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Luke Temple performs Medicine, live at Highliner Cafe, HomeskilletFest 2007. I will work on posting more music soon. Happy Holidays! [youtube]http://www.youtube....

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Great Review for Strummin Dogs ‘A Sign of Life’

Great Review for Strummin Dogs 'A Sign of Life' by by Mike Garner from New Zealands http://www.blues.co.nz/ Down The Line; Prayin' Boy; Tango Blues Bar; Through The Da...

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Silver Jackson EP Available on Itunes

Get Silver Jacksons EP Moves Like Music from Itunes Now!...

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Lee Asnin Posts New Track

Lee Asnin is currently at work in the studio and has gifted us a new track - Meet me o...

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Moves Like Music EP Now Available online!

Silver Jackson : Moves Like Music EP Track 1: Requiem 2: Nova 3: Tomorrow 4: Eight Years 5: Moves Like Music 6: Last Call This albums is finally starting to sho...

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Homeskillet Fest 2008

HomeskilletFest 2008 is in the mix, and heres what we can tell you about the show. It will kick ass. We are hard at work with next years lineup We have a fat stack...

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Poverty Bay Blues Club Celebrates First Birthday

Gisborne’s blues club reports successful first year. Poverty Bay Blues Club Celebrates First Birthday Gisborne’s blues club reports successful first year We ...

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Coming Soon from HSR to your living room!

Here is a projected list of projects going on right now with Homeskillet Records. Jed Delong has finished recording his long awaited Acoustic CD. Little Stones Father...

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Strummin Dog shares new song

Strummin Dog posts a new song. Listen here. You can purchase Strummin Dogs latest album ...

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Strummin Dog in NZed

ALASKAN singer/guitarist Dave Galanin has only been in Gisborne for just over a year but has already made a big impact on the local music scene. Gala...

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Jeff Aker Posts New Tune

Jeff Aker Posts another new tune. Check it here.Mississippi Blues We will be posti...

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Common Market

So this year we lost Sabzi to Blue Scholars stardom, and it hurt, but what made up for it was the tight nucleus that is Ra Scion's family. Mariangela and Maddy were able...

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Abyssinian Creole

Abysinnian Creole arrived Saturday morning on the EARLY flight. The first thing Gabriel Teodros said to me was, "I haven'...

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Konsept

Konsept came in Friday on the 11AM flight to Sitka on Friday. He stopped by the Devilfish gallery (aka HomeSkillet Headquarters), basically long enough for me to get a f...

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The Dessert

With DJ Astronomar not being able to make it to Sitka because of a new job, we were forced to settle with a little bit of Silver Jackson, a little bit of GEO, and a lot o...

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Haines Fair

Zak D. Wass, Silver Jackson, Thanny Bean and Justin Olbrych.... Arrive on a Thursday morning to the Haines Fair Ground. Silver Jackson will perform at the Haines Fair ...

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Silver Jackson and GYP on Southeast Tour

Silver Jackson and The Glorious Youth Parade embark on a small Southeast AK tour. Show starts tonight July 25th at 8pm... Live at the Alaskan Hotel. Silver Jackson wi...

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After the Party, there’s Sleep

I'm not sure what anyone else did, but I went to bed following Friday night's show. There was another show the following day and I knew it. At this point we were all pr...

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Jake La Botz

This is our second year having Jake come to HomeSkillet Fest, so when I bumped into him on Thursday night we immediately recognized eachother and said hello. It has been...

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Sonny Smith

Sonny Smith was brought to our attention via Amelia Budd, who was a big advocate of Sonny Smith music. And what do lucky HomeSkillet Fest volunteers get? A week with th...

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The Main Course

We managed to get all the necessary components of the festival done to kick off the Friday show on time. The headliners for each show were always set in stone, but the a...

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The Sea Mountain Setup

Before I had gotten to Thursday night's show, I had been out at the Sea Mountain Golf Course setting up the stage and helping out where I could. In my absence, Dan Littl...

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After the Party, there’s the After Party

"The P," was only a stones throw away from the Community House and the artists were all staying relatively close, so we decided to head down and see what all the fun was ...

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Luke Temple

Luke Temple and his bandmates, Tyler Wood and Mike Block, arrived the Tuesday night before the fest. Being the farthest away from Sitka initially, they arrived tired but...

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Kaninau

HomeSkillet Records is compiled of a big extended family who loves to do what they can to help out and support us. Kaninau came to us through one of those extended famil...

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HomeSkillet Fest - The Appetizer

Our goal for The Appetizer was to put it at an intimate venue where there would be a captive audience. The Sheet'ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi Community House provided just that s...

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A Helping Hand

Here are some last minute stake tweaks by Lee Burkhardt and Evan Love. These two were everywhere they could be to help on the days leading up to the fest. There is a ru...

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Nova’s Second HomeSkilletFest

Nova Galanin is thrilled to be attending HomeSkillet Fest again, she told me. This is her pre-fest, just hanging out with the magician known as Silver Jackson, her fathe...

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We’re Alive

I wanted to give a quick update that we are still alive and kicking. Unfortunately blogging isn't as essential to the show being put on as setting up the show at the gol...

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The Appetizer

We weren't sure what kind of turn out we would get for the part of HomeSkillet Fest deemed, "The Appetizer." Ultimately, we decided it would be nice to give folks a tast...

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HomeSkillet Fest Tent Setup

As anyone who is in Sitka knows, it has been raining non-stop on the days leading up to the fest. My count was up to five days straight the last I checked. We were wait...

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Moves Like Music EP

Silver Jackson will be releasing his six song 'Moves Like Music' EP Wednesday at the Highliner Cafe. Silver Jackson will be kicking off the 2007 Homeskillet Fest with a ...

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HomeSkillet Fest is Getting Close!

Silver Jackson playing the last show ever at his old residence. But it's the first post leading up to HomeSkillet Fest. This year we are most definitely going bigger....

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HomeSkillet Fest 2007 Catalog: It’s Official

We have been working diligently with sponsors and artists to bring you the official HomeSkillet Fest 2007 catalog. We will be distributing these throughout Southeast, Al...

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HomeSkillet Fest 2007

HomeskilletFest 2007 is near! We have been working overtime with sponsorship, planning etc. and things are starting to fall into place. Heres what you need to know, an...

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WE NEED YOUR AIRMILES

We are now taking donations for Homeskillet Fest. We are bringing 10 guest musicians up to perform and its not cheap. 40,000 miles will get us one ticket (its peak seas...

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Little Stones Father Live on KCAW

HERE IT IS... These guys are currently in the studio recording an EP due to release early this summer. Sorry for the shite footage... oh yea this is an acoustic version...

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Strummin Dogs ‘A Sign of Life’ Now Available on Itunes

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Homeskillet Fest 2007

The festival planning is in full swing, watch this site and www.homeskilletfest.com for details....

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You’ve Got Me Tangled

Silver Jackson Live at the P-bar with John Dean on drums (He's back) and Nathaniel Bean! GEO and Erin Huff look on. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZplVAJ56K...

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Boycott the RIAA in March

This is necessary! "Alright, we've been following the RIAA's increasingly frequent affronts to privacy and free speech lately, and it's about time we stopped merely bi...

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Its Here!! ‘A Sign Of Life’

Be the first to own a copy! Just $15 (includes shipping) ...

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Music wants to be free

The music giants are trying DRM-free downloads. Lots of smaller labels already sell music that way. Having seen which way the wind is blowing, Mr Jobs now wants to be see...

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28×28 poster challenge

Silver Jackson got in early and was gifted this gem! Check out the challenge and other great works of gig poster art here (also lots of interesting music news etc.!) ...

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LP3’s new album available now

Get 13 Tracks Off LP3's Album right now...right here! Die To Defend It ...

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Strummin Dog Holds It Down Down Under!

Tuesday 30th January 2007 Gisborne Herald Home > Arts/Entertainment Galanin brings blues to benefit gig by Kristine Walsh Saturday, 27 January, 2007 IN Dave Galanin�...

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Belly Meat

Bellymeat plays to a packed house at Seiners - check out the video. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oTfqvkI3mk[/youtube] ...

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Happy Birthday Strummin Dog!

What year was Strummin Dog Born into this world in? Heres a hint: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oTfqvkI3mk[/youtube]...

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LP3 Live and Uncensored.

Day In Day Out, same sh!t same crowd! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn1eCndrQcc[/youtube]...

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Rare SilverJackson footage!

SilverJackson and friends live @ vista del mar. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDfoiwSDOf8[/youtube]...

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