Mythbusting Leeds rock and pop band Sky Fallers celebrate their 10th anniversary with a special concert on Tuesday (17 June 2025) at Headrow House, as part of Leeds Learning Disability Week.
Sky Fallers feature highly talented learning disabled singers and musicians. Playing classic songs, they achieve great performance standards, break stereotypes and give audiences a lively show.
Sky Fallers were founded in 2015 through Aspire CBS, Leeds biggest care provider for adults with learning disabilities. Aspire realised that amongst the learning disability com-munity were numerous individuals with exceptional musical talent and that it would be ex-citing to showcase those abilities, creating a band they could push to excellence.
Auditions were held and a core band of six members came together who set to work in rehearsal to play a repertoire of popular music on drums, keyboards, guitar, accordion, bass and vocalists.
Over the years some of the most talented learning disabled performers in Leeds have become members of the band.
They have performed on big stages at prestigious events, weekend festivals, open air concerts, clubs, pubs and community centres.
They average around 25 engagements a year. The learning disabled community find such inspiration in seeing people like themselves excel in Sky Fallers.
Sky Fallers also provide audience interaction for members of the community, making each performance a special experience and truly one of a kind.
The current band lineup features: Des Thompson (vocals, drums and percussion) Jenni Robinson (vocals and ukulele) Megan Nunns (vocals, bass and keyboard) Steven Joynson (MC, vocals and keyboard). Two Aspire staff, bring more instrumentation and musical direction.
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