Mark Freeman and The Elders are a Cleveland-based band that allows listeners to experience a full range of emotions. Ballads about love and heartache and songs that center on significant and insignificant historic events. The band is Bill Watson on bass and tuba, Mark Olitsky on banjo and Mark Freeman on guitar and harmonica. Freeman also writes all the songs. Their performances are always uplifting, intelligent, thought provoking and insightful.