In the American melting pot of music, Mark O'Connor serves as the caldron. He studied Benny Thomasson, who's credited with framing the modern age of American fiddling in the 1940s. O'Connor also ...

BOULDER, Colo. -- Mark O'Connor is taking his violin on a voyage beyond the musical map, to places he has yet to discover. The fiddler, violin virtuoso and composer knows one thing about the course he ...

Violinist Mark O’Connor is renowned as a crossover artist whose approach and compositions straddle the fuzzy lines between different musical styles, especially jazz, Americana and classical music.

“In the O’Connor household, Christmas time was a wondrous mixture of Christmas carols, fiddling, bluegrass and other traditional American music. And that is the spirit of ‘An Appalachian Christmas,’ ” ...