Sky Powers
Spring Valley Ca
Host of Pacifically Bluegrass
Saturdays 1pm to 3pm est

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Born and raised in California. I have also been a resident of New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. My passion has become bluegrass music and also in playing the mandolin. At an early age I had an attraction and a very great appreciation of bluegrass music and traditional mountain music, and that love has deepened through the years. It seems very much like there is a renaissance in bluegrass music.

I have lived a very rural lifestyle for 20 years from 1975-1995 in which I came to discover and explore acoustic music and the high lonesome sound of Bluegrass. In 1975, I moved to the alpine town of Idyllwild in the San Jacinto Mountains of southern California. I bought my first mandolin and I began the journey of learning to play and create music. I entered the local "Idyllwild Bluegrass Festival" and took Second place in the Mandolin competition. In 1980, I moved to the coastal mountains of Mendocino County to fulfill a dream of homesteading on a 40 acre parcel. While living the rural lifestyle music played in big role in our lives. In the evenings when all the work was finished we gathered to play music....I took a hiatus from playing mandolin from 1989-2005. I was busy in medical school in New Mexico studying Traditional Chinese Medicine. I am a Clinical Herbalist and also I am licensed in Oriental Bodywork. I never ceased listening to Bluegrass and never lost my deep appreciation of the music. In 2005, I finally decided that it was time that I finally take up making music on the mandolin.  

For the last 10 years I have worked in the Healthcare field, first, in the Emergency Room as an ER Tech/Medical Assistant and presently I work in the Telemetry Unit in a large hospital as a Unit Assistant. For over six months I have been dealing with a work-related disability. Of course this has allowed me more time to enjoy and explore bluegrass music and in deepening my skills on the mandolin.