About MrBluSkies

Hello!  And THANK YOU so much for visiting my website.  My name is Marc Rhoades, and I have been performing as MrBluSkies since 2000.  I grew up in Reading, Ohio, and then spent 7 years in Columbus, Ohio attending The Ohio State University.  After graduation in 1972, I spent 2 years in the USAF Dental Corps at Webb AFB in Big Spring, Texas, then moved to Alpharetta, Georgia and practiced General Dentistry for the next 40 years.  My wonderful wife Linda, pictured with me above, discovered the beautiful community we know as The Villages.  We purchased a house in the Village of Del Mar in August of 2013, and I retired from dentistry to become a full time Villager on January 15th, 2014.  We  loved  living  in  The  Villages  where  we  enjoyed  over  11  wonderful  years  with  so  many  new  friends.    During  those  years  I  performed  hundreds  of  times  in  The  Villages  with  Villages  music  clubs  and  hundreds  of  more  times  throughout  central  Florida  with  my  solo  MrBluSkies  act.    Oh,  the  fun  and  memories  from  those  years!    But  time  moves  on,  and  we  now  have  four  young  granddaughters in  Georgia  that  we  want  to  be  near,  so  we  are  now  in  the  process  of  relocating  to  the  Sun  City  Peachtree  Del  Webb  community  in  Griffin,  Georgia.    And  yes,  I’m  planning  on  continuing  to  perform  as  MrBluSkies  here  in  Georgia!

My Dad played the ukulele, and he and I started playing together when I was 14 years old.  He taught me many of the sing-a-long songs I still enjoy all these many years later.  After searching for one for many years, I purchased my first  banjo ukulele in 1995, and it has been a passionate hobby of mine ever since.  In 2000, I adopted the name MrBluSkies and discovered how much fun I could have performing sing-a-long gigs for various groups and retirement communities.  Something about songs like "Let Me Call You Sweetheart", "Down By The Old Mill Stream", and "Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue" just put smiles on folk's faces.  I hope I'll see you smiling and singing along with me at a Sing-A-Long gig in the near future.

Still smiling, still strumming, still singing...

MrBluSkies