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Performing Arts presents Bluegrass Band

Dominican University’s Performing Arts Series presents Nashville-based—by way of Russia—b luegrass band Bering Strait on Saturday, March 19 at 8:00 p.m. in the Lund Auditorium, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest. Opening for the band will be Chicago favorite Anna Fermin’s Trigger Gospel.

Named after the waterway that divides Russia from America, this bluegrass band does just the opposite—it brings two cultures together. Bering Strait’s seven members were born in Obninsk, Russia and started playing music together as youngsters enrolled in the same music school. Today, the classically trained musicians play country and bluegrass as if they were born and raised in Tennessee.

Making the leap to America in 1998, the band went through a number of record deals, detailed in the documentary The Ballad of Bering Strait, before debuting its first release, the self-titled Bering Strait. The record received a Grammy Award nomination in 2003 for Best Instrumental Track.

The musicians have made a successful journey from Cold War childhoods to the Billboard Top 100 and have been featured on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes. Their eagerly anticipated second record will appear this summer, building on the buzz generated by their first release. The group thrills audiences with a spellbinding mix of traditional lullabies, ethnic folk songs and newly crafted country pop in a multitude of languages.

Tickets for this performance are $25 and $35. To reserve tickets or to receive further information, please call the Dominican University box office at (708) 524-6942.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the School of Business, the School of Education and the Graduate School of Social Work. In the 2005 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the seventh consecutive year.