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 made it to Whidbey Island, and here is the view from our Airbnb of the Puget Sound from this island! There was a storm last night and most of the island is without power including us, and including the Whidbey Island PAC, but the venue has a generator there and the concert can go on as planned!
December 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
We made it to Whidbey Island, and here is the view from our Airbnb of the Puget Sound from this island! There was a storm last night and most of the island is without power including us, and including the Whidbey Island PAC, but the venue has a generator there and the concert can go on as planned!
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!
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!!
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'!
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.
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
We are performing at the gorgeous North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Chicago/Skokie this Tuesday! (Dec 2nd).
Mark O'Connor's 'An Appalachian Christmas'
feat. Maggie O'Connor
Tickets at: www.markoconnor.com/tour
Mark O'Connor's 'An Appalachian Christmas'
feat. Maggie O'Connor
Tickets at: www.markoconnor.com/tour
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
We are performing at the gorgeous North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Chicago/Skokie this Tuesday! (Dec 2nd).
Mark O'Connor's 'An Appalachian Christmas'
feat. Maggie O'Connor
Tickets at: www.markoconnor.com/tour
Mark O'Connor's 'An Appalachian Christmas'
feat. Maggie O'Connor
Tickets at: www.markoconnor.com/tour
Both Maggie and I set our individual records today at the same time for the most monthly listeners on Spotify ever! Maggie passed 20,000 monthly streams and I passed 154,000 monthly streams for the first time in my career. Interview tomorrow:
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November 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Both Maggie and I set our individual records today at the same time for the most monthly listeners on Spotify ever! Maggie passed 20,000 monthly streams and I passed 154,000 monthly streams for the first time in my career. Interview tomorrow:
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We did our new Christmas single on television today—Queen City News on a show called 'Positively Charlotte' with hosts Liza Mahacheck and Alicia Quarles.
www.qcnews.com/positively-c...
www.qcnews.com/positively-c...
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
We did our new Christmas single on television today—Queen City News on a show called 'Positively Charlotte' with hosts Liza Mahacheck and Alicia Quarles.
www.qcnews.com/positively-c...
www.qcnews.com/positively-c...
“God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” -P.D. Arr: O’Connor
Mark O’Connor - fiddle
Music featured on “A Christmas Duo”
Website for the new album:
www.markoconnor.com/a-christmas-...
On tour now across the country.
Mark O’Connor - fiddle
Music featured on “A Christmas Duo”
Website for the new album:
www.markoconnor.com/a-christmas-...
On tour now across the country.
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” -P.D. Arr: O’Connor
Mark O’Connor - fiddle
Music featured on “A Christmas Duo”
Website for the new album:
www.markoconnor.com/a-christmas-...
On tour now across the country.
Mark O’Connor - fiddle
Music featured on “A Christmas Duo”
Website for the new album:
www.markoconnor.com/a-christmas-...
On tour now across the country.