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Mark O'Connor plays at the 1st Merlefest - only a few hundred people in attendance. The stage was a simple back of a flat bed truck! Mark's son was just born and in attendance at the festival at 3 weeks old.

Mark also performed with Merle Watson's father Doc Watson that year, Emmy Lou Harris, Earl Scruggs the Smith Sisters and more.

Bluegrass Greats - a jam session on stage at the finest:

Tony Rice - guitar, Sam Bush - mandolin, Bela Fleck - banjo, Jerry Douglas - dobro, John Cowan - bass, Mark O'Connor - fiddle.

“Have you heard any of the stuff that was done by the group of myself and Sam, and Bela and Flux, and Mark O’Connor? Have you heard any of that stuff? It was back at MerleFest, there’s quite a bit of footage of us playing live. There’s tunes like Freeborn Man and Nine Pound Hammer, were - you talk about an ensemble. And uh – I don’t know – Mark O’Connor playing that bluegrass fiddle like that was just absolutely mind-blowing. I’ll go and get on my computer and listen to that stuff and listen to him paying the solos in Freeborn Man and Nine Pound Hammer – listen to Jerry Douglas’s solos and I think Jesus, this is just amazing shit.” –Tony Rice (taken from “A Conversation with Tony Rice directed by Jan Johansson, in 2019)


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