Biography

Since 1984 the Crossing has been creating energetic and moving music in the celtic tradition. With intricate arrangements of traditional and original tunes, they carry on the good storytelling found in the celtic lands. Add their rich, harmonizing vocals and their proficiency on many instruments, and the result is captivating and energizing. When not out performing, the members of The Crossing can be found back at home in inner-city Chicago, where they live and work with a group that serves the region's poor, homeless, and disenfranchised on a full-time basis. This constant closeness to the needy has shaped the band’s unique perspective on both the simple pleasures, and the universal struggles, of the human experience. Like many of the great celtic artists before them theirs is a tune with her feet anchored in the grit and grime of the ground, her eyes fixed heavenward, and her hands outstretched to her neighbors. “Our deepest hope,” Krogh insists, “is that our friends can glean some of the peace, joy, and fun that this music has brought to us. Like the musicians of old, we’re here to serve. This music is a gift, and there’s no better way to honor the giver of a great gift than to keep giving it.” The Crossing is: Tony Krogh (guitar, bouzouki, bodhran, pipes, banjo); Mark Hall (flute, whistles, harp, bodhran); Jennifer Ingerson (violin); and Hilde Bialach (cello, guitar, keyboard); and Eric Clayton (guitar, bouzouki, bodhran).