Mark O'Connor
@markoconnormusic.bsky.social
Musical Artist, Composer, Violin/Fiddle, Guitarist. Progressive-minded thinker. Author of Crossing Bridges memoir, and the O'Connor Method for violin and strings. Duo partner to wife Maggie. Mark and Maggie O'Connor on tour. Dad. Grammy-winner.
We are heading to the great Northwest today! 'An Appalachian Christmas' is seeing #soldout concerts up there, and some very close to running out of seats in the next couple of days. Tix links: www.markoconnor.com/tour
December 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We are heading to the great Northwest today! 'An Appalachian Christmas' is seeing #soldout concerts up there, and some very close to running out of seats in the next couple of days. Tix links: www.markoconnor.com/tour
El Paso, TX was awesome last evening for our 'An Appalachian Christmas' concert. Gorgeous hall at Univ of Texas at El Paso. A huge thank you to Promusica directors Zuill Bailey and Felipa Solis for inviting us for their holiday program this year!
December 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
El Paso, TX was awesome last evening for our 'An Appalachian Christmas' concert. Gorgeous hall at Univ of Texas at El Paso. A huge thank you to Promusica directors Zuill Bailey and Felipa Solis for inviting us for their holiday program this year!
Our new ‘A Christmas Duo’ album was released one month ago exactly and has now topped 100,000 streams on Spotify! This action has caused my monthly listenership to balloon to 173,000 with two tracks from the new album in my top 10 songs at #3 and #6. And Maggie’s 37,000 monthly listeners!
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Our new ‘A Christmas Duo’ album was released one month ago exactly and has now topped 100,000 streams on Spotify! This action has caused my monthly listenership to balloon to 173,000 with two tracks from the new album in my top 10 songs at #3 and #6. And Maggie’s 37,000 monthly listeners!
Maggie and I joined world renown cellist Zuill Bailey for a reception tonight with donors of ProMusica who are hosting our Christmas concert in El Paso tomorrow night at UTEP Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall! 7:30pm (Mon. 15th). 'An Appalachian Christmas' continues. See you tomorrow in El Paso!
December 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Maggie and I joined world renown cellist Zuill Bailey for a reception tonight with donors of ProMusica who are hosting our Christmas concert in El Paso tomorrow night at UTEP Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall! 7:30pm (Mon. 15th). 'An Appalachian Christmas' continues. See you tomorrow in El Paso!
Reposted by Mark O'Connor
"Song of the Liberty Bell" by Mark O'Connor / @nashvillesymphony.org, conducted by Kenneth Schermerhorn, soloists @markoconnormusic.bsky.social, Yo-Yo Ma, cello / Sony records sp. 63216
December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Song of the Liberty Bell" by Mark O'Connor / @nashvillesymphony.org, conducted by Kenneth Schermerhorn, soloists @markoconnormusic.bsky.social, Yo-Yo Ma, cello / Sony records sp. 63216
A musical prayer for peace in our world.
"Silent Night" from 'A Christmas Duo'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhXa...
"Silent Night" from 'A Christmas Duo'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhXa...
Silent Night - Mark and Maggie O'Connor from 'A Christmas Duo' (official video)
YouTube video by Mark O'Connor
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December 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A musical prayer for peace in our world.
"Silent Night" from 'A Christmas Duo'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhXa...
"Silent Night" from 'A Christmas Duo'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhXa...
On-stage seflie at the Alberta Bair Theater in Billings, MT.
December 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
On-stage seflie at the Alberta Bair Theater in Billings, MT.
RIP Jubilant Sykes, Raul Malo and Gordon Goodwin
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
RIP Jubilant Sykes, Raul Malo and Gordon Goodwin
Baxendale Guitars
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Baxendale Guitars
Both Maggie and I achieve our individual highs for Spotify monthly listeners yet again today! I've never had 169,000 monthly listeners before. And Maggie went past 31,000 monthly listeners.
Everything you want to know about the new album:
www.markoconnor.com/a-christmas-...
Everything you want to know about the new album:
www.markoconnor.com/a-christmas-...
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Both Maggie and I achieve our individual highs for Spotify monthly listeners yet again today! I've never had 169,000 monthly listeners before. And Maggie went past 31,000 monthly listeners.
Everything you want to know about the new album:
www.markoconnor.com/a-christmas-...
Everything you want to know about the new album:
www.markoconnor.com/a-christmas-...
Sold out at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts. Tickets still available 30 minutes away in Seattle at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley Dec 22 and 23.
Ticket links: www.markoconnor.com/tour
Ticket links: www.markoconnor.com/tour
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Sold out at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts. Tickets still available 30 minutes away in Seattle at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley Dec 22 and 23.
Ticket links: www.markoconnor.com/tour
Ticket links: www.markoconnor.com/tour
Another incredible 'An Appalachian Christmas' staging last night at the splendid and historic 1927 Carolina Theatre of Greensboro. As delicious as this looked, it sounded even better in there with our single microphone filling up this hall fully.
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Another incredible 'An Appalachian Christmas' staging last night at the splendid and historic 1927 Carolina Theatre of Greensboro. As delicious as this looked, it sounded even better in there with our single microphone filling up this hall fully.
Last night in Charlotte at the Carolina Theatre!
December 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Last night in Charlotte at the Carolina Theatre!
What a beautiful evening for us at the exemplary, gilt-edge Barns at Wolf Trap! We played 'An Appalachian Christmas' concert to a sold-out hall—so much so they may have us back next year! Wouldn't that be wonderful!!
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
What a beautiful evening for us at the exemplary, gilt-edge Barns at Wolf Trap! We played 'An Appalachian Christmas' concert to a sold-out hall—so much so they may have us back next year! Wouldn't that be wonderful!!
Mark O’Connor performs his show tonight to a sold out concert hall in Washington D.C. — The Barns at Wolf Trap.
Mark O'Connor - Guitar ending (official clip from A Christmas Duo)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPa-...
Mark O'Connor - Guitar ending (official clip from A Christmas Duo)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPa-...
Mark O'Connor - Guitar ending (official clip from A Christmas Duo)
YouTube video by Mark O'Connor
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December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Mark O’Connor performs his show tonight to a sold out concert hall in Washington D.C. — The Barns at Wolf Trap.
Mark O'Connor - Guitar ending (official clip from A Christmas Duo)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPa-...
Mark O'Connor - Guitar ending (official clip from A Christmas Duo)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPa-...
Thank you for listening in 2025! My numbers are up in every category, and that is in part thanks to the new Christmas album, A Christmas Duo'!
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Thank you for listening in 2025! My numbers are up in every category, and that is in part thanks to the new Christmas album, A Christmas Duo'!
We did a podcast about our new album 'A Christmas Duo', our upcoming show in our hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina this Friday at the historic Carolina Theatre and the whole 'An Appalachian Christmas' tour this year. Jack Anthony hosting.
open.spotify.com/episode/32WG...
open.spotify.com/episode/32WG...
Mark and Maggie O'Connor - A Christmas Duo
open.spotify.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We did a podcast about our new album 'A Christmas Duo', our upcoming show in our hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina this Friday at the historic Carolina Theatre and the whole 'An Appalachian Christmas' tour this year. Jack Anthony hosting.
open.spotify.com/episode/32WG...
open.spotify.com/episode/32WG...
Sold out at the Barns at Wolf Trap tomorrow night in Washington D.C.!
December 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Sold out at the Barns at Wolf Trap tomorrow night in Washington D.C.!
We had a good one in Chicago tonight for 'An Appalachian Christmas' - what an audience! We were signing so many CDs of our new 'A Christmas Duo'.
And for sure, one of the stars of the show is this gem right here.. the Mandocello.
And for sure, one of the stars of the show is this gem right here.. the Mandocello.
December 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
We had a good one in Chicago tonight for 'An Appalachian Christmas' - what an audience! We were signing so many CDs of our new 'A Christmas Duo'.
And for sure, one of the stars of the show is this gem right here.. the Mandocello.
And for sure, one of the stars of the show is this gem right here.. the Mandocello.
We were on the local news there for Univ of AL); shorturl.at/mmRIn
And now tonight we'll take the stage for "An Appalachian Christmas" in Chicago at the beautiful North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. Last minutes tickets website or at the door.
www.markoconnor.com/tour
And now tonight we'll take the stage for "An Appalachian Christmas" in Chicago at the beautiful North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. Last minutes tickets website or at the door.
www.markoconnor.com/tour
Holiday concert to be held at Aly Stephens Center December 7
Holiday concert to be held at Aly Stephens Center December 7
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December 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We were on the local news there for Univ of AL); shorturl.at/mmRIn
And now tonight we'll take the stage for "An Appalachian Christmas" in Chicago at the beautiful North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. Last minutes tickets website or at the door.
www.markoconnor.com/tour
And now tonight we'll take the stage for "An Appalachian Christmas" in Chicago at the beautiful North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. Last minutes tickets website or at the door.
www.markoconnor.com/tour
A Happy Thanksgiving Newsletter we sent out earlier. We are down in Florida right now performing a private event before heading to Birmingham for tomorrow's Christmas concert (Sunday) at University of Alabama - Alys Stephens Center for the Performing Arts.
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November 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
A Happy Thanksgiving Newsletter we sent out earlier. We are down in Florida right now performing a private event before heading to Birmingham for tomorrow's Christmas concert (Sunday) at University of Alabama - Alys Stephens Center for the Performing Arts.
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Dakota - December 10th at 7:00pm - Mark O'Connor's 'An Appalachian Christmas' feat. Maggie O'Connor
My 'An Appalachian Christmas' is in full swing on tour. I'm playing four instruments in the show, and my guitar-playing is as good as I have played it.
Tix: www.markoconnor.com/tour
My 'An Appalachian Christmas' is in full swing on tour. I'm playing four instruments in the show, and my guitar-playing is as good as I have played it.
Tix: www.markoconnor.com/tour
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Dakota - December 10th at 7:00pm - Mark O'Connor's 'An Appalachian Christmas' feat. Maggie O'Connor
My 'An Appalachian Christmas' is in full swing on tour. I'm playing four instruments in the show, and my guitar-playing is as good as I have played it.
Tix: www.markoconnor.com/tour
My 'An Appalachian Christmas' is in full swing on tour. I'm playing four instruments in the show, and my guitar-playing is as good as I have played it.
Tix: www.markoconnor.com/tour