SignalsAZ.com Prescott News Podcast - Appalachian Christmas at Performing Arts Center, Prescott
Episode Date: November 19, 2024Send us a text and chime in!Put the down-home back in your holiday with the country flavor of Mark O'Connor’s An Appalachian Christmas, Wednesday, December 11, at 7 p.m., at the Jim & Linda... Lee Performing Arts Center on Yavapai College’s Prescott Campus. A winner of three Grammys and seven Country Music Association awards, as well as multiple national fiddle, guitar, and mandolin titles, Mark O'Connor is a leading performer and educator in contemporary and classical string music. He began his creative journey at the feet of American fiddling legend Benny Thomasson and iconic French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli. As an Appalachian-born violin prodigy, Mark O'Connor... For the written story, read here >> https://www.signalsaz.com/articles/appalachian-christmas-at-performing-arts-center-prescott/Check out the CAST11.com Website at: https://CAST11.com Follow the CAST11 Podcast Network on Facebook at: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network
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Put the downhome back in your holiday with the country flavor of Mark O'Connor's in Appalachian Christmas,
Wednesday, December 11th, at 7 p.m., at the gym and Linda Lee Performing Arts Center on Yavapai
College's Prescott Campus.
A winner of three Grammys and seven country music association awards, as well as multiple
national fiddle, guitar, and mandolin titles, Mark O'Connor is a leading
performer and educator and contemporary and classical string music. He began his creative journey at the
feet of American fiddling legend Benny Thomason and iconic French jazz violinist Stafing Rapelli. As an
Appalachian-born violin prodigy, Mark O'Connor cherished the Christmas holidays because it gave him a
chance to stay home and jam with local musicians, performing traditional Christmas music and folk tunes that
celebrated the simple life they all shared. In his teens, O'Connor performed for President Reagan at the
White House. Over time, he melded his diverse influences into a new American classical music,
continuing his vision of an American School of String Playing. Mark O'Connor's unfinished trajectory,
from largely self-taught fiddle player to concert hall virtuoso and classical composer,
is already one of the most spectacular journeys in recent American music. New York Times
An Appalachian Christmas features O'Connor, alongside his wife and award-winning fiddler Maggie O'Connor,
delivering fresh arrangements of Christmas classics, both vocal and instrumental. It also features
moving songs that vividly recall O'Connor's life and childhood in Appalachia. Mark is so facile with his
instrument and so completely on top of it. He's really one in a million. We won't see a lot more like
him in this generation. James Taylor. In addition to a holiday concert with the performer whom
Vince Gill called the best musician on the planet, the Jim and Linda Lee Performing Arts Center will host an after-show dessert
Social with Mark and Maggie O'Connor. Tickets for an Appalachian Christmas start at $39.
The Post-Performance Dessert Social is $15 per person. The gym and Linda Lee Performing Arts Center
is located on the Yavapai College Prescott Campus, 1,100 East Sheldon Street, in Prescott.
For reservations or more information, please contact the J&LAC ticket office, open Tuesday to
Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for more information.
please call 928-776-20000. For more news and events, go to signalsaz.com.