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Music at the Martin
7:00 PM
Friday, May 2, 2008
Kenny Kosek and Mark Gosgrave
"Mark Cosgrove has a powerhouse
sound that could knock down a wall!"
~ Acoustic Guitar Magazine
“Mr. Kosek...is a delightfully facile fiddler who,
despite a city upbringing, has absorbed
the country tradition to such an extent
that it seems second nature.”
~John S. Wilson - The New York Times
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Kenny Kosek is one of the most
recorded fiddlers in America today, having been the feature soloist on
hundreds of albums, soundtracks, and jingles. He can be heard on
recordings by James Taylor, Jerry Garcia, David Byrne, Chaka Kahn, Willie
Nelson, and John Denver. He has been a frequent guest player with the Late
Night Band on Late Night with David Letterman. Kenny's distinctive roots
music-inspired compositions have been used in the documentaries The Way
West, The Donner Party, Harlan County, U.S.A., The High Lonesome Sound,
and the Broadway musicals Big River and Foxfire, NBC's Another World,
CBS's Guiding Light, and Fox's Kirby Kids. His most recent CD, Angelwood
on Rounder Records was called "a lovely piece of work with a strong hint
of the spiritual" (David Hinkley, Daily News); "an album that will
surprise and delight fans of fiddle music in all its many forms"
(Bluegrass Unlimited); and "Kosek's signature sound—a swinging, smooth,
and creamy hot rise that is as hard as it rocks, has exponentially
enhanced every project he's lent it to" (Village Voice).
Mark Cosgrove's distinctive, creative
flatpicking guitar sound is known and respected on both sides of the
Atlantic, through both his own recordings and as a sideman and session
player for Jerry Douglas and others. Although he grew up in a Manhattan
apartment surrounded by classical records, his original musical ambition
was to become a drummer. Immersed in bluegrass and fiddle tunes from an
early age, he has continued to make acoustic music his life's work and
pleasure.
Mark Cosgrove has won the U.S. National Flatpicking
Guitar Championship in Winfield, Kansas and also the Doc Watson Guitar
Championship in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. His flatpick guitar work is
notable not only for power, precision, and tone, but for his fluid high
speed improvisation. Mark is equally proficient in any number of musical
styles and as an accompanist, can back a singer or soloist with taste and
sensitivity.
Kenny on the Web
Mark on the Web
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