Who is The Real Mark Wimberley?

     Raised on vintage country and southern gospel music, Bluegrassically trained musician, singer-songwriter, Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year, and entertainer Mark Wimberley is a full time guitarist with the award-winning Wimberley Bluegrass Band. This page is just his random thoughts as he thinks them with no connections to his band's official website.

I'm The Real Mark Wimberley: accept no substitutes!  I'm a musician, vlogger, blogger, humorist, and Communications Practitioner. Allow me to introduce myself to you:

I was born very young, and in a hospital so I could be near my mother who was visiting at the time.  Right after that, I started talking. And I talked. And I talked.

And.

I.

Talked.

It wasn't too long before I outgrew my baby-babbling discourse and began to expand my sense of humor. It seemed as though I was born to be an entertainer. All the home videos bear witness to the incessant babbling that I had a natural talent for.

As a homeschooler, I took up the hobby of filmmaking...except I didn't have a high-quality camera, I didn't have a crew, I didn't even have any equipment outside of one of those small, tourist-y, I-got-a-picture-of-bigfoot, cameras. I rarely worked with a script, and filmed using the camera's stop-motion feature. The subjects of my films were often centered around original characters, such as a rat named John Charles Albert Müridae, a scientist, sharpshooter, and politician, who was supposedly over 400 years old. Kids and their imaginations, am I right?

Then, in 2005, my siblings and I stumbled by accident upon "The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will The Circle Be Unbroken Vol. 1", and our lives were changed forever. Three words: Foggy Mountain Breakdown. Yeah, we started a band because of that song.

Here we are, over fifteen years strong in the music industry. We've performed for a TEDx event, we've supplied background music for "The Middle", an ABC sitcom (season 6, episode 15), we've performed in all over the USA, performed Carol Barnett's "Bluegrass Mass" with the Chapman University Singers, we've recorded seven albums, hosted our own radio show on ChapmanRadio.com (Wimberley Bluegrass Hour, 5 seasons, 2014-2016), and so much more! We ain't ever gonna slow down, we love it so much!

This blog, "The Life of a Bluegrass Musician", was started late one night while I was doing Calculus homework. I worked hard to make sure that it brought unspeakable laughter and joy to it's readers. I still am terrible at Calculus.

My YouTube channel started because people were requesting me to sing songs. From there it sort of snowballed, and I re-discovered my love of performing for cameras. Goodness knows what a ham I am. I also found a new way to connect with people.

Alright. That was a lot to read. Here's the lightning round:

-I used to teach Karate

-I love traveling and have visited 28 of the United States.

-I got to jam with Ricky Skaggs once in a mutual friend's living room.

-I eat left-handed, but write right-handed. #SouthPawNation



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