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Mark OConnor

  • Mark O’Connor releases two books and a CD from his early years

    March 2, 2023 | by John Lawless

    Those of us who were following bluegrass music in the 1970s were most fortunate to watch the emergence of a true prodigy in Mark O'Connor. Before even hitting his teens, Mark was wowing musicians with his fiddle, mandolin, and guitar playing.

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  • Mashbluegrass D-28 releases from O’Connor, Rice, and Crary

    November 8, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Mark O'Connor has released as a single an historic recording from 1978 that is sure to excite fans of flatpicking guitar all over the world. It's a lost track from the sessions for his landmark album, Markology, which demonstrated that

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  • Mark O’Connor picks up his guitar again for Markology II

    April 19, 2021 | by John Lawless

    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

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  • Some patriotic music for your 4th

    July 4, 2019 | by John Lawless

    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

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  • Mark O’Connor shares his career as an American Master

    May 10, 2019 | by Lee Zimmerman

    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

    September 18, 2017 | by Frank Baker

    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

    September 13, 2016 | by John Lawless

    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

    September 8, 2016 | by John Lawless

    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

    July 21, 2016 | by John Lawless

    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

    June 9, 2016 | by John Lawless

    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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