Mykl Perkins

Mykl started as a guitarist in high school in 1983 playing in various bands around his hometown, providing music and lyrics to these projects. It was shortly after high school that Mykl started singing so that he could present his songs in his own way.

Having grown up in the Cleveland, Ohio area, Mykl migrated to Boulder, Colorado in 1989 where he spent much of that time creating unique music, inventing nontraditional techniques of presenting his music and traveling across the country seeking adventures that would inspire and grow his music. Mykl has since moved with his family to Springfield, Missouri in August 2003.

After seeing Tabla Drumming Master Zakir Hussein perform in Boulder in 1997, Mykl was inspired to introduce the hand drums to the guitar. It was a grand union. Mykl incorporates a few techniques of playing the guitar and hand drums (and sometimes singing too) at the same time that provides a very rythmic element to an otherwise acoustic singer/songwriter type format of music.

Mykl recorded his debut CD “Welcome To My World” during the spring months of 2000 and upon picking up the finished product embarked on his “Welcome To My World Tour 2000” taking him throughout the Midwest, New England and the East Coast from late April through late August of that year.

Performing mostly original music, Mykl is also known by his fans for playing personalized renditions of some rather obscure and more popular cover songs ranging from Pink Floyd to Pearl Jam and from Crosby, Stills and Nash to The Cranberries. Mykl has over 20 years experience performing live shows.

Although the acoustic guitar tends to be Mykl’s first choice, he is equally accomplished on the electric. He also plays the bass and the drums and has been known to bring out some of these other instruments during a show to spice things up a bit. Mykl has enough original material to fill an entire evening and over 100 cover songs to choose from to mix things up.

Sometimes described as “Speed Folk” or “Enthusiastic Acoustic” Mykl is known as a high energy performer who adds a bit of visual fun to the audio equation.

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Mykl Perkins is 40 and has a very supportive wife and 2 children. Mykl grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Boulder, Colorado at 22, then Springfield area at 36. Mykl is very politically aware and motivated and has been a political and social reform activist for most of his adult life, including a run for The Colorado State House in 1998.

Most of Mykl's songs are about the people that he has encountered over the years. The people that Mykl has known have had a pronounced influence on his life and his music. When you collect friends, you get a lot of experiences to draw from.

READ WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:

"He is the neatest guitar player in Boulder." Dennis, a barista at the Penny Lane Coffee Shop in Boulder, Colorado.

"He is a real treat. He plays normally, sings, and also plays his guitar like it was a dulcimer and even gets some 'drum noises' from it along the way. I hope you get a chance to see him." Steve Bingham, owner/proprietor of Emack & Bolio’s Ice Cream Shop & Café in Springfield, Missouri.

"If that’s your self portrait then you are a real beautiful man." Patron and audience member at Emack & Bolio’s in reference to the Mykl's original insrtumental composition "Sound Painting, A Musical Self Portrait".

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