Skelpin also performs each year at the World Music Festival on Catalina Island, held near the end of each October.
[3] Tim Foley also wrote music and played uilleann pipes for the movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
On September 6, 2008, Foley reported that his set of uilleann pipes were stolen from his car while he was house sitting in La Jolla, California.
Co-Produced by the band, Tim Riley and Alan Sanderson, the album includes guest appearances from percussionist David Page and Matt Hensley of Flogging Molly.
In early 2010, a song from A Trip to Skye, "The View", written by Foley, won Grand Prize in the World Music category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.