The Facebook page Southern Folklife Collection has shared this post from Eric Andersen:

"Well, today's a big, big sad day for me personally and all us songwriter music lovers. The dark? Well, he finally got there and the "yet" was removed early this morning in a hospice in Ashville, North Carolina. Patrick Sky the songwriter, singer, and Celtic Uilleann bag pipe luthier and builder has left this world into the light but never for good. Songs like spirits always remain behind. With his loving novelist and musician wife Cathy and son Liam keeping tight grips on his hand these past weeks, it finally slipped free, and the angels carried Pat Sky away.

I recorded (as many others did) his great song "Many a Mile" and in the 60's Village he and Buffy Ste. Marie and Peter LaFarge (Ira Hayes) were close friends in more ways than one. They all shared Native American descent. Pat's was Cherokee from Georgia. He once fashioned a beautiful Indian mouth bow for Buffy which she still plays.

Pat was close friends to the great Dave Van Ronk also known as the mayor of McDougal Street. They were musical drinking pals at the Kettle of Fish and Pat had always had a very droll, barbed sense of humor. But he couldn't take the business hassles of the music scene.

Last time we were together was when we did a small concert together at a university and were interviewed by Jeff Place from the Smithsonian Institute. Afterwards, we retired to Pat and Cathy's comfy mobile home and sat in the dark drinking beers wondering what happened with who and where did so and so go? Am still planning to record your great song "Nectar of God. Anyway, sending you big love Patrick Sky on your journey home. Don't forget us."