Independent Banker - February 2021 - 72

OUT OF OFFICE
Mark Bragelman
of Liberty Bank
Minnesota collects
vintage guitars.
Mark Bragelman:
Guitar man
Mark Bragelman, CEO and president of $270 million-asset Liberty Bank
Minnesota in St. Cloud, Minn., has played guitar for decades, including
onstage at the community bank's annual block party.
I was 8 or 9 years old when I started
taking classical guitar lessons.
Actually, my folks took me to a place
to see if I wanted to learn how to play
the accordion. In the corner of the
store, they had these guitars, and I
was really happy about that, because I
learned music and theory.
Now I collect guitars, and
I like to collect old vintage
instruments. We have a room in
the bank that we call the Vault.
[It's] a huge two-story room of
memorabilia. It's really been fun
to find that stuff and be able to
collect it.
72 Q ICBA Independent Banker Q February 2021
For 31 years, [Liberty Bank
Minnesota] has done a block party,
[which] has been a really phenomenal
success. A summer ago, about halfway
through [the event], the lead singer from
the opening act looked at me and said,
" I don't know if I can go on. " The band
is looking at each other like, " What are
we going to do? " I said, " Well, let's have
some fun. " I grabbed the guitar and went
up there. And the looks on the headlining
band's faces because they spent the last
eight hours [seeing me] as Mr. Banker.
[Customers] get the biggest kick out
of that. I had a customer that, while I
was up there playing; he took a video.
I heard later that he sent this text to a
friend of his: " My banker is cooler than
your banker. " -Courtney Welu
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