Experience an evening of masterful strings with Mark & Maggie O’Connor! Three-time GRAMMY® winner Mark O’Connor has redefined American string music, blending classical, jazz, and bluegrass into his own signature style. Joined by his wife, violinist Maggie O’Connor, the duo delivers dazzling fiddle tunes and soul-stirring duets that celebrate the depth and beauty of American string traditions.
"Restless" from Mark O'Connor and The New Nashville Cats featuring Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs and Steve Wariner is newly remastered and released to Spotify, Apple, Amazon etc...
“Restless” from Mark O’Connor’s ‘New Nashville Cats’ is a fiery country collab between O’Connor, and Music City hitmakers Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs and Steve Wariner. The fiddler, guitar pickers and singers breathe new life into the Carl Perkins rockabilly classic.
“O’Connor has made his solo album a tribute to veteran Nashville session players. …these are the folks who revitalized the Nashville sound…and turned a country music town into an international recording center.” – Entertainment Weekly
“Best Album: For sheer velocity and beauty, listen to Mark O’Connor’s ‘The New Nashville Cats’, which joins his incredible fiddle with 53 of Music City’s finest players.” -David Zimmerman, USA Today
“Each track…maintains the integrity of the song while showing how far country musicianship has come, and how far it’s likely to go.” -New York Newsday
“The words “dazzling” and “awesome” immediately come to mind…but they may not be enough.” -CMJ New Music Report
“This is an absolutely stunning collection of songs.” -Billboard
“Sometimes it’s better to let the fiddler call the tune… Assembling 53 veterans and hot new players from the Nashville scene, O’Connor has cut the anchor on this one, steering into some of the liveliest currents in the American music stream.” – St. Louis Dispatch
“He’s crafted a record that will probably stand as the definitive gang album for Nashville in the 90’s as ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken’ was for the ‘70’s.” -The Houston Post
“Mark O’Connor has been astounding listeners with his genius since he was 13. I believe he and Itzhak Perlman are two of the greatest musicians on the planet today. He’s one of the few people I pay to go see.” -Chet Atkins
“To be included in my opinion with Mark O'Connor who is without question the best musician on this planet.” - Vince Gill
