"I wasn't accepted in the traditional fiddle world," the violinist/composer says of his beginnings as a juvenile fiddler, where he introduced new levels of virtuosity to the form. "I had different ...

Mark O'Connor, a three-time Grammy winner and seven-time Country Music Awards Musician of the Year is set to captivate audiences alongside his wife, the acclaimed violinist Maggie O'Connor at the ...

“An Appalachian Christmas” will be at 7 p.m. in UAB’s Alys Stephens Center, 1200 10th Ave. South. Start the holidays off ...

This critically acclaimed program pairs the classical/bluegrass violinist and composer Mark O’Connor with Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash. The extraordinary musical lineup is drawn from ...

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 ...

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, ...

Many American musicians have been invited to play private concerts at the White House over the years. Mark O'Connor has been added to that list in recent years. From a concert O'Connor gave a few ...

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 ...

Last fall, violinist Mark O’Connor released “An Appalachian Christmas,” an album that proved to be so popular that he decided to travel with it this year. His first stop will be the Music Center at ...

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 ...

There has been a notable trend during the past few decades toward music of the "crossover" genre, a sometimes successful but occasionally not so happy blend of musical traditions, styles of ...

We feature another American composer — one who's still living — Mark O'Connor. O'Connor himself plays the violin part in this performance of his "Chief Sitting in the Rain," along with violist Carol ...