NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Mark O'Connor about his memoir, Crossing Bridges, on his journey from multi-instrumentalist child prodigy to solo... Prodigious fiddler Mark O'Connor celebrates 50 years ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Mark O’Connor will celebrate the release of his “Crossing Bridges Memoir Trilogy” with a show at The Egg on March 11. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are available now online.

Banjo player Bela Fleck and bassist Edgar Myer are two important current figures in American music. They got together in the NPR studios to play some of the banjo and bass music they take out on tour.

Mark O'Connor's story starts ordinarily enough. He grew up in a suburb of Seattle, where his father scraped by as a construction worker and his mother was a homemaker. But everything changed when he ...

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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Mark O'Connor about his memoir, Crossing Bridges, on his journey from multi-instrumentalist child prodigy to solo... Mark O'Connor's story starts ordinarily enough. He ...