Mark Ferguson

Mark Ferguson - Band Leader/Arranger, Piano,Trombone

Mark “R.B. (Respected Bandleader)”Ferguson is well known for his suave manner and freakishly large sombrero. His spectacular musical arrangements have created the new voice of swing and his spectacular capacity for ice cream has created a boom in dairies throughout much of North America. Word has it that European cows are gearing up.

1. If you were not a musician what would you be?

The Dalai Lama

2. If you could have a dinner party with any four figures from history whom would you invite?

The 3 Stooges (including Shemp & Curly)

3. If you could live during any time period at all what would it be?

Pleistocene

4. If you could have one movie prop for your very own what would you choose?

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

5. Favourite movie?

Duck Soup

6. Favourite book or author?

Cod: the fish that changed the world.

7. What is your most treasured possession?

My freakishly large sombrero.

8. What is your motto?

"What, me worry?"

9. Favourite word?

Endoplasmic reticulum (I think that's 2 words)

10. What is your most marked characteristic?

I take questionnaires very seriously.

11. Which historical or fictional figure do you most identify with?

King Henry the 8th.

12. What is your favourite indulgence?

Ice Cream.

13.If you could have personally witnessed any one event in history what would you like it to have been?

The invention of ice cream.

14. If you could possess one supernatural ability what would it be?

The ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound.

15. If you were to cast any actor, living or dead, to play you in a film, who would you select?

Either Gregory Peck or Pee Wee Herman.

16. What would the title of your autobiography be?

"You want me to wear that thing!?"

17. If you could eat as much as you want of any one food with absolutely no ill effect, what food would you choose?

Ice cream.

18. Favourite season?

Stanley Cup playoffs.

19. If you could have a jam session with any three musicians in history who would you choose?

Maurice Ravel, Wayne Shorter and J.S. Bach.

20. If you were to have a family crest what symbols would it bear?

The 3 stooges dressed in kilts.

21. What television show, past or present, best represents your life?

The Dukes of Hazzard.

22. If you could be on the cover of any magazine, which one would it be and what would the headline be?

Glamour - "How to look great in a freakishly large sombrero".

23. What is your best childhood memory?

Wrecking my big brother's toy boat in the sand.

24. Pet peeve?

Filling out questionnaires.

25. If you were to fill a time capsule the size of a shoe box, to be opened hundreds of years from now, what would you put inside it to represent your life?

Smoked almonds and pictures of dogs wearing sunglasses.