Skip Healy Flute Seminar

Irish Flute
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Wind On The Bay Hosts Four-week Seminar Series in Irish Flute During
February

Wind On The Bay (http://www.windonthebay.com/) will offer a 4-week
class in
Irish flute for advanced beginners (students who have some basic
experience
and ability to play and know at least 5 or 6 basic Irish tunes) with
instructor Skip Healy at the Healy Flute Company Workshop, 1776
Revolution
St., East Greenwich, RI, on Thursdays beginning Feb. 5 through Feb. 26,
from
7-9 PM. Flutes can be metal or wooden. Pencils, notepads, tape
recorders,
digital cameras are welcome.

Course fee is $200. Class size will be limited to 15 students; a
minimum of
6 is needed for the class to run. Students must pay in full at the
first
class or before. Cash or check only; no credit cards. Checks should be
made
payable to Skip Healy.

For class reservation or more information, call 401-885-2502 or email
skip@skiphealy.com.

INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Skip Healy started to play music at the age of eight, learning to play
fife
with
the Kentish Guards Fife & Drum Corps in his hometown of East Greenwich,
Rhode Island. Now at the age of 45 he is widely regarded as one of
America’s
finest fife and Irish flute players. In 1989, his home state honored
him
with the title of “Master Musician for the state of Rhode Island”. As
of
January 2000, Skip’s recordings have been added to Ireland’s
Traditional
Music Archive in Dublin. He has taught individual and group lessons
across
the U.S. and Europe for 25 years.

Skip established the Healy Fife and Flute Company
(http://www.skiphealy.com/) in East Greenwich, Rhode Island in 1993. He
specializes in the designing and building of a wide variety of wooden
fifes,
flutes, and piccolos. In 2001, he founded Wind On The Bay East Coast
Flute
Symposium to help musicians access high-quality training on flute and
fife.

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Wow Brad, four weeks? Is this every night or just on weekends?

If y’all ever get sick of Rhode Island winters, feel free to have a “Wind on the Gulf” down here in the South. I’d even drive over to Andra’s neck of the woods.

Eddie

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I think it’s one night or so a week (don’t quote me yet) I’ll have to check with Skip. I sure wouldn’t mind a corona on the beach right about now B)

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This looks awesome . . . very, very tempting. But with a new Copley coming and IRiver mp3 recorder for tune grabbing this is getting to be an expensive hobby :slight_smile: I did get thumbs up from the wife for Wind on the Bay next fall though :slight_smile: I better start busking and hope passersby will take pity on me.

Alan

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Hi all,

Just to clear up any confusion, the classes will take place on Thursday nights only for four consecutive weeks starting on Feb. 5. Classes will run from 7-9 pm.

If you have questions about what will be covered in the classes, then email skip at skip@skiphealy.com .

Cheers,
John