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Mark O'Connor and friends are gearing up
for their first holiday tour!
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"An Appalachian Christmas" with Mark O'Connor and Friends, On Tour December 2012!
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www.markoconnorchristmas.com
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"All Christmas music should be played so elegantly on violin" - Boston Globe
"Elegant" - The New York Times
"Heavenly" - Associated Press
"An absolute delight!" - American Songwriter
Mark O'Connor is thrilled to announce his first holiday tour. Dates and ticket information is below!
December 13 - Bethesda, MD (The Music Center at Strathmore) Purchase Tickets
December 14 - Scranton, PA (with N.E. Pennsylvania Symphony) Purchase Tickets
December 15 - Wilkes-Barre, PA (with N.E. Pennsylvania Symphony) Purchase Tickets
December 18 - London/Corbin, KY (First Baptist Church of London) Call (606) 528-1354 for Tickets
December 21 - Hamilton, MT (Hamilton Performing Arts Center Auditorium) Purchase Tickets
Musicians: Carrie Rodriguez (website), Cia Cherryholmes (website), Forrest O'Connor (website), Hans Holzen, and Kyle Kegerreis
Production: David Gibson, Gibson Entertinment Services
Management: Mark Alpert, CAMI
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To Check Out The Website for 'An Appalachian Christmas,' Click Here!
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Learn More About The Artists On Tour With Mark!
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Mark O'Connor's "An Appalachian Christmas" CD
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Carrie Rodriguez has established an impressive roster of touring, recording, and co-writing affiliations—with Lucinda Williams, Rickie Lee Jones, John Prine, Mary Gauthier, Alejandro Escovedo, guitarist Bill Frisell, and others. Rodriguez made her solo debut in 2006 with Seven Angels on a Bicycle/ At each stage of Carrie Rodriguez’s career—as a fiddler, singer, and songwriter—the Austin, Texas, native has learned the importance of letting go. That was certainly true when it came to recording her fifth solo album, Give Me All You Got, her first of largely original tunes in several years. While Carrie’s father, David Rodriguez, was an accomplished songwriter, and took her on tour with him in Europe when she was a teen, song craft, like improvising on fiddle and singing, didn’t come automatically to Carrie. After sitting in on a sound check with her dad’s old Houston pal Lyle Lovett, she detoured from a degree as a classical violinist at Oberlin Conservatory and set herself on course to become a fiddler at the Berklee College of Music.
Cia Cherryholmes Adkisson is best known for her work with 5 time GRAMMY™ nominated, and 2005 IBMA Entertainer of the Year band, Cherryholmes. As principal songwriter, lead vocalist, and banjoist for the band, Cia along with the group, had four projects with Skaggs Family Records™, and enjoyed a No. 1 Debut album spot on Billboard™ in October 2010 for their Cherryholmes IV project. After the group disbanded in 2011, Cia met with singer-songwriter Stetson Adkisson and formed the duo, Stetson and Cia. Their first project was released in January 2012, and featured all original music written by the pair. In 2008, USA Today™ described Cia as, "bluegrass' most stunning new female singer", and Time Out New York™ called her, a "future star". Cia is a sought after guest vocalist for projects in acoustic, bluegrass, country, and gospel. Her songwriting is well respected, and her multi-instrumental musicianship has landed her instrumental awards.
Forrest O’Connor's family was involved in the music industry, so he was fortunate to grow up around world-class performers like Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, Victor Wooten, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, and Edgar Meyer. O’Connor played fiddle, guitar, piano, and even trombone during elementary and middle school. In 2000, after hearing Nickel Creek’s self-titled debut album and was inspired to learn the mandolin. In 2008, he formed a progressive bluegrass band called The Hay Brigade with accordionist Dan Gurney, fiddler Duncan Wickel, and bassist Nicky Schwartz. According to Bluegrass Today, The Hay Brigade possessed “a stunning level of virtuosity.” In 2010, O’Connor and Hay Brigade bandmate Gurney co-founded Concert Window, Inc., which has webcasted nearly 1,500 live concerts from top-notch venues around the U.S. to viewers in over 130 countries. Now, at age 24, O’Connor maintains an active performance schedule, both as a solo artist and as a member of The David Gallagher Band, and he continues to compose melody-driven, harmonically fresh songs that tell whimsical tales.
Hans Holzen is a multi-instrumentalist musician & songwriter and has lived in Nashville, TN and New York City, NY. He is known primarily as a guitarist for Americana songwriters Carrie Rodriguez, Chip Taylor, Peter Bradley Adams, violinist/composer Mark O’Connor’s String Celebration Ensemble, and leader of the Dive Bar Dukes, a Brooklyn, NY based country band. Hans grew up in a musical family in Nashville where he met, studied, and performed with some of the finest musicians of Music City. He is influenced by the traditional forms of country, blues, jazz, and early Rock n Roll. In his career, Hans has performed onPBS’ Austin City Limits,NPR’s Prairie Home Companion, toured 46 states, Canada, the UK & Ireland, and Northern Europe.
Originally from Indianapolis, bassist Kyle Kegerreis began his career in jazz and rock. He moved to Nashville in 2001, and began touring and recording with a multitude of artists in the Americana, Blues, Rock, and Jazz arena. For six years, he was the “house bassist” for violinist/composer Mark O’Connor’s fiddle camp in Tennessee and was on faculty at O’Connor’s San Diego String Conference for two summers. He is a regular member of Mark’s American String Celebration Ensemble as well as making appearances with his Hot Swing Trio. Active on the tour circuit, Kyle has been traveling in the US and throughout Europe as a member of the Carrie Rodriguez Band since 2006 and also performs on tour with legendary songwriter Chip Taylor and the Rockabilly band Heavy Trash, the brainchild of Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion) and Matt Verta-Ray (Speedball Baby). Kyle has performed on NPR’s Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage and World Café, PBS’s Austin City Limits and The Grand Ole Opry. Currently residing in Brooklyn, NY, he is also a member of the Triborough Trio with Mike Block (Silk Road Ensemble) and Hans Holzen (Carrie Rodriguez Band) and performs locally with singer-songwriter Peter Bradley Adams.
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Click Here For More Information On The Tour!
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Learn more about the O'Connor Method
Teacher Training Seminars on the O'Connor Method being taught this winter.
Click here for additional information.For information on Camp, O'Connor Method, engagements, ensembles, repertoire, sheet music, CD's and Digital Music Store, please visit our website: www.markoconnor.comCheck out new Mark O'Connor videos posted on his Youtube Channel.Follow Mark O'Connor (@markoconnor35) on Twitter!For frequent updates from Mark on the road please visit his Facebook fan page.
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