Máirtín O'Connor

Máirtín O'Connor
O'Connor backing Cara Dillon at the 2012 Bristol Folk Festival
Background information
BornGalway, Ireland
OccupationMusician
InstrumentAccordion

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. O'Connor has released four albums since: Perpetual Motion, Chatterbox, The Road West and Rain Of Light.