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Sky's Vision Statement:


The only thing we can change is ourselves. Yet this can change the world.

Sky offers music that is instantly likable, yet, like the wine in his home of Sonoma County, gets better with time. Sky is a three-time winner of West Coast Songwriters "Best Performance” and two-times for "Best Song” (Space for Uncertainty, Tied-up Tied-down).

Aptly named by his dad while looking out the window from the Point Reyes Youth Hostel on the beach where he was born, Sky has walked a unique path. Instead of looking for instant notoriety, Sky spent his first 30 years learning about the inner world and trying to come to terms with the suffering of life. Between his work as a physicist and the practice of his music, he strove to find broader meaning in life’s course.

In a dream one night, he was asked “are you a Moses or a musician?”… Sky answered instinctively “I'm a musician.” From that night forward Sky dedicated himself to his muse and has never looked back. In becoming focused on his own life-passion, and becoming willing to let the people in his life be themselves, his own life has transformed. Sky’s intention is to liberate himself from suffering, and inspire his audience to do the same. He lives the life he believes in, and puts it to song.

Sky has played piano since the age of 3, and has performed around the San Francisco Bay Area with various groups. He has studied at Berklee College of Music, UC Berkeley (BA Physics), and with numerous private teachers. Sky also experimented with a normal life as a high school physics teacher for 5 years.

Sky leads a charmed existence, balancing a very fulfilling personal life with a tremendous dedication to his vision for the future. When not composing and practicing, he can be found volunteering for the Barack Obama campaign, and spending the wee hours of the night developing an unsolicited theory which weaves together advanced physics and consciousness studies. After all, the muse knows no genre limitations.

Recently The Sky Band has been refining its chops at:

The Sweet Spot, Santa Rosa, CA
Ace in the Hole, Graton, CA
The Old Western Saloon, Point Reyes Station, CA
The Peace Party, Sebastopol, CABella Vineyards, Healdsburg, CA
Healdsburg Bar and Grill, Healdsburg, CA
Appearances on KRSH 95.9 FM Santa Rosa, CA
Appearances on KWMR, 90.5 FM
The Station House, Point Reyes Station, CA

...and others.

The Sky Band Set List includes:
Release the Fear
Tied Up Tied Down
Waitin' on the World to Change (Mayer)
Space for Uncertainty
Lady Madonna (Lennon/McCartney)
Always Lose to You
World of Possibility
Too Damn Good
No Such Thing (Mayer)
Back in the USSR (Lennon/McCartney)
Don't Sell Me a Lemon
Slip Slidin’ Away (Simon)

"Gorgeous melody and chord changes. I'm really impressed."
-Jai Josefs, master songwriter, re: “Space for Uncertainty”, and “Always Lose to You”

"Sky Nelson’s ... debut CD offers us anthem after anthem of hope and power and How To Care. And he does it with deceptively simple arrangements and his clear, pleasing voice. Oh, and some potent lyrics. Don’t swallow these songs in a single gulp; they’ll leave you gasping for air. Sip them one at a time. Relish the beauty of lines like, “Claim your life, it’s never too late,” “Shadows will run just to see you smile,” “I’m…not too old for hope.”

(by Alice Loweecey at www.buddyhollywood.com)

“This may actually be a battle between light and darkness. The piano playing is great…The production is nice…I get sick of spoiled middle class bands emoting anger, depression, and pretension all over everything. Life is good. (Sky) may just seem too content for many dark bottom dwellers. There is no darkness here. “ Online review of Cell Phone Number (www.redfizz.com)