Riverdance River Liffey, led by Jean Butler and Padraic Moyles. Riverdance Riverdance is a theatrical show consisting mainly of traditional Irish music and dance. With a score composed by Bill Whelan, it originated as an interval performance act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, featuring Irish dancing champions Jean Butler and Michael Flatley. Shortly afterwards, husband and wife production team John McColgan and Moya Doherty expanded it into a stage show, which opened in Dublin on 9 February 1995. Since then, the show has visited over 450 venues worldwide and been seen by over 25 million people, making it one of
Riverdance: Music from the Show Riverdance: Music from the Show Riverdance: Music from the Show is an album of the music composed by Bill Whelan for the "Riverdance" theatrical show, and performed by the show's own musicians and singers. The recording was engineered and mixed at Windmill Lane Studios in 1995. In 1997, it won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album for 1996. The album was released four times: in 1995, 1997, 2003 and 2005, each time with a different cover, sometimes different versions or mixes of the songs, and a slightly different track list. Track listing from the original release in 1995: