Skip Healy Irish Music
Reels

Silver Spear, Glen Allen Traditional Irish session tunes

Bay of Fundy Nova Scotian tune popular at contra dances
Hornpipes

The Dream Quickstep from The Fifer’s and Drummer’s

Guide, published 1861 by
George Bruce and Daniel Decator Emmett

Tommy Maguire’s Traditional, as learned from Phil
Moloughney in Golden, Co., Tipperary, Ireland
City of Savannah Named for the first Steam-powered
ship to cross the North Atlantic Ocean

Jigs
Willie Coleman’s Traditional, inspired by a performance
by the Irish flutist Matt Molloy, The Chieftains
Calliope House written in honor of friends in
Philadelphia by Dave Richardson
from The Boys of the Lough
The Coolin popular Slow Air, arrangement from

Phil Moloughney “as it was sung years ago, nice and
handy so the tune doesn’t interfere with the music.”
Flute and Dance Traditional
Featuring champion Step Dancers Liam Harney
and Alicia Greenway

The reels Skip Healy plays tonight are his favorite for listening
or dancing. The first two hornpipe tunes are featured on his
recording Farewell New England’s Shores. Musicians are asked to
play the Coolin wherever they may be in Ireland. In the Flute and
Dance, the power and grace of music and dance are brought
together in their traditional form. The blend of intricate dance
patterns with lively flute music brings the evening’s program to
an exciting finish.

Skip Healy is widely regarded as one of America’s finest Irish
flute and American fife players. His style of playing is both
traditional and contemporary, breathing new life into a wide
repertoire of music. Granted the title Master Musician for the
State of Rhode Island by the Rhode Island State Council for the
Arts, he now has a fife-making shop in the City of Providence.
Along with an active performance schedule, Mr. Healy teaches,
lectures, and has released many recordings of traditional flute and
fife music. ’

Alicia Greenway is a student at both Boston University and
the Michael Smith School of Irish Dance. An East-coast champion
step-dancer, Ms. Greenway has qualified twice for the World
Championships in Ireland, Senior Ladies” Division.

Liam Harney is a two-time World Champion Irish step-dancer
who has founded dance academies on both the East and West
Coasts of the United States.