Michael Flatley Is Quite The Flute Player

Follow Your Dream, Day #431: A Flute and A Castle It is 1966. A small eight-year-old boy is walking through southwest Chicago on a blazing hot summer's day. How long has he been walking? Hours? His face runny with sweat, he finally finds his destination: an incredibly fancy music store with beautiful silver flutes under a glass case. The little boy, clutching his poor wooden flute, stares in awe. It is an incredible store. What is he, a ragamuffin skinny kid, doing there? Undeterred, he waits in

Follow Your Dream, Day #575: Duet In 1998, The Late Late Show ran a tribute episode to Michael Flatley. We highly encourage watching it if you haven't seen it. One special moment came when Michael reunited with the Chieftains and performed a flute duet with the legendary Matt Molloy. As Michael discusses in the Gold video from the turn of the millennium, his touring career with the Chieftains was a wonderful time for him, allowing him to grow and experiment as a dancer in front of live audiences