"All Christmas Music Should Be Played So Elegantly On Violin" Boston Globe
Mark O'Connor's 'An Appalachian Christmas' rings in the holiday season with heaps of praise and, this week, hits #12 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart after last week‚s top 20 Billboard debuts on 3 charts (Bluegrass, Classical, Crossover). This week, he brought the multi-genre holiday collection to NPR's 'Here and Now,' and will soon be heard on WNYC's Soundcheck, eTown, and Performance Today.
Praise for 'An Appalachian Christmas':
"Elegant " - New York Times
„Heavenly‰ - Associated Press
„Bluegrass instrumentals and cosmopolitan crooners˜all paying their mountain dues‰ ˆ Wall Street Journal
"An absolute delight" ˆ American Songwriter
"Mark O'Connor is a maestro of many genres... [He] and his fiddle are in top form throughout" ˆ Metromix
„Lovely stuff from the fiddle virtuoso and his top-notch colleagues‰ ˆ Birmingham News
"Will leave goose bumps. Maybe even tears or a brief quiver" ˆ Ocala News
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