World-renowned acoustic musicians Mark O’Connor (violin), Chris Thile (mandolin), Frank Vignola (guitar), Bryan Sutton (guitar), Jon Burr (bass) and Byron House (bass) can captivate audiences with just their instruments. But for them, jamming is a meeting of musical minds and genres in communication, a perfect example of holistic American music….

Composer and virtuoso violinist Mark O’Connor has announced the live return of his critically acclaimed band Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing — O’Connor’s tribute to friend and mentor Stephane Grappelli — with a January tour.

On January 16, Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing will perform as part of the Kennedy Center’s…

Inspired by the 1930s pairing of Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, Hot Jazz finds fiddler extraordinaire Mark O’Connor and his band Hot Swing joining with popular French guitarist Dorado Schmitt of the Django Reinhardt Festival for a January 16th concert at The Kennedy Center in the Terrace Theater….

To say that bluegrass has really come to town might be an understatement on the campus of famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass.

Fiddler-turned-master-violinist Mark O’Connor will help the music school introduce its new American Roots Music Program next month…

On November 16th, multiple-Grammy-winning composer and violinist Mark O’Connor will realize a long-held dream: Books I and II of the O’Connor Violin Method will be published. While touring the United States and composing orchestral and chamber music, O’Connor has educated thousands of young musicians at his summer string camps and at such notable institutions as UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, Curtis Institute of Music and Harvard, always focusing on what he calls “America’s classical music.”