Robert Johnson, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, J.S. Bach, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Willie Dixon, Charles Mingus, Neil Young, Muddy Waters, Ron Carter, Carlos Santana, Stevie Wonder ... not to mention all the wonderful Winnipeg musicians and bands I have played with and known over the years, including Buick 6, Artificial Joy, Volume, Home Cooked Meals, Hot Rollerz, New Meanies, Motel 75, Scott Nolan Band, Twilight Hotel, etc. etc. etc.
Sky Onosson has been a musician since the age of five, starting ..boards and then moving on to bass, guitar, saxophone, and trying his hand at pretty much anything he could put his hands on.
Sky is probably best known as a founding member of Winnipeg's the New Meanies, who have released four albums since forming around 1990, including the Virgin Records release "Three Seeds". As a member of the band, Sky has performed on the same stage as Deep Purple, The Dave Matthews Band, Alice Cooper, Paul Rodgers (of Queen and Bad Company) and many, many other acts, at venues all over North America.
As a sideman and session musician, Sky has played and recorded with Twilight Hotel, Scott Nolan, Romi Mayes, and a whole host of notable roots/folk/blues acts from Winnipeg. Sky has also been a member of such diverse acts as the rootsy Motel 75 (along with singer/songwriters Scott Nolan and Dan Frechette and guitarist Grant Siemens, of the Corb Lund Band), the punk-influenced Hot Rollerz (featuring Joanne Rodriguez of American Flamewhip and the Vagiants), and the aggressive and experimental band Volume, among others.
Currently, Sky is focusing on developing his solo work. He has released a number of solo albums over the past decade and a half, including the album Mute which was made available for free download over the internet. He has been performing for a couple of years with Kathryn Yee (bass) and Alf Catolico (drums) backing him up as the Skybirds. His most recent work is the album Odd End, which is available in streaming audio at http://reverbnation.com/skyonosson and at http://onosson.com.
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*Allo Sky! I invite you to check out my solo project, my new album « L’arbre aux parfums » is now released. To hear exerts and adventure in my fragile garden, please feel free: www. myspace. com/caracolmusique Many thanks ! CARACOL*
Thanks for the inspiration....look out for our Debut Album "Searchin' For A River" October 2008. Peace and Blues to Ya'll. see you soon we need to do another Dusty Sky night.
Happy Holidays Sky! Hope it's not too cold up there. We are off to Yosemite tomorrow, hope to catch some snow (I know, I know, you might think we are crazy, but hey--we ARE from Southern California after all). By-the-way, I really enjoyed playing with you when we were up there. Hopefully we'll be able to do that again soon. Later--
Looking for and hearing forwardto your show at the pyramid.....hope you are well...p.s. would you like to open for the dusty roads at shannon's on december 7th?....possibly more dates i'll give yousome tentatives....your friend Dusty
hey skybird i'm in chiapas right now. just visited the mayan city of palenque today, tomorrow i'm off to san cristobal de las casas. mexico is great. specially the food and music. see you when i get back, it's jazzfest, hooray! you playin?
i spy on your profile!!
oh yes i do!! i also
download songs from your
profile!! hope you don't
mind?! ;) ha-ha... i'm so
funny. i'm gonna go now
and see how things are
going on facebook. maybe
i'll even send you a poke?!
later bro...
....this may be the first and Beginning of the last SHOW that WINNIPEG and it's Community will see of the Most Blatant truthful AUDACIOUS Dustin Harder.....Featuring the Dusty Roads Band....With Jeremy Rusu, Eric Goodmundson,,,,,And MR> Dave Landreth holdin the fort...............................We are looking forward to sharing our thoughts with....our HOME TOWN WOLSELEY>>>>>......................Friday April............27TH..........Later But Sooner Is Always Better..........Dusty Rene Antoine Harder.......Teh Least You Could do is support the influences that have influenced me...and bring.......a friend that is ignorant to The Dusty Roads experince this special evening/;///////;/////////??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? I love you SKY
we're in nashville right now, we're meeting Colin Linden tomorrow. Pretty excited.
We've got a bunch of new tunes to play at times later this month. take care papa
Thanks for your friendship and bravo for the music! We plan to tour most of this year and hope we meet some day! All the best of 007 to you and yours and to all your friends here. Enjoy yourselves and please stay in touch!
I knew you would remember me, eventually. Mississippi hey? That would be SWEET! What age are your children? Mine are 3 & 5-lets have a playdate. We have loads of room and the door is always open to old friends.
Sure we know each other! Think 10-12 years ago, Saskatoon...see if my photos help. Happy to see you have a such a lovely family and continue to make fine sounds!
Come check out Joel Fafard at The Folk Exchange this Friday night, January 2. He is that rare breed of instrumentalist: the kind whose appeal reaches far beyond the realm of serious guitar enthusiasts. We really think you'll like him. For more info or to buy tix call the Folk Fest Music Store at 231-1377. Love, Folk Fest
