Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor is an American bluegrass, jazz and country violinist, fiddler, composer and music teacher. O'Connor has received numerous awards for both his playing and his composition. As a teenager he won national string instrument championships for his virtuoso playing of the guitar and mandolin as well as the fiddle. His mentors include Texas fiddler Benny Thomasson who taught O'Connor to fiddle as a teenager, French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli with whom O'Connor toured as a teenager, and guitarist Chet...
ProfessionViolinist
Date of Birth5 August 1961
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I don't recall having, in recent memory, anything remotely resembling this kind of an event where the need is to bring back a group of people dispersed by a calamity. It signifies not only a healing for their symphony and what they've worked for. It also represents the larger community of New Orleans musicians. That's exactly what people there are wanting to do. They want to put their community back together. And that community needs to heal with what the arts can give the heart and soul.
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This music is really addictive. I can get into the swing and never want to leave. I think audiences will feel something similar.
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I think that's been part of my success, that my music looks forward while looking backward.
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He was one of the greatest, most creative fiddlers in country and bluegrass music history.
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Thank God he was in such good shape before, or he never would have made it.
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In the last couple of years, England has had a real problem with American culture. Looking back, people were looking to vent. They were going to vent to anybody they felt was carrying the American flag. And I carry the flag. But I carry it musically.
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Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.