Michael Skinkus

Michael Skinkus is less popular towards the music globe at large, however in New Orleans he’s a first-call participant. A multi-disciplinary percussionist, he’s comfortable being associated with literally almost any American root base and rock and roll music. Skinkus may very own a name hard to pronounce (or hear), but his shows are unforgettable, playing Latin hands and stay drums, mainly congas, and small instruments of an amazing array. Delivered in Philadelphia, PA and getting started being a guitarist, he shifted to the Crescent Town to review at Tulane College or university in 1987. Earning a B.A. in Latin American Research and an M.A. in Ethnomusicology, he quickly folded in to the melting container of the neighborhood modern music picture. Subsequent excursions to Puerto Rico, Haiti and Cuba furthered his knowledge of cultural rhythms, a lot an integral part of jazz, globe and various other musics. Spreading the term further, Skinkus can be an adjunct teacher at Delgado College or university, and shows privately. Credits being a sideman among the countless groups he spent some time working with consist of stints with Dr. John, Joe Krown, Michael Ray & the Cosmic Krewe, Charles Neville, Wayne Maureau, ¡Cubanismo!, Smilin’ Myron, Irma Thomas, Judith Owen, Johnny Adams as well as the Radiators.