{"id":162,"date":"2007-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T22:38:42","slug":"songs_and_stories_11_the_mark_o_connor_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_11_the_mark_o_connor_i\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #11: The Mark O&#8217;Connor Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7225\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-162-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories11.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories11.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories11.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories11.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=162-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories11.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories11.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories11.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">podcast #11<\/a>  (time = 25:027, size = 29.3 mb)<\/p>\n<p>This week, I had the rare opportunity of talking with violinst-composer Mark O&#8217;Connor. A classically-trained musician, he&#8217;s been at the front of contemporary acoustic music for a long time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He worked as a Nashville session player for several years, backing up players like The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Steve Earle, and Lyle Lovett.<\/li>\n<li>He was part of the new acoustic movement in the 80s, working with folks like Bela Fleck and Jerry Douglas, which resulted in the classic &#8220;Strength In Numbers&#8221; CD.<\/li>\n<li>He, along with Edgar Meyer and Yo-Yo Ma, combined American mountain music with chamber and jazz influences, documenting this in the Appalachian Journey recordings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This month, audiences get a chance to see all sides of O&#8217;Connor: He&#8217;s in Santa Cruz, California this week for the debut of his first original symphony. On August 13, he&#8217;s presenting his Appalachian trio at the Aspen Music Festival. He&#8217;s finished his annual fiddle camps and at the end of the month will be presenting a subset of that at the the Fall Strawberry Music Festival. We talked about that between rehearsals this week at the Santa Cruz Civic.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some links to go with the show. I mention these in the podcast:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markoconnor.com\/fiddle.camp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mark O&#8217;Connor Fiddle Camp<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabrillomusic.org\/2007\/mark_oconnor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspenmusicfestival.com\/index.cfm?method=c.eventDetail&amp;eventID=2758&amp;layout=1\" target=\"_blank\">Aspen Music Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strawberrymusic.com\/home.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Strawberry Music Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Telluride-Sessions-Strength-Numbers\/dp\/B000006EJJ\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8220;Strength In Numbers&#8221; CD<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Appalachian-Journey-Edgar-Meyer\/dp\/B00004S38H\/ref=pd_sim_m_4_img\/002-3206902-9944063\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8220;Appalachian Journey&#8221; CD<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewPodcast%253Fid%253D216646993\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/subscribe-with-itunes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fsongs_and_stories_11_the_mark_o_connor_i%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to hear podcast #11 (time = 25:027, size = 29.3 mb) This week, I had the rare opportunity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}