For immediate release
June 6, 2008
Contact: Bonnie MacPherson, director of public relations
Okemo Mountain Resort | 77 Okemo Ridge Road | Ludlow, VT 05149
802-228-1947 | bmacpherson@okemo.com
JACKSON GORE OUTDOOR MUSIC SERIES PRESENTS
SKYLA BURRELL BLUES BAND JUNE 13
LUDLOW, Vt. – The Jackson Gore Outdoor Music Series continues Friday, June 13, with a free concert featuring the Skyla Burrell Blues Band.
A hard working, full time, traveling blues band The Skyla Burrell Blues Band plays more than 200 shows a year. With co-founder Mark Tomlinson on lead guitar and Skyla Burrell on vocals and lead guitar, the band's live show consists of original high energy electric blues.
Skyla Burrell was born in LA and had a guitar in her hands by the age of 10. She formed her first band at the age of 13, and by 19 was doing session work at local recording studios in exchange for recording her original material. In 1994 Skyla moved to the East Coast and continued working as a musician until meeting Mark and forming the SBBB in 2003.
Mark Tomlinson has been in the Blues business for over 20 years. By the age of 21, Mark had scored gigs playing drums with John Lee Hooker and Bo Diddley. After 20 years of beating the skins, Mark dropped the sticks and picked up the picks. Mark’s guitar style is “nothin’ but the Blues,” from John Lee Hooker to Muddy Waters to Jimmy Vaughan.
For more information about the band, or to listen to a sampling their music, visit http://www.skylaburrell.com.
On Friday nights throughout the summer season, the lawn in the courtyard at Okemo’s Jackson Gore Inn will be transformed into an outdoor concert venue featuring renowned local and regional entertainers. Admission to the Jackson Gore Outdoor Music Series is free (excluding the June 27 performance of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra). The grounds open at 5 p.m. and concerts are slated to run from 6 to 9 p.m. Families are welcome and all attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or picnic blankets. Summertime barbecue favorites and refreshments will be available each week and concert-goers may also dine at Jackson Gore’s Coleman Brook Tavern. Okemo’s Jackson Gore Outdoor Music Series is sponsored by Pepsi, 101.5 The Fox, Oldies 104.5, Q106, and The Hatchery.
Following the Skyla Burrell Blues Band, the summer lineup for the Jackson Gore Outdoor Music Series includes, Chris Kleeman, June 20; The Vermont Symphony Orchestra, June 27; Fry Daddy, July 4; Revision, July 11; The Gully Boys, July 18; Adam Payne and 2Adam12, July 25; The Few, Aug. 1; Spiritual Rez, Aug. 8; Michael Cleary Band, Aug. 15; Twiddle, Aug. 22; Dr. Burma, Aug. 29.
For more information, please visit www.okemo.com or call 802-228-1600. For dinner reservations at Coleman Brook Tavern, call 802-228-1435.
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Visit okemo.com for more, or call 1-800-78-OKEMO.