2 time CPMA nominee
6 full length CD releases ALL original material
Runner up, Billboard Song Contest (Bad Dream)
Multiple songs featured on CBS television shows (The Bridge and DaVinci’s Inquest)
The Skyla Burrell Band is a full time, hardworking traveling blues band, known for their high-energy electric blues.
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Skyla Burrell was born in Los Angeles and raised in Orange County, California. Skyla formed her first band at the age of 13 and has been a working musician ever since. Skyla played with several bands as a teenager and young adult, working her way up and down Southern California. She relocated to the East Coast in her early 20's where she continued learning and growing from her musical experiences and eventually co-forming the Skyla Burrell Band. In addition to her singing, writing and guitar duties, Skyla also plays the piano.
Onstage and on record, they play 100%
original material — singer/guitarist Skyla Burrell and co-founder/guitarist Mark Tomlinson share songwriting credits.
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They're currently touring in support of their 2023 CD, "Broken 45s."
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TESTIMONIALS
"Skyla has one of those perfect, whisky-soaked-with-honey voices that is full of the passion and conviction that it takes to be a great blueswoman."
NASHVILLE BLUES SOCIETY
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"Burrell and her three cohorts find virtue in professionalism. They deliver unpretentious, self described "Hard Drivin' Blues" in which strength and understatement unite in an easy, fluid balance without sucking up to rock."
DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE
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"Skyla has earned a reputation as one of the hardest working women in the Blues. She leads her talented band through all original high-energy offerings of Blues that range from jumping, jazzy and swinging to rockin' Memphis soul and smoldering straight-up Chicago. Through it all her voice runs up and down your spine while she wails away on her guitar and your feet just can't be still."
SUNCOAST BLUES SOCIETY
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"One of the most smokin' blues bands in the US"
DIGITAL CAFE TOUR
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"On stage, she's equal parts siren, blues goddess and ring mistress"​
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THE DAILY TIMES
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"The Skyla Burrell Band is tight. They don’t just lay it down; they knock it down and kick it. It’s blues, it’s rock, it’s swinging good time Saturday night fist fight low down hoe down get down and boogie music. They fill the songs with hot licks, sweet tones, impassioned vocals, and undeniable spirit."
BLUES BISCUITS
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"Skyla Burrell and Mark Tomlinson's set for Lil' Ed was the most incendiary and pulse pounding opening sets I've ever heard."
TOM CULLEN, PRESIDENT BUCKS COUNTY BLUES SOCIETY