Fiddler magazine has come up with a unique way to celebrate their 20th year of publishing. They have released a retrospective CD/book package called Fiddlers 20 which includes transcriptions and recordings by 20 artists featured in the magazine over that same
The Berklee College of Music in Boston has announced a new Summer String Program to be held next year with Mark O'Connor. It will be held June 27 through July 1, 2011 immediately following the Mark O'Connor String Camp on
We've written previously about the new American Roots Music Program at The Berklee College of Music in Boston, which got its official kickoff earlier this month. Mark O'Connor spent a week on campus conducting workshops, master classes and interacting with
Fiddle virtuoso Mark O'Connor has been showing up everywhere of late. He is on the cover of the September 2009 issue of Strings Magazine, and received a profile in the September 7 edition of The New Yorker's Talk Of The Town
Rounder is preparing to release a compilation project of John Hartford's music on September 22. Entitled, Good'le Days: Essential Recordings, the new CD is part of Rounder's budget-minded Perfect 10 Series, each of which includes ten tracks from an important Rounder
Strings magazine has just released a nice profile piece on fiddler/violinist Mark O'Connor. The article only briefly covers O'Connor's past, with the bulk of the content focused on his current and future projects. Among these are his continued involvement with music
The gala events surrounding the inauguration of our new president are about to get underway, and I've just learned that banjoist Bela Fleck and fiddler/violinist Mark O'Connor will take part. Bela and O'Connor have accepted an invitation to perform with Wynton
The 2009 Mark O'Connor String Camp will be held in New York City, the first time the roving clinic has touched down in the Big Apple. The camp will run from July 27th - 31st, 2009 in multiple locations within a
