Jimmy Skiff

Jim Skiff is an award-winning composer, actor, playwright and recording artist. Jim was a founding member of the Grammy nominated LA Jazz Choir. His first album, Flower and Sword, was engineered and produced by Grammy Winner Dave Moulton for Icarus Records in 1979. He has since released 5 additional albums, and his plays have been seen by half a million theatre goers throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region, and featured at First Night Pittsburgh, The Buhl Planetarium, The Carnegie Science Center and Phipps Conservatory. Jim recently published a collection of 132 poems, Rooted:Poems to Inspire, Heal and Empower, which is available on Amazon Books. Jim hosts a weekly open mic at Antonio's Pizzeria in the Brookline neighborhood of Pittsburgh and co-hosts Firepitt, a podcast dedicated to the music of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, where he currently resides.