Calling Mark O’Connor a bluegrass fiddler is accurate, but it is woefully incomplete. The mostly Americana-centric violinist, who appears this Friday with his wife Maggie at Hopewell’s Beacon Theatre, ...
Ever since bursting on the scene in 1974 with a recording contract as a 13-year old fiddle and flat-picking guitar champion, Mark O’Connor has lent his instrumental virtuosity to the worlds of folk, ...
Mark O'Connor's story starts ordinarily enough. He grew up in a suburb of Seattle, where his father scraped by as a construction worker and his mother was a homemaker. But everything changed when he ...
The Beckley Concert Association season will kick off Thursday, Aug. 24, with a national fiddle, guitar and mandolin champion and his Grammy Award-winning wife. Mark and Maggie O’Connor will take the ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Mark O’Connor will celebrate the release of his “Crossing Bridges Memoir Trilogy” with a show at The Egg on March 11. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are available now online.
Banjo player Bela Fleck and bassist Edgar Myer are two important current figures in American music. They got together in the NPR studios to play some of the banjo and bass music they take out on tour.
O'Connor's road to joining the upper echelons of acoustic musicians began when he first laid hands on a bow at age 11 after seven years of studying classical guitar. It was a chance to finally scratch ...
The Center for the Arts is pleased to present three-time Grammy award winning Mark O’Connor’s “An Appalachian Christmas”. Mark O’Connor is a composer and fiddler and has developed several arrangements ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Grammy-winners Mark and Maggie O'Connor will debut their new album, Life After ...
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Mark O'Connor about his memoir, Crossing Bridges, on his journey from multi-instrumentalist child prodigy to solo... Prodigious fiddler Mark O'Connor celebrates 50 years ...