Mark Wallney
Born in Chicago and raised on the west coast in San Jose, California where he first picked up a guitar at the age of 8 years old. The Beatles and Beach Boys where the earliest influences musically. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1965 and studied guitar under a graduate of Juliard Scool of Music, Mr. Jimmy Kaye. Mark moved to Lubbock where I attended Jr High, Coronado High School and graduated Texas Tech in 1983.
Mark has been performing professionally for 40 years and have shared the stage with James Brown, Firefall, Jerry Jeff Walker, Christopher Cross, Gatemouth Brown, Eric Johnson, Graham Nash and The Maines Brothers, Joe Bonnamasa, Shake Russell . Mark is currently teaching guitar and music business at South Plains College and is also a Certified Nashville Performance Coach.
Mark Wallney, Mike Pritchard, Mike Boyd and Bobby McDowell perform locally with The Hat Trick, a Classic/Rock/Folk band featuring 3 piece vocal harmonies and is also a working acoustic duo with fellow bandmate, Mike Pritchard.