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Name: Downtown Pittsburgh
Address: Pittsburgh, PA

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Mark Strickland Trio

May 17, 2022 - May 17, 2022 | 5:00 pm - 12:00 am

Backstage Bar at Theater Square
655 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

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Mark Strickland started playing guitar around the age of 12, taking guitar lessons in Downtown Pittsburgh in the Werner Building located where the Greer Cabaret Theatre is now on Penn Avenue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. He played in several Rock n Roll bands in the 60s and 70s. In the late 60s, after seeing and hearing some of the jazz players at the Hurricane Club and the Crawford Grill, to name of few of the places, is when he started playing jazz.