Sunday, January 11, 2026

Mark and Maggie O'Connor Duo Up for Christmas

 

Mark and Maggie O'Connor Duo Up for Christmas

This 2025 holiday album is Mark O'Connor's follow-up to the perennial An Appalachian Christmas of 2011 featuring several guest artists and for which he created annual concert tours.

Through the years these tours featured various musicians including the Grammy-winning bluegrass ensemble O'Connor Band. Since 2014, Mark's wife Maggie O'Connor joined the tour lineup. After the pandemic in 2022, Mark wanted to try the tour as a duet since they were putting finishing touches on their vocal album, Life After Life. The result of the new husband-and-wife Christmas setlist was musical magic.

1. The Holly and the Ivy

2 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

3 God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

4 Christmas Time's A Comin'

5 Silent Night

6 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

7 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring / F.C.'s Jig

8 It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

9 The Cherry Tree Carol

10 The First Noel

11, What Child Is This?

12 Carol of the Gypsy Bells

13 Hold That Tiger Rudolph

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