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As the legend Patsy Cline used to say, "If you can't do it with feeling, don't do it!"... and it's with plenty of deep love and sincere, honest feeling that Mark Statler sings and entertains... straight from his heart.

With a smooth, progressive country/pop sound similar to B.J. Thomas and the late, great Marty Robbins... Mark delivers an emotion-packed concert with refreshing, unreserved candor and sincerity. Rich, rangy vocals, a clean-cut, "down-home" sense of humor, and lots of compassionate, open communication with his audience helps Mark win the hearts of young and old alike.

As one person recently said, "Being with Mark and hearing him sing is as close and personal as sharing heart to heart, at home, over a cup of coffee."

Amazingly, within a few short years, Mark has gone from singing in three tiny country churches he pastored for the East Ohio Converence of the United Methodist Church... to making a career in gospel and country music... to
becoming an honored member and regular performer with the world famous Jamboree U.S.A, opening for such country greats as The Judds, Glen Campbell, Loretta Lynn, Brenda Lee, Barbara Mandrell, Tammy Wynette, Marie Osmond, The Statler Brothers, Lorrie Morgan and many others.

Mark has opened in song for gospel artists/speakers such as Dino, Phil Driscoll, Nicky Cruz, Mike Adkins, The Florida Boys and the Blue Ridge Quartet; and has headlined the Gospel Jamboree U.S.A., several times, at the Capitol Music Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia. Mark has toured with world-class harpist and Dove Award winning artist Greg Buchanan. Greg has performed for the Rev. Billy Graham, at the White House, and every major gospel venue in the United States.

Growing up in the small, rural town of Jewett, Ohio, with strong, loving family ties, gave Mark a down-to-earth, easily approchable attitude and secure, trustworthy values to live by. And as Mark says, "I want those same values and attitudes of unconditional love that I received at home to show up in my personal life as well as on stage.

Mark graduated Valedictorian of his high school class and went on to study communications at Akron University and Kent State University. Mark graduated from Career Academy in Columbus, Ohio, with a license to broadcast on radio and television. He attended Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, and finally graduated with a B.S. in Education from Ohio University.

Experiences as a pastor, counselor, and teacher, coupled with his own life travels, brings a powerful wealth of wisdom, emotion and honesty to Mark's singing. As one person said, "God has not only given Mark the gift of singing, but also the gift of healing words and compassion."

Singing has taken Mark over most of the U.S. and also to Canada, Egypt, Greece, Italy and Israel. He has sung for our soldiers at military bases such as Fort Knox and Fort Bragg; on many television and radio programs, schools, fairs, festivals and churches of all denominations.

Mark has performed before 80,000 country fans at the "Superbowl of Country Music" Jamboree in the Hills in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and has headlined shows at Jamboree U.S.A. in Wheeling, West Virginia (the second longest running live radio country music show in America). Mark was also a finalist on the national TV show, "You Can Be A Star", on the Nashville Network.

Mark and good friend Ron Retzer (Jamboree U.S.A. musical director) were co-producers and co-hosts of "Feeling at Home", a weekly thirty minute radio program of discussion, music, and interviews. Sponsored by 50,000 watt WWVA radio in Wheeling, the program aired for four years reaching into eighteen states and six Canadian provinces.

Mark holds an annual outdoor "Homecoming" concert with Ron Retzer and Jamboree's own 1170 Band in Wheeling. The concert has drawn a large crowd of faithful followers for over twenty years.

To the amazement of himself and many friends and associates, Mark stretched his talents to include performing as master illusionist in "Illusionaria", an exciting show of magic illusions, music and dance, for an entire season at Six Flags of Ohio (formerly Geauga Lake Park). Mark was also awarded and is registered with the "Outstanding Young Men of America."

Along with the traveling and singing, Mark is also presently the associate pastor at First United Methodist Church in Carrollton, Ohio. Described as "sensitive", "vulnerable", "genuine", and "transparent", Mark continues beyond these superlatives to be faithful to his "calling"... to share love and music from his heart to the hearts of people everywhere... with "feeling".