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Subject: Skip Healy in a House Concert - October 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Skip Healy will be performing at a house concert in Seattle on Friday night, October 19, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. Skip is known as one of America’s finest wooden flute and fife players and has won honors worldwide. He is also the president of The Healy Flute Company, makers of fine wooden flutes, piccolos and fifes. See below for more on Skip.
The concert will be at 3616 Burke Ave N in Seattle. Admission is $18.00 at the door.
Skip, a master teacher, will also be conducting flute two-hour clinics on Saturday, October 20th at the same address in Seattle. The beginning/novice clinic will be from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. and will cover breathing, posture, tunes and how to play them, stories, history and a joke or two. The intermediate/advanced clinic will be from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. and will cover advanced techniques and style. Clinics are $40 each.
Individual private lessions are also available for $50 per hour.
For more information, call (206) 633-3577 or email kgandll@juno.com. .
I will be sending out reminders about two weeks before the event, then again about one week before the event. If you wish to be removed from this list and not be reminded of this event, please drop me an email.
Skip Healy
At the age of eight, Skip Healy started to learn to play the fife with the Kentish Guards Fife & Drum Corps in his hometown of East Greenwich, Rhode Island. He is widely regarded as one of America’s finest fife and wooden flute players. His concerts throughout North America and Europe have left audiences spellbound, and his playing style, at once traditional and contemporary, breathes new life into a wide repertoire of tunes.
Wherever he plays Skip generates excitement. Whether at the Plough and Stars or Irelands 32 in San Francisco CA., the Town Crier or the Blarney Star in New York city, or at festivals such as the Snug Harbor Irish Music Festival (Staten Island, NY), Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival (Mystic, CT), the Festival of Pipers (Quebec City, Canada), the 700 year old Pfyffer Daj (Ribeauville, France), or at his home in Rosegreen, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, the music flows when Healy is in the room.
Skip has been successful in music competitions as well as on the concert stage. In 1980 he won both the Connecticut State and the Northeastern States Championships for solo fife playing. Concentrating on traditional Irish music, he also won numerous C.C.E. North American titles. In 1989, his home state honored him with the title of “Master Musician for the State of Rhode Island.”
Collaborations & Teaching
Skip then became actively involved with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (R.I.S.C.A.) Folk Arts Apprenticeship program, where he received several state grants to teach fife playing to local residents. A concert tour then led him to Basel, Switzerland, where he taught American fife and Irish flute for nearly a decade to scores of Swiss musicians. His reputation for unique teaching styles and theories (private, group, and master class settings) has also grown over the last 20 years. Now a frequent lecturer at the university level, Healy also hosts an annual wooden flute festival called Wind On The Bay in his hometown of East Greenwich, RI.
Returning home, his skills as a composer, arranger, and studio musician became even more in demand. Great Irish musicians including fiddler Liz Carroll and Lawrence Nugent, as well as the group Solas, have recorded Skip’s flute compositions. He has performed and recorded with an all-star selection of traditional musicians including, Aine Minogue, Flynn Cohen, Johnny Cunningham (RIP), Michael and Triona O’Domhnaill, Robbie O’Connell, Mick Moloney, John Doyle, John Williams, Paddy Keenan, Paddy Reynolds, Kevin Burke, Phillip Donnelly, Lui Collins, Rhode Island-based band Pendragon, and many others.
The Healy Flute Company
Skip established the Healy Fife and Flute Company in East Greenwich, Rhode Island in 1993. He specializes in the designing and building of a wide variety of wooden flutes, fifes, and piccolos. Beautifully finished and trimmed with sterling silver, Skip has supplied these fine instruments to musicians all over the world.