Mirko Kolesar

Ruthenian-American tamburitza player (b. August 25, 1897 Kucura, Bačka, Serbia [then Austria-Hungary] – d. October 27, 1954 Los Angeles, CA) After emigrating to New York in 1922, Mirko Kolesvar joined the Jorgovan Tamburitza Orchestra, which whom he recorded in the 1920s for Columbia and Victor and in the 1940s for the Detroit label Zora (2). Later, he led his own Blue Danube Orchestra.