Since his childhood, Mark Clavey has performed in venues as diverse as award-winning choral and theatrical ensembles, and in bands playing anything from Classical music to marches to ragtime, swing, and Big Band. Growing up in a musical family, his journey began at the age of nine with a classical study of instrumental and vocal music, and continues today. A fan of folk music, Mark cut his teeth on artists from the Kingston Trio to Crosby, Stills & Nash. But it was the music of John Denver that got the guitar into his hands.

Mark stepped onto the path of Celtic music nearly four decades ago, listening to music from the Corries and the Clancy Brothers, the Tannahill Weavers and the Chieftains. Mark has performed on stages nationwide – from the Sacramento Valley Highland Games to the Great Irish Faire in New York City – and on seven concert tours of Ireland and Scotland over the past 16 years.