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- About Me:
- Skye plays the violin. Skye has a voice. She uses all that she’s got. Calling on the company of J.S. Bach, Bjork, Ella Fitzgerald, Shostakovitch, & Violeta Parra, Skye creates a folksy, classical & soulful duet that resonates between her two instruments. Her songs are theatrical. The music involves dream-like stories, images from childhood, stomping on tambourines, snapping strings and hitting the wooden belly of her violin. Skye can be found performing solo and collaborating with many fellow artist-friends around the Midwest.
Skye began taking violin lessons when she was five years-old in Iowa City, Iowa. With her mother being a classically-trained harpist and her father, a vocalist, having family roots in South America, Skye has experienced the fine arts from a unique perspective since she was very young. She grew up listening to symphonic and chamber works by Debussy, Mahler, Dvorak and others. The sounds of Hector Lavoe, Buena Vista Social Club, & Tito Puente always accompanied large, food-filled family gatherings. Not to mention many hours of dancing.
After four years of choral singing throughout high school, Skye went on to study violin performance and Spanish at the University of Iowa in 2003. With the guidance of several amazing professors, Skye spent many hours in the practice room working on technique and falling in love with music of Eastern-European composers such as Bartok and Kodaly. She discovered a passion for poetry-writing during her course work as well.
In the autumn of 2006, Skye began composing original music that expanded her classical training and that also encompassed her love for singing, poetry & the rich culture of folk music that composers like Bartok had revealed for her. Skye has been writing & performing her own music ever since, with special inspiration from her first chamber-pop band, Skursula (2006-2008). She is in the process of recording her first official album.
In the past, Skye has performed with and/or recorded for Jandek, Hauschka, Paleo, Monadnoc, Brooks Strause, William Elliott Whitmore, Jenny Hoysten, Olivia Rose Muzzy, These United States, Rosalee Motor Revival, Mondo Drag, Pennyhawk & many others.
- Website:
- http://www.myspace.com/skyecarrasco
Podcasts, Mixtapes, Youtube & More!
Podcast featuring interviews and music of Skye Carrasco, Awful Purdies & Idris Goodwin
http://artistsinactionradio.org/AIA%20Home/0BF34A31-5503-44D5-A164-3B9DC9D4AB1D.html
Visit this site now! A free download of a mixtape is available only until April!
http://www.kruiradio.org/
Youtube video of "Dew Drops" at a January concert in Fairfield, IA at The Beauty Shop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtDaQcCz1Mk
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