When the Independence Day celebration rolls around each year, we can always count on our bluegrass instrumentalists to come through with some patriotic music for us all to enjoy. Here are a couple that put some banjo and fiddle into the
Mark OConnor
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Mark O’Connor shares his career as an American Master
Mark & Maggie O’Connor on Watson Stage at Merlefest on April 28, 2019 - Photo by Alisa B. Cherry Mark O’Connor is a phenomenon. That’s not a label to be taken lightly. With 45 albums of his own recorded over the
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Photos from Susie’s Cause 2017
Sierra Hull at the 2017 Susie's Cause Bluegrass/Folk festival - photo by Frank Baker Frank Baker was on hand for the 2017 Susie's Case Bluegrass Folk Festival in Cockeyesville, MD earlier this month. This was the third year the event has
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Rounder reissues classic Mark O’Connor albums
In tandem with the release of Coming Home, their recent album for O'Connor Band, Rounder Records has reached back into the vault and issued digital re-releases of three Mark O'Connor albums from the 1970s. These were recorded and released as LPs while
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Coming Home video from O’Connor Band
The O'Connor Band has released a new music video for the song Coming Home, the title track from their new Rounder album. It's a fun, summery video featuring fiddle virtuoso Mark O'Connor with his family back on the streets of Seattle
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Always Do video from O’Connor Family Band
One of the great pleasures of age is the experience of having watched life unfold around you, both your own and those of younger people you have encountered along the way. I can recall Mark O'Connor when he was a gangly
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O’Connor Family Coming Home August 5
Rounder Records has announced August 5 as the release date for Coming Home, the debut album from the O'Connor Band featuring Mark O'Connor. For Mark, who dominated US fiddle competitions as a teen in the 1970s, he's coming home to the music that
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Jerusalem Ridge video from the O’Connors
Mark and Maggie O'Connor have released a second video from their upcoming Duo CD, Mark's arrangement of the classic Bill Monroe tune, Jerusalem Ridge. This is one that bluegrass fans know well, though Mark refers to it in his notes as Jerusalem’s
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F.C.’s Jig video from Mark and Maggie O’Connor
Mark & Maggie O'Connor have released a music video for one of the tunes on the upcoming album, Duos. It's a jig Mark composed and performs with his new bride, Maggie, which he call's F.C.'s Jig, an adaptation from O'Connor's Fiddle
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Treetop Angel from Wisewater
Here's a brand new Christmas song, written by Jim Shirey of the acoustic trio Wisewater. Jim plays guitar with the group, which also features Mark O'Connor's son Forrest on mandolin and vocals, and Kate Lee on fiddle and vocals. The song is