“We Just Happened to Fly”
Out June 16
“We Just Happened To Fly”, performed by Mark and Maggie O’Connor, is an Americana song written by Mark O’Connor and Joe Henry. The lyric deals with the idea of a couple taking a leap of faith together—holding hands, hearts entwined and believing they can fly. The acoustic guitar and violin along with a driving upright bass and drum set find the beating heart of these words with a certain inevitability—as if their meaning could’ve never gone any other way. A beautifully produced music video of the song shows Mark and Maggie alone on a wooden deck atop a forested mountain singing together and playing their instruments hand-in-hand as they take flight.
Verbovaya Doschechka is a well-known old Ukrainian folk song. At the outset of the war one year ago, Mark and Maggie O'Connor participated in an online-performance of this song with members of the Kiev Symphony recording their violin parts from basements turned bunkers attempting to shield themselves from Russian missiles. Mark and Maggie were so moved by this musical experience and the beauty of this piece of music that Mark arranged it for two violins to honor the hopes and safety of the Ukrainian people at this time. @ViolinistsSupportUkraine
New Releases - Tracks and Music Videos
New Releases - Tracks and Music Videos
2023
New Project - Tracks and Music Videos
New album featuring vocals and instrumentals. Mark and Maggie have been existing in an uninterrupted musical collaboration since the day they met eight years ago in 2014. As they were perfecting the finer points of Mark’s American Classical violin duos, it got so good that they decided to get married. The next stage of their musical journey turned into a larger family collaboration for which they each took home a Grammy for playing bluegrass in the O’Connor Band. Now, they have turned yet another musical corner. With a year-and-a-half of isolation from touring during the world-wide pandemic, they dedicated their days and nights towards further musical growth together. The couple workshopped new songs during seventy weekly online concerts from home; Mondays with Mark and Maggie. A group of dedicated viewers watched as they made their musical experiments, some fans tuning in for all of them. What came out of this exploration is an Americana album project of mostly original vocal songs they sing together, other popular songs reimagined, and all of them supported by a small universe of acoustic instruments they’ve brushed up on in the time off the road. The album reveals the pair’s most sincere and deeply personal work yet.
More Tracks and Music Videos Coming Soon…
Nashville Recording Session at Sound Emporium - Studio A:
Neal Cappellino, Maggie & Mark O’Connor, John Gardner, & Dennis Crouch
