A product of America's rich aural folk tradition as well as classical music, Mark O'Connor's creative journey began at the feet of a pair of musical giants. The first was the folk fiddler and ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...