MARK SHOWALTER
Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Saxophone
mark@houseoffloyd.com

An active part of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene, Mark has been performing professionally for over 25 years. His many credits include, touring the country from 1999-2001 with Gregg Allman & Friends. He has also shared the stage with such artists as Dave Mason and Jim Capaldi (Traffic), Buzz Feiten, Warren Haynes, Norton Buffalo, and Eddie Money, as well as members of Night Ranger, Boston, .38 Special, Robert Cray, and Huey Lewis and The News.

He has headlined at prestigious festivals and concert venues including the Santa Cruz Blues Festival, Sarasota Blues Festival, Peter Gabriels' WOMAD Festival, The Las Vegas Aladdin Casino, B.B. King's club in NYC, and many of the House of Blues venues across the country including Hollywood, New Orleans and Chicago. He's shared the bill with world class acts such as The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Neville Brothers, Issac Hayes, and David Crosby, just to name a few.

Reviews of his live performances have noted a "soulful King Curtis inspired....sound" --Chicago Sun-Times; "Sweet saxophone spiced up the night"- Syracuse Post-Standard; "...the soul flavor that he added to the mix" -The Hartford Courant; "...an amazing and masterful instrumentalist that invest his whole being into his performances." - Bay Performance Society.

He is one of the most sought after musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area, having received critical acclaim as Gregg Allman's Saxophonist. His musical capabilities have enabled him to be a successful free-lance musician in the greatly varied genres of today's music industry. In addition to his expertise as a saxophonist, Mark is an experienced songwriter, keyboardist, guitarist, and vocalist in multiple musical projects and recordings.

“In my lifelong musical career I have been a part of just about every kind of musical genre there is. I've been in blues bands, jazz bands, big bands, rock bands, top 40 bands, disco bands, new wave bands, oldies bands, R&B bands, duos, countless original bands and touring bands. I feel that I have finally come full circle in what I am now doing the music that I have always loved and grew up with, Pink Floyd. With the emergence of the tribute genre as an option and the opportunity to bring this music to large audiences, with the visuals that I had always envisioned as a vital part of a rock show, House of Floyd is finally bringing to me the satisfaction in the music business that I always knew was there!“ - Mark