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   Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player, composer, guitarist, and mandolinist whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he has won six Country Music Association Musician Of The Year awards and was a member of three influential musical ensembles: the David Grisman ...

2. www.markoconnor.com › bioMark O'Connor Official Website - Bio

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   Mark O'Connor (b. August 5, 1961, Seattle, Washington) "One of the most spectacular journeys in recent American music." - The New York Times. "One of the most talented and imaginative artists working in music -- any music -- today." - The Los Angeles Times.

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   • Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player, composer, guitarist, and mandolinist whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical.

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   How did Mark O'Connor grow up?

   • 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 finally got a fiddle for his eleventh birthday.

   Prodigious fiddler Mark O'Connor celebrates 50 years of music with

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   • As a teen, O'Connor outperformed amateur and professional musicians many times his age – on the fiddle as well as on guitar and mandolin. He was such a serial winner that the National Guitar Flatpicking Championships instituted the "Mark O'Connor Rule," a five-year ban for winners, after he won that contest the second time in a row.

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   Feb 14, 2023 · Heard on Morning Edition. By. Olivia Hampton. 7-Minute Listen. Playlist. Enlarge this image. Mark O'Connor plays the five instruments he was studying at age 12 - fiddle, guitar, mandolin,...

5. www.markoconnor.comMark O'Connor Official Website

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   Mark O’Connor, a three-time Grammy winner and seven-time CMA Musician of the Year, is a legendary multi-instrumentalist famous for his work on fiddle, guitar and mandolin. He is also a ground-breaking American classical composer known for pieces like “Appalachia Waltz” and “The Fiddle Concerto.”

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   Feb 14, 2023 · Mark O'Connor plays the five instruments he was studying at age 12 - fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo and dobro. 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.

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   Overview. Born. August 5, 1961 · Seattle, Washington, USA. Mini Bio. Mark O'Connor first knew that he wanted to be a violinist at the age of 11 in Seattle, having already played the guitar since age 6. Soon after, he began taking lessons fromthe legendary Texas fiddler Benny Thomasson. By age 14 he had won 3 national fiddling championships.

9. markoconnor.com › crossing-bridges-memoirMark O'Connor Official Website - Crossing Bridges (Memoir)

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   Crossing Bridges, a memoir by Mark O'Connor out 2/10/23. Crossing Bridges, Mark O’Connor’s aching memoir, traces his journey from his childhood years, when at age 10 he was winning classical guitar competitions against University graduates, and at age 12 was thrust as a soloist onto the Grand Ole Opry stage introduced by the “King of ...