Mark O’Connor’s Appalachian Christmas
Mark O'Connor's "An Appalachian Christmas," an evening of holiday favorites performed by Grammy Award-winning bluegrass and American roots musicians, comes to Musco Center for the Arts on Tuesday, December 17 at 7:30 p.m. The O'Connor family and their band invigorate familiar holiday classics for a delightful evening.
In addition to these fresh, playful, and joyous versions of beloved Christmas songs, composer and fiddler Mark O’Connor includes a few original compositions in the spirit of the season.
The music is so appealing that the group's Mark O’Connor’s An Appalachian Christmas album was Number 1 on Billboard’s Bluegrass Album charts in 2011. It has remained in the Top Five each year since, becoming a perennial Christmas classic hailed as a Top 10-holiday album by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Los Angeles Times. According to The Boston Globe, “All Christmas music should be played so elegantly on violin."
Tickets for Mark O'Connor's "An Appalachian Christmas" begin at $25 and are available online at muscocenter.org or by calling Musco Center at 844.626.8726 (844.OC.MUSCO).
