Mark O'Connor's An Appalachian Christmas

Grammy-winning composer and fiddler Mark O’Connor will bring An Appalachian Christmas Featuring Maggie O’Connor to Nashville, Ind., this holiday season, with a stop at the Brown County Music Center on Sunday, December 13, 2026. Mark O’Connor’s An Appalachian Christmas album (2011) reached the #1 ranking on Billboard’s Bluegrass Album charts. Hailed by critics from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Los Angeles Times as a top 10 album of the holiday season, it has become a perennial classic Christmas recording. For this concert tour, Mark O’Connor has created several arrangements of Christmas classics and a wondrous mixture of both instrumental and vocal music in bluegrass and other American music genres. Concertgoers are treated to fresh takes on traditional songs with a few original compositions included. His renditions are playful and joyous, but can be strikingly earnest too. Mark O’Connor’s Christmas concerts feature himself performing on four instruments; fiddle, acoustic guitar, mandolin and mandocello, with his wife and fellow Grammy- winner Maggie O’Connor on fiddle and vocals. Mark and Maggie have performed An Appalachian Christmas together as husband and wife for nearly 10 years, and together they’ve captured it all on their most recent album A Christmas Duo. Much of the year they tour behind their latest recording of original Americana songs and classics, Life After Life. Together on stage, Mark and Maggie have a dynamic energy that bring their individual expertise to holiday themes and classics in the most delightful and musically satisfying way!