Song PremierE: Gayle Skidmore’s “The First Flakes Of Snow” Balances Beauty And Tragedy
San Diego-based artist Gayle Skidmore, both a singer/songwriter and classically trained pianist, will be releasing an eleven track album, The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, on April 4, 2025. A neoclassical solo piano album, The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, tells the story of a tragic 19th-century event: the collapse of a railroad bridge in Ashtabula, Ohio, in December 1876. The disaster claimed 92 lives, including that of Gayle Skidmore’s relative, the hymn writer Philip P. Bliss.
-Hannah Means-Shannon, “Wildfire Music + News”, 6 Feb 2025