BOULDER, Colo. -- Mark O'Connor is taking his violin on a voyage beyond the musical map, to places he has yet to discover. The fiddler, violin virtuoso and composer knows one thing about the course he ...
Classical concerto meets American fiddle tradition. Mark O’Connor’s Fiddle Concerto blends bluegrass, folk and classical music, with O’Connor himself as the soloist. Hear this distinctly American ...
Violinist Mark O’Connor is renowned as a crossover artist whose approach and compositions straddle the fuzzy lines between different musical styles, especially jazz, Americana and classical music.
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, ...
Mark O’Connorplays The Egg Saturday (March 11) as part of his Crossing Bridges tour marking the release of his memoir of the same name.Chet Atkins called Mark O’Connor the greatest fiddler that ever ...
In the American melting pot of music, Mark O'Connor serves as the caldron. He studied Benny Thomasson, who's credited with framing the modern age of American fiddling in the 1940s. O'Connor also ...
Elegance marks the music of Mark O’Connor. He plays as fine a violin as Bill Monroe played the mandolin. Different style, his own style, a pioneering style – that’s Mark O’Connor. The Johnson City ...