LIFE INFLUENCES ART: Acclaimed multigenre fiddlers Mark and Maggie O'Connor have built arrangements and workshops around their concept of violin duos. Photo by Jason Goodman “In music of the 1700s, ...

Ever since bursting on the scene in 1974 with a recording contract as a 13-year old fiddle and flat-picking guitar champion, Mark O’Connor has lent his instrumental virtuosity to the worlds of folk, ...

A product of America's rich aural folk tradition as well as classical music, Mark O'Connor's creative journey began at the feet of a pair of musical giants. The first was the folk fiddler and ...

Mark O'Connor's story starts ordinarily enough. He grew up in a suburb of Seattle, where his father scraped by as a construction worker and his mother was a homemaker. But everything changed when he ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Mark O’Connor will celebrate the release of his “Crossing Bridges Memoir Trilogy” with a show at The Egg on March 11. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are available now online.

Mark O’Connor always has been a musical risk taker, so this new chapter in his life, this homecoming of sorts, probably makes sense. “It’s kind of par for the course for me,” says O’Connor, who will ...

Mark O'Connor has lived and worked in Nashville, San Diego and New York City. But the Grammy-winning violinist, fiddler and composer who grew up in Mountlake Terrace and began winning fiddle ...

Banjo player Bela Fleck and bassist Edgar Myer are two important current figures in American music. They got together in the NPR studios to play some of the banjo and bass music they take out on tour.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Mark O'Connor about his memoir, Crossing Bridges, on his journey from multi-instrumentalist child prodigy to solo... Mark O'Connor's story starts ordinarily enough. He ...