Máirtín O'Connor facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Máirtín O'Connor
O'Connor backing Cara Dillon at the 2012 Bristol Folk Festival
Background information
Born	Galway, Ireland
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Accordion
Associated acts	Midnight Well, De Dannan, The Boys of the Lough, Skylark, Cara Dillon

O'Connor (right) with Frankie Gavin, on stage with De Dannan at the 1985 Trowbridge Folk Festival

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 the world-renowned Riverdance.

His first solo album A Connachtman's Rambles established him as a solo musician and proved a major critical success. O'Connor has released three albums since; Perpetual Motion, released in 1990, Chatterbox, released in 1993, and The Road West, released in 2005.

Discography

Solo work

• The Connachtman's Rambles (1979)
• Perpetual Motion (1990)
• Chatterbox (1993)
• The Road West (2001)
• Rain of Light (2003)

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

• 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)