Discography for Skip Healy

Recordings 

1984 -- "Marathon Dreams" - Empty Pockets Productions.  Featured musicians; Skip Healy, Ellen Cohn, Mark Demchak, Matt Bruns. Irish flute, guitar, concertina, mandolin, bodhran.

1985 -- "Empty Pockets" - Empty Pockets Productions. Received Grammy Nomination for Best Debut Album - Folk. Featured musicians; Skip Healy, Johhny Cunningham, Jerry O'Sullivan, Trevor Ferrier, Dick Murai, Dave Paton, Ellen Cohn, Mark Demchak, John Ciaglia, Truck Croteau. Irish flute, American fife, Eb piccolo, fiddle, Uilleann pipes, guitar, keyboards, concertina, bouzouki, percussion.

1987 -- "Live From New York" - Empty Pockets Productions. Skip Healy; Irish flute, American fife, Abell whistle.

1991 -- "Farewell New England Shores" - Empty Pockets Productions. Featured musicians: Skip Healy, Danny Noveck. Irish flute, Abell whistle, guitar.

2001 -- "Purgatory Chasm" - Empty Pockets Productions. Featured musicians; Skip Healy, Aine Minogue, Flynn Cohen, Paul Joseph. Irish flute, American fife, harp, guitar.

2003 -- "Have Ye This One?" - Instructional CD & Book for the Irish flute - Empty Pockets Productions. Skip Healy, solo Irish flute

2006 -- "The Cartel" - Empty Pockets Productions. Featured musicians; Skip Healy, Marc Bernier, Mark Poloka, Jim Plaut.  Irish flute, D piccolo, octave mandolin, cittern, prim, bass, clarinet, alto recorder, percussion and vocals.

Recordings featuring Skip Healy

1976 -- "Music of the American Revolution" by the American Fife Ensemble (Healy, Benoit, Ciaglia) - New World Records.

1981 -- "Songs of Sea and Saloon" by the Ancient Mariners.

1982 -- "The Third Album" by The Fabulous Farquahr - Warped Records.

1985 -- "There's a Light" by Lui Collins - Green Linnet Records.

1997 -- "Travelin' Dreamland" by The Mill City Rockers - Big Records.

1998 -- "The Vow, An Irish Wedding Celebration," featuring Aine Minogue, Skip Healy, and various artists.

2001 -- "Always We Come" by Marc Bernier - produced by Skip Healy at Empty Pockets Productions.

2001 -- "Wooden Flute Obsession, Vol. 1" by Various Artists - International Traditional Music Society, Inc.

2004 -- Skip Healy and Marc Bernier featured on Mystic Seaport Music Festival anthology CD "Songs of the Sea."

Compositions 

2000 -- "Return Home," Skip Healy composition which was used by Johnny Cunningham (of Silly Wizard) and Seamus Egan (the Brothers McMullen Soundtrack) on Album "Solas," achieved Gold Record status. "Return Home" was the hit single from that cd.

2001 -- "Return Home" recorded by all-Ireland champion fiddler Liz Carroll and flutist Laurence Nugent on Nugent's first solo cd; won the "Indie" award.

2002 -- "Return Home" recorded by Seattle Irish group "Setanta" on their first cd.

2007 --  "Purgatory Chasm" recorded by the French Canadian group "Bardefou" on their first cd. 

1985 - present -- Skip Healy's many compositions (ASCAP) have been recorded on his own albums and cd's as well as being used on many recordings by other artists.