Coming soon: Skip Healy and Albert Alfonso workshop and concert

The Spring Hill House Concert Series

presents:

Skip Healy and Albert Alfonso

(American fife and Traditional Irish wooden flute, bodhran)

 

When: 

Flute and Bodhran Workshop:  Wednesday, July 22th, 2009, at 6-8pm,

then come join “Handy with a Stick” at 9 p.m. in leading a session at the Mermaid Inn, Germantown Pike, Chestnut Hill.

 

Concert:  Thursday July 23, 2009 at 8 pm

 

Where: Both the workshop and concert will take place at:

136 E. 3^rd Street

,

Lansdale

,

Pennsylvania

 

Suggested donation: $30/workshop and $15/concert donation at the door (all proceeds go to the artists), children 12 & under free

 

Reservations are required for both the workshop and concert.  Please call Bob at 215-368-0525 for reservations or email bette@betteconway.com    Either way, please provide BOTH a phone number AND an e-mail address, and tell us how many seats you want to reserve.

 

If you leave a voicemail, FOR CLARITY, please spell out your e-mail address TWICE and say your phone number TWICE. Thanks!

 

When you reserve a seat, we'll send a confirmation via e-mail.

 

Bring your favorite beverage to drink and finger food to share, and we will have some munchies provided.  Be sure to bring instruments to jam at the Mermaid Inn, and there will be CDs available both at the session and the concert.

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.

 

Skip Healy, Healy Flute  Co.

5600 Post Rd. #114, Suite 150

East Greenwich

,

R.I.

02818

skip@skiphealy.com

 

Albert Alfonso is the man the legendary Mick Moloney dubbed "The Celtic-Cuban Connection." Born in

New York City

, he is a first generation American, son of Cuban and Haitian immigrants who moved to

Miami

where he grew up and his influence was mainly Cuban music. Later, in his mid-20's, Albert settled in

Dallas

,

TX

.  In the late 1970's, Albert became involved in Irish music, playing the piano and button accordions, and the bodhran. In 1983, he and others formed a ceili that would become known as the very first North Texas Irish Festival (NTIF). Albert has been a director of this festival, and has served as vice president and president of its governing sponsoring organization, the Southwest Celtic Music Association (SCMA).

 

In the early 1990's, Albert began making bodhrans, which can now be found in every state as well as in

Canada

,

Ireland

,

England

,

France

,

Russia

, and

Japan

. He would like to think that at any given time, "one is in the air going somewhere" in the world to be played onstage. He has conducted numerous drum workshops across North America, and also at the Royal Academy of Music in

London

and

Glasgow

. He has performed and/or recorded with artists such as Solas, Altan, Liz Carroll, Roger Landes, Greenfields of America, Brian McNeill, John Doyle, Jerry Holland and J.P. Cormier.

 

Albert Alfonso, Albert Alfonso Bodhrans

9827 Kingsman Drive

Dallas

,

TX

75228-3715

albertalfonso.com