workshops-Skip Healy on flute & Albert Alfonso, lansdale pa

Irish Flute
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late notice i know… Also on the 23rd there’s a concert at the same venue

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Time:
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Lansdale, PA
Street:
136 E. 3rd Street
Phone:
2153680525
Email:
bette@betteconway.com
Description
Spring Hill House presents workshops with Skip Healy on flute and Albert Alfonso on bodhran.

Workshops are $30 each. Please call/email to reserve your spot.

***Don’t forget to bring a tape recorder, pencil/paper, and your questions - they’ll be ready for it! CDs will be available for purchase.

After the workshops Skip and Alfonso will be heading to the Mermaid Inn to join ‘Handy with a Stick’ in hosting the regular Wednesday night session.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Skip Healy is widely regarded as one of the finest American fife and Traditional Irish wooden flute players, makers and educators. He has won numerous championships for solo and quartet American fife playing, and C.C.E. titles for Irish flute and tin whistle. In 1989, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts honored him as “Master Musician for the State of Rhode Island.”
He is Founder and Artistic Director of his own annual wooden flute festival, Wind On The Bay, in his hometown of East Greenwich, RI. He is a composer, arranger, instructor/lecturor, studio musician and performer. Liz Carroll, Lawrence Nugent, Solas, and many others in the U.S., Canada, and Europe have recorded his original flute compositions.

He has performed and recorded with, among others, John Skelton, Grey Larson, Joannie Madden, Aoife Clancey, June McCormack, Seamus O’Kane, Carmel Gunning, Aine Minogue, Johnny Cunningham (RIP), Michael (RIP) and Triona O’Domhnaill, Robbie O’Connell, Mick Moloney, John Doyle, John Williams, Paddy Keenan, Paddy Reynolds (RIP), Kevin Burke, Phillip Donnelly, and Lui Collins. In 2008, Skip had a solo performance at Carnigie Hall.

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Darn. Had I read this earlier I would have called off work to be there. :frowning:

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A quick THANK YOU to Bette for hosting this workshop.

I took Skip’s flute workshop and benefitted greatly. There were only 3 of us in attendance, so lots of attention was paid to our questions, Thanks Skip.. So to the fluters out there, I definitely encourage you to attend a workshop/class with Skip, should the occasion arise. I would say I am of intermediate+ skill level and the technical exercises, ornamentation and stylistic concepts Skip taught and played beautifully, will definitley help take me to the next level of playing.

I’ve seen a lot of discussion on this board about styles of playing, and Skip does an excellent job of addressing how traditional flute playing has evolved over the years as the instruments have improved and the music has found its way around the world and picked up various regional influences. I won’t give any more away, you’ll have to go see for yourself. :slight_smile: Then, as Skip so aptly says, “Go Home and Practice!” (Skip has a wonderful story to tell behind that saying bringing deeper meaning to the phrase).

Don’t forget their concert tonight as well!