminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk Movement."
Personal life
Gorka was raised in the Colon ...
and many other artists.
His musical spectrum ranges from world music band
Boiled in Lead
Boiled in Lead is a rock/world-music band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and founded in 1983. Tim Walters of ''MusicHound Folk'' called the group "the most important folk-rock band to appear since the 1970s." Influential record producer and mu ...
to jazz band
Red Planet.
Discography
Solo
*''Broken Silence'' (1994)
Red House
*''Kitchen Man'' (1997) Acoustic Music
*''Seventh One'' (1998) Red House
*''Heavy Meadow'' (2003) Acoustic Music
*''Celtic Hymns'' (2006) Lifescapes Music
*''Music For Healing'' (2007) Lifescapes
*''Foxfire'' (2008)
CandyRat
With others
*''
Duo'' (1991) Red House (with
Peter Ostroushko
Peter Ostroushko (August 12, 1953 – February 24, 2021) was an American violinist and mandolinist. He performed regularly on the radio program ''A Prairie Home Companion'' and with a variety of bands and orchestras in Minneapolis–Saint Paul an ...
)
*''Jaguar at Half Moon'' (1998)
*''Raven'' (2006) Compass Records (with John Williams)
*''Unseen Rain'' (2007) CandyRat (with Jim Anton and JT Bates)
*''Silver'' (2008) (with
Boiled in Lead
Boiled in Lead is a rock/world-music band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and founded in 1983. Tim Walters of ''MusicHound Folk'' called the group "the most important folk-rock band to appear since the 1970s." Influential record producer and mu ...
)
*''Next'' (2008) (with Francois Corneloup)
*''Healing'' (2009) New Folk Records (with Bruce Kurnow)
*''Space Dust'' (2010) GoneJazz Records (with Red Planet)
*''How the Light Gets In'' (2010) Red House (with Marcus Wise)
References
External links
Dean Magraw official site*
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Living people
Musicians from Minneapolis
Guitarists from Minnesota
American male guitarists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Red House Records artists