America’s Got Talent 2010: Blue Sky Canopy

Blue Sky Canopy is a band based out of Minneapolis, MN. According to their Facebook Page, the band consists of four friends:
– Jamison Murphy: Lead Vocals and Piano
– Brian Johnson: Guitar and Vocals
– Matt Peterson: Bass and Vocals
– Grant Gibeau: Drums

However, only Jamison and Brian were in attendance at the Chicago auditions which makes one wonder, what happened to the other half of the band? In any case, these two handsome college students go to separate universities and create their music with one another via the internet (what a way to use technology). They have a couple of LPs (self-titled and Real) that are available on Amazon.com and iTunes, and when they have free time it is used primarily to work on their music together (versus via the Internet).

The Fray – You Found Me (Cover)

So when these two friends came to Chicago for the AGT auditions they sang a known cover that the audience loved and enjoyed. In fact the audience loved it so much that they cheered, applauded, danced in the rows from the moment they started singing and well after they were done with their piece. The audience applause was so deafening that the judges were unable to listen to the majority of the act. However, what little that Piers and Sharon were able to hear seemed to indicate that Jamison was clearly the stronger of the two and in order for him to move on he would have to drop his friend along the way.

The audience nor Jamison – needless to say – did not agree with this assessment. Howie even said that it was difficult to hear them over the audience noise. For a long while, Piers and Sharon tried to convince Jamison that the best thing for him right now to continue growing as an artist is to drop his friend and go out as a solo act, because in him they saw a star.

Jamison, loyalty taking over, insisted that wherever he goes, his friend Brian will go with. He even tried to negotiate with the judges that he’ll go solo as long as he could take Brian with him. As it appears, Jamison seemed a bit stage shy or nervous, but when he has his friend on stage with him, he’ll be alright. Jamison even said that Brian’s harmonies are “out of this world”. It would appear that Jamison wanted the judges to give his friend a fair shake in the close confines of Las Vegas, to hear them without the noise and distractions of the audience before making a final decision on them.

He was stubborn but adamant and willing to turn down a chance to move on to Vegas if it meant leaving his friend behind. Howie said that he doesn’t know what Brian is capable of, but basing off of comments from Piers and Sharon he has decided that they should NOT go to Vegas. Next up Piers… Piers thought about it for a long while, throughout all this the audience chanting Vegas, Vegas, Vegas. And finally declared that it didn’t hurt Ringo Starr to be with the Beatles, so it’s not going to hurt Jamison to have Brian with him. A split decision! Last was Sharon… who stared at Jamison, continuously saying that he was being stubborn and that stubbornness could eventually hurt him in the end… but she also said that it is that stubbornness that could help him too.

So which side would Sharon choose? Would she choose to side with her first instinct and not send them on to Vegas? Or would she give Brian the second chance and send them through?

Either way you can keep up with them on their website: BlueSkyCanopy.com and show your support on their Facebook Page. For those of you that prefer MySpace over Facebook, they have a MySpace page with some of the their music available to listen to or even keep up with their tweets on Twitter!

They also have a couple of YouTube channels here and here for you to enjoy as we all wait for the premiere of America’s Got Talent Season 5.