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.

Banjo player Bela Fleck, bassist Edgar Myer, and violinist Mark O'Connor weave traditional music influences into their compositions.

A national fiddle champion at age 14, Seattle’s Mark O’Connor has maintained a frenetic pace as a composer and performer: a Nashville sessionman who played on more than 450 recordings ...

Ever since bursting on the scene in 1974 with a recording contract as a 13-year old fiddle and flat-picking guitar champion, Mark O’Connor has lent his instrumental virtuosity to the worlds of ...

A former child prodigy and U.S. fiddle champion, Mark O’Connor is arguably the world’s most gifted bluegrass virtuoso. How else do you describe an artist who, at age 20, was ...

Mark O'Connor has won three Grammys and seven CMA awards, as well as several national fiddle, guitar, and mandolin champion titles.

Mark O'Connor, a multi-instrumentalist renowned for his virtuosity on violin and acoustic guitar, chronicles his 50-year career in the memoir "Crossing Bridges: My Journey from Child Prodigy to ...

Mark O’Connor will celebrate the release of his “Crossing Bridges Memoir Trilogy” with a show at The Egg on March 11.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Mark O'Connor about his memoir, Crossing Bridges, on his journey from multi-instrumentalist child prodigy to solo artist composing and performing on world stages.