Thursday, February 19, 2009
For Ben Markley, music is a family matter. Both of his parents taught music for a living. Markley, who hails from Chapman, says he started taking piano lessons at the age of three. He didn’t accept music as his calling, though. “I wasn’t music full speed ahead in my high school years,” he says. Even in college, Markley didn’t gravitate toward a music major. He says he received a golf scholarship to Fort Hays State University and focused on sports and other things in his first few years of college.
In his junior year, though, he finally settled on music. “I guess I wasn’t really finding a lot of fulfillment in the other things that I was doing and music seemed to do that,” Markley says.
Family matters: Ben Markley enjoys performing in Kansas because his family and friends can give him honest feedback.
Markley and says he likes performing in Kansas because he can get feedback from those people most familiar with his music: his family and friends. “They, more than people I don’t know, have seen me evolve,” he says. Markley fought against music for a while but now he’s in the groove and enjoys his profession. “For me, it’s the journey of music,” Markley says.
Markley will be performing at the Folk on Mass House Concerts, 1646 Massachusetts Street, on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
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