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  Coming up for Air

  It's not so much that we've disappeared - it's that after we get done with the festival, we take a bit of a sabbatical.  If you haven't noticed, we placed four digital r...

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  Home Skillet Fest ‘08 - Saturday

  The build up to Saturday was big, in both a perspective of what we would have to deliver for the audience to have a good time and what we as a label were betting. Here's ...

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  Home Skillet Fest ‘08 - Friday

  When pairing up an organization that has a history of nearly a hundred years with a genre that has been around for thirty years, one must tread carefully. The Sitka Moose...

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  Home Skillet Fest ‘08 - Thursday

  There is always a moment before the festival starts, specifically on the first day, that you wonder if anyone will show up.  I remember having the same feeling the first...

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  Home Skillet Festival is moments away

  Between all of the radio shows and the hosting of the artist, we have managed to get a few things moving forward.  Our breath was collectively held waiting for our appar...

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  Home Skillet Festival is About Here

  It has been a trying last few weeks for the Home Skillet Records crew.  Between tweaking the schedule to accommodate for artists changing availabilities, the media bli...

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  Langhorne Slim Cancelled

  Yesterday we at HomeSkillet Records were given the news that Langhorne Slim was backing out of the show to do something...

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  Langhorne Slim, a pre-lude

  Langhorne Slim first came across our radar a year ago, shortly after last year's HomeSkillet Fest. Luke Temple was moving...

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  HomeSkillet Festival, Tickets & Info

  I love it, it's near and we are turning our gears to make this festival as memorable as the last. If you don't remember much that's ok, we will be postin...

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  Pirates Paying People

  Argghhhhh, piratey this and that.  You know those pirates, they steal, horde, and kill causing industries to die. Or maybe they just cause industries to adapt.  Or evol...

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  XTRA-Tuffs and HomeSkillet Festival 2007

  Can you believe it's Friday and May at the same time?  Neither can we.  In celebration of this monumental event, we wanted to put up a little bit of HomeSkillet Festiva...

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  Last.fm and Streaming Music

  Many of you have probably heard of Last.fm, this is for those who haven't.  Last.fm is a piece of...

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  Oh no they didn’t, MUXTAPE

  Remember back in the day when making Mixtapes for friends was one of the primary vehicles for getting new music and romancing somebody?  I sort of felt at a loss as tape...

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  HomeSkillet Records Version 4.0

  Today we launch the fourth iteration of the HomeSkillet Records website. Which begs the question, why launch a new website when the last one was so perfect?  Aside from ...

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  Happy Holidays

  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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