Mark O'Connor's An Appalachian Christmas featuring Maggie O'Connor
Mon, Dec 22 -
Tue, Dec 23, 2025
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Night of show seating typically available.
No Discount ShowVouchers, promotional certificates, donated gift certificates, student/military discounts, senior discounts, children under 12 free discounts and 2 for 1 cards are not applicable for this show. *Exchange Vouchers are accepted for all shows
Dimitirou's Jazz Alley welcomes 3x Grammy-winner, 7x CMA award winner, composer/fiddler Mark O'Connor featuring vocalist/fiddler Maggie O'Connor for two nights and two shows, on tour in support of their new album "A Christmas Duo." Show time Monday and Tuesday at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm each night. This show is supported by KBCS.
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“A national treasure” – Wynton Marsalis
“All Christmas music should be played so elegantly on violin" -Boston Globe
Grammy Award winning Americana, bluegrass, classical and jazz artists Mark and Maggie O’Connor will be releasing their new album A Christmas Duo this fall on OMAC Records to coincide with their annual holiday tour, An Appalachian Christmas.
Mark O’Connor, a three-time Grammy winner, is a legendary musician well-known for his instrumental virtuosity as well has his American classical compositions for Yo-Yo Ma and symphony orchestras. His wife, Maggie, a talented violinist in her own right who earned her Grammy by playing bluegrass with the O’Connor Band, plays fiddle and sings lead on the forthcoming album, while Mark adds harmonies and plays fiddle, guitar, mandolin and mandocello.
As Mark, a seven-time CMA Musician of the Year, explains, “This recording is our duo at its level best. The annual touring of my An Appalachian Christmas helped us discover on stage what this genre could really unfold artistically when we bring to the forefront all of our stringed instruments along with our vocals. We found another dimension to the music here—a spirited instrumental tour-de-force if you will. We’re getting standing ovations in the middle of the concerts, and it’s Christmas music!”
Over the course of several years, the O’Connors have compiled a new set list of Christmas songs that distinguish themselves from the perennial album they tour each year and celebrate. This set of reimagined holiday classics compliment the duo setting exquisitely.
A Christmas Duet
1) Silent Night
2) Christmas Time’s a Comin’
3) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
4) Hark! The Angels Sing
5) Hold That Tiger Rudolph
6) It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
7) Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring / F.C.’s Jig
8) The Cherry Tree Carol
9) Carol of the Gypsy Bells
10) The First Noel
11) The Holly and the Ivy
12) What Child Is This?
13) It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Mark O’Connor’s An Appalachian Christmas album (2011) reached the #1 ranking on Billboard’s Bluegrass Album charts. Hailed by critics from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Los Angeles Times as a top 10 album of the holiday season, it has become a perennial classic Christmas recording.
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This performance requires payment at the time your reservation is made. Exact seats/tables may be purchased when you make your online reservation or you can call Jazz Alley at 206-441-9729 for assistance. All purchases are nonrefundable/nonexchangeable. Vouchers, promotional certificates, donated gift certificates, student/military discounts, senior discounts, children under 12 free discounts and 2 for 1 cards are not applicable for this show.
Preferential seating is given to our dinner guests. All sets are all ages. Dimitriou's Jazz Alley does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, national or ethnic origin. Jazz Alley is a seated night club, not a dance hall, every person admitted has an assigned fixed seat. Dining is optional.
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