Mark & Maggie O'Connor

Two Grammy Award-winning artists. Two fiddles. One unforgettable afternoon of American music. Mark O’Connor is one of the defining American string players of his generation: a former seven-time CMA Musician of the Year, national fiddle, guitar, and mandolin champion, composer of concertos and symphonies, and the artist behind the beloved Appalachia Waltz, recorded with Yo-Yo Ma. Maggie O’Connor brings her own distinctive voice to the duo, combining Georgia roots, expressive vocals, and classical violin training from the Peabody Conservatory. Together, Mark and Maggie move easily between fiddle tradition, Americana, classical lyricism, original songs, and reimagined favorites. Their recent work grew out of seventy weekly online concerts from home, where they explored new songs, new arrangements, and a more intimate duo language during a period of isolation from touring. Mark O'Connor, violin, guitar, vocals Maggie O'Connor, violin, vocals ABOUT THE ARTISTS Mark and Maggie O’Connor bring their deeply personal musical partnership to Chamber Music Raleigh’s Sights & Sounds on Sundays series at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Their collaboration began in 2014 with Mark’s American Classical violin duos, grew into a family band that earned them both Grammy Awards, and has continued to evolve into a wide-ranging duo project filled with virtuosity, warmth, and unmistakable chemistry. Sunday, January 24, 2027 2:00 p.m. SECU Auditorium - NC Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Rd. Raleigh, NC 27607 presented by Jack Lewis & Peg O'CONNELL $31 ADULTS $28 NCMA MEMBERS $23 STUDENTS For this NCMA performance, expect a concert that is polished but personal, virtuosic but heartfelt—music shaped by two artists who know how to turn a room into a front porch, a recital hall, and a celebration all at once.