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Mandolin on: "Weightless" - 2001 Ted has been performing professionally and semi- professionally for the past 25+ years in various Bluegrass, Swing and Country-Rock and Scandi- navian Roots bands. A studio musician on several CD projects including Kim Solem's "In Just One Night" and the New Rivertown Rats - "Blue Sundress" Arna Rennan's "Nordic Shores", Susan Spencer's Newfoundland Album. He also has designed a number of CD album jackets for area musicians and assisted Red House Record's Nod to Bob Dylan CD jacket design. |
| He has recorded soundtrack music for two documentary movies. "Spies in Steel" starring Ed Asner and "For the Common Good". The movies were produced by film maker Tom Selinski. Both movies deal with the labor movements and early life in the Northland He has shared the stage and taught workshops with mandolin greats as Jethro Burns, Butch Baldasari and Peter Ostrousko to name a few. While mandolin is his main instrument he also plays the fiddle, guitar, kantele and the nyckleharpa. He has been a musician union member for over 25 years. Ted also teaches the mandolin in the Duluth area. He is also a 20 year veteran graphic artist with the Duluth News Tribune and has won a couple of National awards for his design work. He attended the Minneapolis College of Art & Design and the University of Minnesota, studying Photography and Illustrating. Ted has also worked as a radio announcer/programmer for both public and commercial broadcasting stations holding a 3rd Class radiotelephone license. Born in Mora, Minnesota, Ted has been a Duluth resident for over 40 years. | |
