april moore skelton

“I remember my mother helping me get a weekly 3-hour-long gig at age 15 at a restaurant that paid really well,” says Leralynn of Birds & Wire. “She told the booking guy that I was 21, and that I had just recorded an album with some bigwigs in Nashville. He totally bought it. He even poured me a massive margarita at the audition.” Leralynn - who goes by one name - was lucky; her mother and father, who both played guitar, encouraged her to pursue music as a vocation. But Leralynn, who will be performing with her band Birds & Wire at a benefit show Saturday for Girls’ Rock Camp-ATHENS, knows not everyone is so accepting of a girl’s aspirations to rock. …