Mark OConnor

Just as the bluegrass world was digesting the wizardry of young fiddle prodigy Mark O'Connor in the late 1970s, we had to also come to terms with his equality stunning guitar work. He had already won the Grand Master Fiddle

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 & 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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