PLA Media Adds Award Winning Musician Mark O’Connor To Their Roster
PLA Media is proud to announce the addition of multi Grammy and CMA award-winning musician, Mark O’Connor, to its award-winning roster. Mark O’Connor is joined alongside an impressive client list including the world-renowned attractions Johnny Cash Museum, Patsy Cline Museum and Tina Turner Museum, record breaking singer-songwriter Jesse Rice, as well as ACM, CMA and Grammy award- winning artist and actor Gary Morris.
“I’ve known Pam Lewis since we both moved to Nashville during the 1980s and became a big part of that great era in music. It’s been wonderful to re-connect around my new band’s efforts including some work with Zac Brown. Both New Frontier Touring and PLA Media believes that my band of family members has something very special to share, and I certainly agree with that!” -Mark O’Connor
“Mark is a legend in every sense of the word and has an amazing list of accomplishments. I’m excited to add him to our roster and be a part of all of the exciting projects he has in the works.” – Brittney Wilkerson, Senior Publicist
About Mark O’Connor:
At age 13, Mark O’Connor was the youngest person ever to win the Grand Master Fiddler Championships competing against all ages, amateur and professional. Forty years later, his record still stands.
At age 17 Mr. O’Connor played guitar as a member of one of the greatest acoustic string bands of the 1970s, the David Grisman Quintet. At age 19 he played violin and guitar alongside Steve Morse as a member of one of the greatest rock-fusion instrumental bands of the 1980s, The Dregs. In his twenties he was a member of Strength in Numbers (with Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas and Edgar Meyer). During his twenties, Mr. O’Connor became the most in demand session musician of any instrument and in any genre for a 3-year period, appearing on more top ten hits in the country, recording over 500 albums, and recording with everyone – Dolly Parton, James Taylor, Doc Watson, Paul Simon, Wytnon Marsalis, John Williams, Randy Travis, Earl Scruggs… The list is too long to print.
After recording a series of albums for Rounder and Warner Bros including his multiple Grammy-winning New Nashville Cats, his recordings for Sony Classical with Yo-Yo Ma, Appalachia Waltz and Appalachian Journey sold a million CDs and gained O’Connor worldwide recognition as a leading proponent of a new American musical idiom. Mr. O’Connor’s Fiddle Concerto released on Warner Bros. has become the most-performed violin concerto composed in the last 50 years.
Now, at age 57, he has melded these influences into a new American classical music, and is perpetuating his vision of an American School of String Playing. In addition to his stellar performance career, Mark has authored a series of educational books called the O’Connor Method and is now the fastest growing violin method in the country. Mr. O’Connor continues to perform as guest with symphony orchestra and tours nationally with his wife Maggie O’Connor as a duo, and with the newly Grammy-winning Mark O’Connor Band featuring more of his family members.
This year Mr. O’Connor is celebrating his 45th anniversary as a solo recording artist having released 45 feature albums since 1974. Mark currently releases albums on his own indy label OMAC Records and is represented in North America by New Frontier Touring, Nashville, TN.
For more information visit Mark’s website, www.markoconnor.com
