Mark Schuster
Mark Schuster and Maria Zann "were both trained as biologists, and taught themselves to play Australian dance music eight years ago. ... Mark Schuster's grandparents were German immigrants to north Queensland. He plays button accordian, is interested in oral history and European ethnic dance music and collects dance music for the National Library. We have taught these dances and tunes at folk festival workshops and written articles about the many wonderful people we have met in "Queensland Folk"." -- "A Queensland Selection", Vol 1, compiled by Maria Zann, collected by Mark Schuster, Pioneer Performer Series, Carrawobbity Press, 1992, p4.
"When we returned to Queensland in 1988, after exile in Canberra for five years, Mark and I began to collect dance music and dances in earnest. Fortunately there were elderly musicians and dance M.C.'s (Masters of Ceremonies) in out of the way places who were keen to teach us their repertoires." -- ibid. p1.
The Mark Schuster and Maria Zann folklore collection 1958-1998 is held in the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
Mark Schuster collected, provided details & recorded of some of the Australian tunes in this archive.
He collected both Bill Hohn's and Bill Staatz's tunes, among others.
