Bohdan Andrusyshyn papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: IHRC207

Staff Only

Abstract

Collection consists of photocopied news clippings, correspondence, event programs, photographs, creative writings, and other printed matter organized in scrapbook form, also some sound recordings.

Dates

Creation: 1959-1993

Language of Materials

Belarusian

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS

Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.

OWNERSHIP & LITERARY RIGHTS

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HISTORICAL SKETCH

Born in 1958 in New York City, Andrusyshyn began his musical career at an early age. A tenor vocalist and guitarist, he sings in his mother's native Belarusan language. In 1990, Andrusyshyn made his first recordings in Ukrainian, his father's native language. He has built a tremendous following in the Belarusan American community, as well as in Belarus itself. In 1989 he toured in the Soviet Union, donating profits to a charity for Chernobyl victims. He has a degree in journailsm.