Banners Season Starts Saturday with Grammy Winner Mark O’Connor

The McNeese Banners Series is starting off it's new season with the Grammy Award winning Mark O' Connor and his string quartet.

You may well ask, "what kind of music do they play?" The short answer is that that they play just about every kind of music you care to name.

Mark O' Connor can "fiddle" with the best Bluegrass musicians in the world or launch into everything else from classical to blues.

From the McNeese Banners Website

O'Connor String Quartet
Sat, Feb 23, 2013 7:30 pm
F.G. Bulber Auditorium
Lake Charles, LA

Grammy Award-winning violinist/composer/fiddler Mark O’Connor is widely recognized as one of the most gifted contemporary composers in America and surely one of the brightest talents of his generation. Mark O’Connor incorporates many musical styles and genres into a sound that is uniquely his own. The performance will be presented as a quartet. This quartet offers an unforgettable evening of explorations in new musical territory.