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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?

NEW WORK AT THE FOUNDRY
You will not want to miss BIG Family Business at The Foundry Theater, this May. The concert will feature What Remains, a new work choreographed by Sharon Leahy.

What Remains is a dance theater piece employing the medium of percussive dance and exploring the complexity of family relationships—staying open, staying still, staying home, staying away, staying strong—the work will focus on the deep roots we all share while accepting the diverse branches we all crave.

In addition to this new work, the concert will include a swingy suite of tap dances from the Rhythm in Shoes rep, and a theater piece in collaboration with mask and puppet maker, Tristan Cupp, retelling the fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper.

Saturday, May 2nd @ 7:00pm and Sunday, May 3rd @ 2:00pm

Dancers:
Addie Bakan, Becky Hill, Sharon Leahy, Beth Wright,
Violet Wright, Emma Young


Sharon & Violet

Musicians:
Kevin Anderson, Ben Cooper, Rick Good, Linzay Young


Rick, Linzay & Ben

DANCE CLASSES
For those of you who vowed to sharpen your dance skills this New Year, Sharon Leahy is teaching both tap and Cajun dancing.

Sharing the Thursday night slot with Beth Wright (formerly with Rhythm in Shoes) at the South Dayton School of Dance, Sharon will be teaching the Adult Intermediate/Advanced Tap class from 7:00 to 8:00, exploring complex rhythms, movements and styles. These sessions are designed for adult students with a significant amount of experience.

SDSD is in the Cross Pointe Shopping Center at 101 E. Alex Bell Rd. #130 Centerville, OH.

If, however, the joys of Social Dancing are what you crave, we guarantee that the sight of couples waltzing and two-stepping to traditional Cajun Music in Southwest Louisiana can make anyone want to learn how it’s done.

Fortunately for you, Sharon is also teaching a Cajun Dance Class on four successive Tuesday nights. These classes will take place at The Foundry Theater in Yellow Springs on February 24, March 3, 10 & 17, from 6:30 to 7:30. And once you’ve learned to two-step and waltz around the room, you’ll want to be on the floor for…

CAJUN DANCING AT THE FOUNDRY
WYSO and The Foundry Theater presents Cajun Dance Party with The Cajun Country Revival, this March 21st at 7:00 p.m.


Nadine, Jesse, Linzay, Sammy and Joel

Experience 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. Don’t miss this chance to dance and hear them live in Yellow Springs!

WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING

STEP-A-TUNE DANCE WEEKEND
The 2nd annual Step-a-Tune Dance Weekend took place November 7 – 9, 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 more than twenty of them showed up this year to find just what they were looking for. Rachel Eddy and Rick Good kept the tunes flowing, fueling the dancers with their inspiring music.

Many thanks to Dylan Locke and Leigh McKagen of the Floyd Country Store and Handmade Music School for hosting us. Next year’s Step-a-Tune Dance Weekend will take place November 6 – 8, 2026.


The Talented Dance Teachers – Becky & Sharon

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.

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.

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