About Mark Showalter

Mark then attended Central Florida Community College in Ocala to study music in 1979, and the next year started performing professionally around the area (Gainesville-Ocala-Bellview). In 1981 Mark transferred to Belmont College in Nashville, and then in December of 1984 he moved to Memphis, where he started performing again full-time. In 1990 he returned to Ocala and continued performing & working as a tennis teaching pro & racket stringer at various stores around Orlando. It was in Lake Eola Park in Orlando that Mark started meeting some great friends/musicians, with Donna Shaffer on soprano vocals & harmonica. Folkstone was reformed, which originally started in Memphis in the late 80s. The next year Ken Russman joined the group on vocals/guitar & keys. Then about a year later, Bill Wuerfel joined the group on vocals & percussion.