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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.

Where There is Love
photo by David Sherman

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?

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 16th to the 22nd, there’ll be 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 is. This will be the second year featuring an expanded percussive dance track for beginner to advanced dancers. This will include daily classes of drills, improvisation and choreography, taught by the formidable team of Sharon Leahy, Becky Hill, Matt Gordon and Sara Rowbottom.


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, recorded at the Ashokan Southern Week Staff Concert.

WHEATLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL
It’s the Festival closest to ours hearts! We missed it last year and that was enough. This September 11 – 13, we’ll return with an all-star dance and music show we’re calling Hill & Leahy’s Old Time Dance Party.

Dancers Becky Hill, Meredith Krygowski, Brian Lawton, Sharon Leahy, Sara Rowbottom, Adam Wheeler, Beth Wright, Violet Wright and Emma Young will be accompanied by musicians Ben Cooper, Rachel Eddy, Rick Good and Rhys Jones. With a lineup like that, the 2026, Wheatland Music Festival is sure to get the kind of show they’ve come to love.

HAPPY HOLLOW OLD-TIME MUSIC GATHERING
If you’re looking to spend a few days this Fall jamming with your pals, attending workshops with well-known old-time musicians, and/or enjoying a concert followed by a square dance and community campfire, it’s all there at the Happy Hollow Old-Time Music gathering in the scenic hills of Southeast Ohio this September 24th to the 27th. Camping is encouraged.

This will be our first trip to Happy Hollow and it’s about time we spent some quality time with the great old-time music scene in that part of the Buckeye State.

STEP-A-TUNE DANCE WEEKEND
The 3rd annual Step-a-Tune Dance Weekend takes place November 6 – 8, at Floyd EcoVillage, just a few miles from downtown Floyd, Virginia.

The weekend is geared to intermediate/advanced percussive dancers who are looking to challenge themselves, and instructor/organizers Becky Hill and Sharon Leahy know how to bring the challenges. This year’s guest dancer/instructor is the Nic Gariess, one of the finest percussive dancers currently on the scene. Musicians Rachel Eddy and Rick Good return this year to keep the tunes flowing.


The Talented Dance Teachers – Becky & Sharon

WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING

NEW WORK AT THE FOUNDRY
The BIG Family Business was in concert at The Foundry Theater in Yellow Springs, Ohio on May 2nd and 3rd, 2026..

The shows featured What Remains, an emotionally inspiring new work by Sharon to a beautifully curated banjo score that explored, through percussive dance, the cycles of life: what we gain, what we lose and what remains.

Also on the program, our most recent collaboration with master puppet maker Tristan Cupp of Zoot Theater, John J. Plenty & Fiddler Dan, a contemporary slant on the old fable, beautifully written by poet John Ciardi, that asks the questions: “When is enough enough?” and “What is the power of music?”

The concert ended with RIS Tap Suite, a medley of tap dance favorites from 25 years of the Rhythm in Shoes repertoire.


illustration by Sam Bartlett

CAJUN COUNTRY REVIVAL
WYSO and The Foundry Theater presented Cajun Dance Party with The Cajun Country Revival, on March 21st at the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Yellow Springs.


Nadine, Jesse, Linzay, Sammy and Joel

It was authentic Cajun Dancehall music at its finest, featuring Louisiana natives Jesse Legé (of Bayou Brew), Linzay Young and Joel Savoy (founding members of the Red Stick Ramblers), and Sammy Lind and Nadine Landry (of the Foghorn String Band). These folks have brought joy and jubilation to feet and ears the world over.

Leading up to this memorable event, the joys of social dancing (in this case waltzing and two-stepping to traditional Cajun Music) were taught by Sharon on four successive Tuesday nights at the Herndon Gallery on the Antioch Campus. More than a dozen participants honed their dance hall moves and found themselves well prepared to let the good times roll with the Cajun Country Revival.

TRAD ROMP WKND
It was a mini-folk festival when the Trad Romp Wknd held forth at the Foundry Theater in Yellow Springs, October 24, 25 and 26.

Presented by Mad River Theater Works and The Big Family Business, the schedule of concerts, workshops, dances and jam sessions featured 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.

Everyone involved—presenters and participants alike—agreed the event was a success and a 2026, Trad Romp Weekend is a must for our collective future.

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.


photo by Andy Snow

Website banner photo by Nate Cooper