WELCOME
… to the website of Sharon Leahy & Rick Good
Original Creations & Living Traditions
DANCE, MUSIC, THEATER & FILM
The creative team of Leahy & Good began making art in the 1980s and has proven, through the course of the past forty years, to be prolific, eclectic, inspiring and entertaining.
Represented here is our work as individuals, as a duo, and in our current catch-all for collaborative exploits, The Family Business. Also included is content which can no longer be found on the former Rhythm in Shoes website at www.rhythminshoes.org.
WHAT’S HAPPENING?
TRAD ROMP WKND
Think of it as a mini-folk festival. The Trad Romp Wknd holds forth at the Foundry Theater in Yellow Springs, October 24, 25 and 26, 2025.
Presented by Mad River Theater Works and The Big Family Business, the schedule of concerts, workshops, dances and jam sessions will feature local artists Good & Young, Bob Lucas and the Hedgehog String Band, and The Corndrinkers, as well as Bay-Area banjo player, singer, songwriter, dancer and square-dance caller, Evie Ladin, and New York’s Indie-roots trailblazers, The Mammals.
STEP-A-TUNE DANCE WEEKEND
Announcing the 2nd (annual?) Step-a-tune Dance Weekend, taking place just outside of Floyd, Virgunia, November 7 – 9, 2025. The weekend takes place at the Floyd Events Center at Floyd EcoVillage, set on 75 private acres just off the Blue Ridge Parkway and a few miles from downtown Floyd, and is geared to intermediate/advanced percussive dancers who were looking to challenge themselves.

The Talented Dance Teachers – Becky & Sharon
WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING
ASHOKAN FIDDLE & DANCE
It wouldn’t be summer without our annual trip to Southern Week at Ashokan. For more than forty years, our dear friends, Jay Ungar & Molly Mason have been organizing, hosting and playing beautiful music at the Ashokan Center in upstate New York.
From August 10th to the 16th, there was music, dancing, classes, food and, best of all, the positive energy of a community of wonderful people. If that all sounds like a great way to spend a week, believe us, it was. This year featured an expanded percussive dance track for beginner to advanced dancers, which included daily classes of drills, improvisation and choreography, and were taught by the formidable team of Sharon Leahy, Becky Hill, and Matt Gordon. This years clogging team thundered across the dance pavilion with 22 dancers!

Team Clogging at Southern Week
If you’re looking for some inspiration at home, check out Sharon’s video, Hot Jim, featuring feats of famous feet from a world of fine flatfooting.

Sharon with her whistle at the Root Camp Triathlon
photo by Joe Vidrine
See our old-timey version of Bob Dylan’s lovely love song, If Not for You, at the Staff Concert.
BIG FAMILY BUSINESS
The Family Business is our current catch-all for whatever project we might dream up. When it grows to include our extended family, it’s The BIG Family Business, and that’s where we’ve been busy lately.
Many of you already know about The Foundry Theater, operating in Yellow Springs at the edge of Antioch’s Campus. We’ve seen several good shows there over the past couple of years and naturally it got us thinking of what we might do there ourselves.

Good & Young – Sharon, Rick, Emma and Linzay
On September 21st, Good & Young, our family band with daughter Emma and her husband Linzay, teamed up with our old friend Bob Lucas, his step-daughter Chloe Manor and her husband Chris Westhoff (who happens to be the driving force behind The Foundry Theater), to present a concert of original and traditional songs and tunes, super-charged with clogging to old time music.

Sharon, Rick, Emma, Linzay, Chris, Bob and Chloe
To kick it up a notch, former Rhythm in Shoes dancers Beth Wright, along with her daughter, Violet put some sweet icing on the cake along with cousin Becky Hill, world renowned instigator of Terpsichorean delights.

The Dance finale – Violet, Sharon, Becky, Beth and Emma
This multigenerational ensemble of families, with too many decades of performance experience to count, fulfilled their promise to captivate, comfort and amuse. The performance was followed by a community barn dance, with gender neutral instruction designed for all ages and levels.
But that’s not all! On Sunday afternoon we all came back to perform for an enthusiastic group of kids, parents, and supporters of the Antioch School. As they say, a good time was had by all.
NEWEST RELEASE
At the Corner of Jekyll and Hyde
a new album by Rick Good
Yes, you can still call them albums.
Bob Dylan once said, The world don’t need any more songs. They’ve got enough. They’ve got way too many. As a matter of fact, if nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the world ain’t gonna suffer for it. Nobody cares. There’s enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probably, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There’s enough songs⦠Unless someone’s gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That’s a different story.
And Rick says: I wrote these songs over the course of almost fifty years because I had something to say. As for the purity of my heart, that is a work in progress.
And for those of you who remember with fondness the socially conscious folk music of the sixties, our response to a mass shooting in our hometown of Dayton, Ohio, Do Something, is just one example of the original songs Rick has been writing about the ongoing state of our world. You can hear them all on Soundcloud.
Check out our MERCHANDISE PAGE for more info.
ON YOUTUBE
Watch and hear video clips of Sharon’s and Rick’s work from the vast and varied repertoire of Rhythm in Shoes, now accessible and ever expanding on the LeahyGood YouTube channel, as well as this site’s VIDEO page.
Website banner photo by Nate Cooper






