Jason Busniewski Music

Jason is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma School of Music (BMA) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (MA), where he is currently a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology. In addition to Western classical music, Jason has studied music from Ireland, Scotland, India, Indonesia, the Middle East, West Africa, and North America and performed with various ensembles at venues from Nordic Fest in Decorah, IA, to Egypt’s famed Cairo Opera House. Jason has been an active Irish fiddler for more than two decades and is currently working to preserve the multiethnic old-time music of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest, teaching, performing, and serving on the board of directors for Folklore Village in Dodgeville, WI. He is a Fulbright scholar and the recipient of an American-Scandinavian Foundation Folk Arts and Cultural Traditions Fellowship to produce a book and recording of the music of Wisconsin fiddler Otto Rindlisbacher.