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The Skyla Burrell Blues Band is a hard working full time traveling blues band playing local, regional, national and international venues. The band averages 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 all original high energy electric blues.


     

Skyla Burrell
Lead Guitar/Lead Vocals

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, working her way up and down Southern California. At 18 she recorded her first original demo with some help from Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - she also later recorded backing vocals for Mike Campbell's first solo album) and Jerry Swallow (Tanya Tucker).  Later that demo was re-mixed by legendary producer Dennis Sands (Whitney Houston).  Skyla also had a brief stint on NBC's hit sitcom Wings and appeared in a Movie of the Week with Charles Bronson before relocating to the East Coast 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 piano and bass.

Mark Tomlinson
Lead Guitar

Mark Tomlinson grew up in Brooklyn and Syracuse NY.  Mark's father played a huge part in shaping his passion for music as he was jazz drummer in NYC (working most notably with Stan Getz, JP Morgan and Kai Winding) and Mark was exposed to a myriad of the hottest musicians coming thru to jam at the house almost daily.  Mark's own music career also began as a drummer, touring with John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, Big Time Sara, Katherine Davis, Bobby Radcliff, Mike Dugan, The King Snakes and Rick Derringer.  After decades as a side man for some of the legends of the blues MT has now stepped out front, playing guitar and writing and arranging songs for the Skyla Burrell Band.

Ezell Jones Jr.
Drums

Ezell Jones Jr. is from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  He has toured with Tino Gonzales, Deborah Coleman and Bobby Parker just to name a few. He lays the foundation down for our sound.  A little known fact about Ezell is that he can be heard on the rap song that basically started it all - Rappers Delight!

Robert Parks
Bass

Rob grew up in the Gettysburg, PA area, and has been continually fueling his passion of being a well-rounded bass player. He played fulltime for the 9th Army Band for three years, and is currently pursuing a degree in Jazz Performance at Temple University.