Máirtín O'Connor
Máirtín O'Connor is an Irish button accordionist from Galway, Ireland, who began playing at the age of nine, and whose career has seen him as a member of many traditional music groups that include Skylark, Midnight Well, De Dannan, and The Boys of the Lough. A traditional Irish musician, O'Connor was one of the major forces of the music in Riverdance. His first solo album The Connachtman's Rambles established him as a solo musician and proved a major critical success.
Also recorded as Martin O'Connor
Máirtín O'Connor
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- Máirtín O'Connor
- Birthplace
- Galway, Ireland
- Occupation
- Musician
- Born
- 1955 · Galway.
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Fields
- Irish folk music · Gypsy jazz
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Máirtín O'Connor is an Irish button accordionist from Galway, Ireland, who began playing at the age of nine, and whose career has seen him as a member of many traditional music groups that include Skylark, Midnight Well, De Dannan, and The Boys of the Lough. A traditional Irish musician, O'Connor was one of the major forces of the music in Riverdance. His first solo album The Connachtman's Rambles established him as a solo musician and proved a major critical success.
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O'Connor has released four albums since: Perpetual Motion, Chatterbox, The Road West and Rain Of Light.
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• Name — Máirtín O'Connor • Birthplace — Galway, Ireland • Instrument — Accordion • Occupation — Musician • Associated Acts — Midnight Well, De Dannan, The Boys of the Lough, Skylark, Cara Dillon • Illustration — O'Connor (right) with Frankie Gavin, on stage with De Dannan at the 1985 Trowbridge Folk Festival
Solo work
Solo work
• The Connachtman's Rambles (1979) • Perpetual Motion (1990) • Chatterbox (1993) • The Road West (2001) • Rain Of Light (2003)
With others
With others
• EastWind (1992) • Crossroads with Cathal Hayden and Seamie O'Dowd (2008) • Going Places with Cathal Hayden and Seamie O'Dowd, as Máirtín O'Connor Band (2011) • Zoë Conway, Dónal Lunny and Máirtín O' Connor 2016
Session work
Session work
• A Stór Is A Stóirín (1994) • Riverdance: Music from the Show (1995) • When I Was Young (1997) • Fis Carolan's Dream (Garry O'Briain) (1998)
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