news

March 2009
Storm Watch now available!

You can purchase Storm Watch
and It's About Time either by buying from us directly (this option saves you and us money!), or through CDBaby, where you will find a list of all the tracks with brief audio clips.

We hope you enjoy our music!

recordings

Storm Watch (2009)
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It's About Time (1999)
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Contact:

Skye
P.O. Box 3995
Eugene, Oregon 97403
(541) 343-7164
jheydon@uoregon.edu

the band

Skye has been together and based in Eugene, Oregon, for over fourteen years. They have performed extensively throughout the Pacific Northwest, gaining a loyal following wherever they appear. While more often taking center stage, in their many years together Skye has also opened for such notable artists as Dougie MacLean, Solas, Natalie MacMaster, and Martin Hayes.



The band presents an exciting blend of vocal and instrumental pieces, many of them traditional, some of them arrangements of contemporary songs by other celtic artists. Still others are newly composed in a traditional style by members of the band. To every piece - whether traditional or newly composed - Skye imparts a fresh feel with imaginative, intricate, and energetic instrumental arrangements and compelling vocal harmonies.

current members

Michael Bardossi (fiddle) 
Raised in the wilds of East coast suburbia, Michael Bardossi immigrated to Oregon where he married Julia in 1989 and met Lexy shortly thereafter. Skye grew out of a shared love of folk idioms and Michael's life-long ramble through the halls of classical, jazz, old-time, and Celtic.  He and Glen share a mischievous impulse, nicely balanced by the ladies. Michael composes much of the new music performed by the band.

Julia Heydon (fiddle, vocals, guitar, recorder)
Julia Heydon's early years were filled with the music of Bach, Beethoven, and the Byrds.  In college she discovered a passion for Renaissance polyphony, which eventually led to a doctorate in music history.  A chance encounter with Irish traditional music while performing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the 1980s led to the pursuit of Irish fiddle and Celtic folk songs.  These influences converge to help give Skye's complex arrangements a sophistication which speaks to a wide range of listeners. 

Glen Waddell (voice, guitar, octave mandolin, whistle, low whistle, Scottish small pipes, bass, keyboards)
Glen grew up with music in the church and at home, learning the culture of traditional music from his parents who immigrated to Canada from Scotland.  As a multi-instrumentalist with eclectic tastes and wide-ranging interests, his influences are many and varied.  He can often be found playing in churches on Sundays and in pubs during the week. 

Lexy Wellman (vocals, bodhran, doumbec, djembe, guitar)
Lexy Wellman's life-long love of communication through song began with the gift of a guitar from her parents on her 16th birthday. A trip to Limerick with a concert choir in 1971 marked the beginning of her infatuation with  the Emerald Isle.  On one of her three subsequent trips to the southwest of Ireland she encountered the bodhran you hear on this album.  Lexy has been performing since the late 1970s as a soloist and in collaboration with others.  In 1990 she joined Skye, and found a camaraderie and level of musicianship that she hopes will continue to provide inspiration for many years to come.