Michael Flatley Plays the Flute at Castlehyde (NEW 2020)

This is a new video of Michael Flatley playing the flute at Castlehyde in 2020, which we hope lifts your spirits. Likewise, the long journey required to get to this video is a story you may find similarly uplifting. 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 line. When it’s his turn, he asks for flute lessons. He has the vague sense he doesn’t really belong there, but that’s not going to stop him. The counterwoman looks down on him with impatient contempt. “How many lessons? How many times a week? Who’s going to pay for this, son? They’re eight d