1. Patrick Sky was of Irish and Native American ancestry, and played Irish traditional music and uilleann pipes in the later part of his career.
12 Facts About Patrick Sky
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Patrick Sky grew up near the Lafourche Swamps of Louisiana, where he learned guitar, banjo, and harmonica.
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Patrick Sky moved to New York City after military service in the early 1960s, and began playing traditional folk songs in clubs before starting to write his own material.
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Patrick Sky played with many of the leading performers of the period, particularly Buffy Sainte-Marie, Eric Andersen and the blues singer Mississippi John Hurt.
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Patrick Sky had honed his politically charged satire in earlier albums, but Songs That Made America Famous raised the stakes.
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Patrick Sky gradually moved into the field of Irish traditional music, producing artists, and founding Green Linnet Records in 1973.
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Patrick Sky was recognised as an expert in building and playing the Irish uilleann pipes, often performing with his wife, Cathy.
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Patrick Sky edited a reissued version of the important 19th century dance tune book Ryan's Mammoth Collection in 1995.
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Patrick Sky released his final full-length studio album, Through a Window, in 1985.
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Patrick Sky died on May 26,2021, while in hospice care in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Patrick Sky was 80, and suffered from prostate cancer and bone cancer prior to his death.
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Patrick Sky had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2017.