BOULDER, Colo. — Mark O'Connor is taking his violin on a voyage beyond the musical map, to places he has yet to discover. The fiddler, violin virtuoso and composer knows one thing about the course ...

Violinist Mark O’Connor is renowned as a crossover artist whose approach and compositions straddle the fuzzy lines between different musical styles, especially jazz, Americana and classical music.

American folk music waves like the flag throughout violinist Mark O’Connor’s music. From classical to country to bluegrass, his oft-sweeping panoramas evoke heartland to high rises. Look for O’Connor ...

“In the O’Connor household, Christmas time was a wondrous mixture of Christmas carols, fiddling, bluegrass and other traditional American music. And that is the spirit of ‘An Appalachian Christmas,’ ” ...