Mark has been a professional musician and music educator for 38 years having performed along side  Michael Martin Murphy , Jerry Jeff Walker during the 70’s and Christian recording artist Cynthia Clawson during the 
80’s. Although Mark is a classical orchestral conductor he enjoys all musical genres. He writes and records his own style of acoustic music with a cd entitled “Darlin Rose”. Mark has recorded a second album 2018 entitled Mark Best – With A Little Help From My Friends a collection of Beatle material performed Americana style. Mark  began a fiddling program in 1995 for Abilene I.S.D. where the Cooper High School Fiddlers played for TMEA (Texas Music Educators Association) with Sony recording artist Mark O’Connor. Further concerts include performances with country recording artists Ricky Skaggs, Lee Ann Womack, the opening of The National Cowgirl Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas and for First Lady Laura Bush.  The fiddlers recorded three cd’s and four music videos in a span of 6 years and performed from San Francisco to the New York City Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Mark performed for the Rockbox Theater (Fredericksburg Texas) from 2008 – 2011 as a member of the cast. Mark performs on acoustic guitar, electric guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, electric bass, acoustic bass and vocals. www.markbestmusic.com

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