Pacific Northwest Guitarist, Eric Skye, To Play House Concert in Point Pleasant
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Pacific Northwest Guitarist, Eric Skye, To Play House Concert in Point Pleasant
Event Date: 10/24/2015
Location: , Point Pleasant, PA

Nationally touring solo acoustic guitarist based in Portland Oregon, who was born in Doylestown, coming to Bucks County, for only the second time in thirty six years, to do a solo house concert in a beautiful antique stone home in Point Pleasant, Saturday October 24. Advance tickets only, available at http://eric-skye-in-bucks-county.eventbrite.com/

Eric Skye occupies a unique niche. Most often billed as a jazz guitarist, he actually plays in an eclectic and original style, exploring areas between jazz, americana, and blues, all threaded together with a healthy respect for the groove, and a love of unadulterated acoustic tone. Skye’s most recent release, A Different Kind Of Blue -a solo acoustic guitar re-imagining of the iconic Miles Davis record Kind Of Blue was acknowledged and by the Miles Davis family and named in Acoustic Guitar magazine’s top ten albums of 2012.  Eric very recently released an acoustic guitar duo recording titled Artifact with Mark Goldenberg -longtime guitarist for Jackson Brown, Bonnie Raitt, and Linda Ronstadt. 

Eric Skye has performed on live morning television for NBC and FOX, has been featured on both National Public Radio, Public Radio International, performed and been interviewed on many live radio broadcasts in the United States and Europe. Skye has been featured in magazines such as Guitar Player, Acoustic Guitar, Jazziz, Jazz Improv, 20th Century Guitar, Acoustic (UK), Akustik Gitarree (Germany), The Guitar Note, The Guitar Bench, and is on the June 15’ cover of Acoustic Guitar magazine in China.

Eric has played all over the United States, at such notable acoustic and jazz venues as Yoshi’s in San Francisco, The Freight And Salvage in Berkeley, Club Passim in Cambridge MA, Rio Theater in Santa Cruz, the Alberta Rose Theater in Portland Oregon. Plus the NAMM shows in both Los Angeles and Nashville, and at the Healdsburg Guitar Festival in California and the Woodstock Guitar Festival in New York.  

In 2011 Eric was bestowed the rare honer of having the renown Santa Cruz Guitar Company release a signature model guitar. Find out more about Eric at http://www.ericskye.com.


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