Famous Octave Mandolin players

[Mandolin Cafe]

There's this guy, one of our favorites from a very favorite band.

[Mandolin Cafe]

And these two fellers:

[Doug Freeman]

Dominick Leslie playing an Austin Clark OM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E7WUtIHwvo

[Simon DS]

One of my favourites, not octave but he probably could play one!

[mrmando]

oops ... never mind

[mandocrucian]

Famous Irish bouzouki players (GDAD) we have a-plenty, but how about OM players?

This a rather silly and pretty irrelevant distinction, imo. You can play just about any genre tuned either way (GDAD or GDAE). One 'de-tuned" set of strings does not a different instrument make. I suppose what you really mean is bluegrass & old-time played on oversized mando?

[Richard Singleton]

Somebody listed Danny Carnahan, but we forget Paul Kotapish, also of Wake the Dead!

Also Mandolin Cafe's Allen Hopkins. Yes I still have and love my Thistledown cassette!