Skip Healy and Albert Alfonso House Concert Thursday July 23

[Bette Conway]

Please join us at Spring Hill House for an evening of Irish Music with the talented and charming Skip Healy and Albert Alfonso.


July 23, 2009 @ 8:00 PM
215.368.0525
[e-mail]
136 E 3rd St
Lansdale, PA 19446


Please note that reservations are required for the house concert. You can contact Bette or Bob at the above number/email address. Tickets are $15.00 at the door.


Bring your favorite beverage to drink and finger food to share, and other munchies will be provided. Be sure to bring instruments for tunes after the house concert. Skip and Albert will have CDs available for purchase - so don't forget to bring a little extra cash!


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
[e-mail]


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
http://www.albertalfonso.com