Mark has been playing guitar and writing songs since high school.Mark`s influences are vast from the Beatles,Strawbs,Neil Young,Cat Stevens,James Taylor,Bowie,to Pearl Jam,Nirvana,Gin Blossoms ,Counting Crows and many others.
Mark was one of the winners of UMARC`S songwriting contest.Mark was one of the 8 winners who`s song was put on a cd the songs are about the Mohawk Valley the cd is called Umarc`s Mohawk Valley tribute cd available at cdbabay.com and various outlets in central NY..Mark plays at various coffee houses and bars throughout central NY.

Since 94,I have had this band usually as a seperate band from electric band Gypsy&Crazymoon which is blues rock.
Gypsy Piano Blues is solo or with friends.such as Gypsy piano &vocals with guitar or Gypsy with guitar and drums or Gypsy with guitar and bass ect.
Playing traditional blues/chicago blues/jump blues/delta blues and rockabilly.
A soulful blues piano was drifting out into the streets-Voices Magazine-State College PA Nov2005
Sounds Like Janis Joplin doing leadbelly-Code Pearl
Gypsy Piano Blues (All Out Of Lies-acoustic on Code Pearl-136 women down to 36 picked for cd for tribute to Janis Joplin to benefit Hurricane Katrina.
Best Local Band-Philly Music.com July 2004(explanation was not local brought in a two piece on contract at Philly bar for 6 months)
Airplay On UCLA,&Pitt Radio.Net,and many more stations nationwide(will update)