“Dying Love" comes from the 4 song singer/songwriter EP "Poems" with compositions focusing on tense topics. This focuses on getting out of toxic relationships, whether that's with friends or lovers.

Dying Love

“Teen Arthritis" comes from the 4 song singer/songwriter EP "Poems" with compositions focusing on tense topics. This focuses on how joint stiffness is becoming more normal for all ages due to humanity's increased use of technology for their personal and professional lives.

Teen Arthritis

“Young Divorce" comes from the 4 song singer/songwriter EP "Poems" with compositions focusing on tense topics. This focuses on divorce rates increasing in the United States, particularly in the Millennial generation, and how it's hard to understand lifelong commitment when you're young.

Young Divorce

“Gunning Innocence" comes from the 4 song singer/songwriter EP "Poems" with compositions focusing on tense topics. This focuses on school shootings, how they're continuing to rise in the United States, and why it's easier to get distracted from them than pay attention and take actions towards them.

Gunning Innocence

“We Press Play Release 2” is the third album from musicbyskippy, Luke "Skippy" Harbur's music project. Returning to electronic dance music roots featured in "we press play" (2022), this music focuses on dance beats, encouraging movement to run wild in listeners and audiences alike.

Live show experiences are immersive, with musicbyskippy wearing a custom-made helmet, performing artists popping up in the crowd, and some unreleased songs that can only be heard in-person. Album and show influences include KAYTRANADA, Stromae, & Glass Animals.

Finale?

Glitch

Layer Up

Choose Kindness

Five

Back On Track

Creative producer and entertainer Luke "Skippy" Harbur is a vivacious performer known for his cross-pollinated brand of alternative music touching on hip hop, Broadway, EDM, and singer-songwriter influences. Like a theater company curating theater seasons, his trailblazing project musicbyskippy features different live experiences based on different genres in his discography, garnering community (nominated “Best Musician” by The Pitch Kansas City magazine, 2023), state (selected 1 of 4 artists for “Featured Artist Program” by the Missouri Arts Council) , and national awards (winner of “Staff Pick” Award by Minnesota Fringe, 4 of 101 shows selected).

The Overland Park, Kansas native is based out of Kansas City, Missouri, constantly developing skills in beatboxing, singing, beat production, rapping, & keyboard playing to express his core mission: music and live performances should be safe havens for everyone to express their authenticity. Since November 2021 he’s written, produced, and published over 40 songs, created 6 original productions, and exceeded 50,000 total music streams.
 
Each opportunity to perform is rooted in a deeper story. At 5 months he was diagnosed with biliary atresia, a rare liver disease. 6 months later he received a life-saving liver transplant from an 8-year-old boy named Aaron Drake, who passed away while on a camping trip with his family at The Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. Harbur uses his  second chance to make performances a testament to sharing his life and near-death experiences, and through his growing discography and show schedule, he hopes you find music and a live experience you love.

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