Ocho

Inducted: March 2009

Everything about Ocho is quintessential folk.
The long hair, the scruffy beard, the acoustic guitar and, of course, the folk-rock he makes with it. “Light songs on heavy subjects,” he said.
Ocho, addressed as David O’Connell on his mail, has been playing music in the Mankato area for the past eight years. He grew up in Pierre, S.D., before moving to Ashland, Ore., and later to Mankato.
He plays a couple of shows a month, usually at the Coffee Hag and the Sugar Room. And he practices every day in his bedroom, he says.
Home-grown albums include “Chicken Soup for the Chicken” (2003), “How to Make Everything Perfect” (2004), “GorillaBuddha!” (2006), “Let’s Get ‘em!” (2007). He also covers the Dead Kennedys, They Might be Giants, REM, Misfits, Old ’97s and Van Morrison.



To read a Q&A with Ocho, click here.
To hear an audio sample, click here.