Jamie O’Reilly’s May Day Soiree “Roots on the Road” Sunday May 1, 1:30 PM SPACE 1245 Chicago Ave. Evanston, Il Tickets 18 adv. 20 door. 23 table. 847.492.8860 evanstonspace.com Lusty May Meets Worker’s Day. Music. Poetry. Raffle Jamie O’Reilly and Stuart Rosenberg, Artistic Director SPACE, present this delightful spring-mix of musical and literary fare. Jamie […]
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sometimes you wonder about heaven and hell but not at once and not on the grey afternoons these days you know what purgatory is the in-between the waiting place the not-quite Halloween not yet turkeys and cranberries -from ‘grey,’ a poem, Nov. 1
Consulting & Community
Artists have it good. We make things up, show them off, and make our mark. If we’re lucky, people get what we do while we’re here. After we go and leave things behind, those things tell our story. – blog October 31
Production
“She sings and brings us to our lives. To cherish what is simple, know what is lost, and heal what is hurt. When Jamie sings, we laugh, we cry and we remember.”
About Jamie O’Reilly
“A Voice for the Soul of the City” One day, from the front seat of my car, I watch the sunrise over frozen Lake Michigan. Poetic. Beautiful – purple morning streaks in chalky red-grey -blog, Jan 28
A little something’ from the archive: “Chi-Lives” Chicago Reader, 2001
Jamie O’Reilly’s childhood sounds like the premise for a Technicolor-drenched 1950s Hollywood musical: a powerful Irish-American, Shakespearean actor father revered in the local theatrical community, a radiant, silver-voiced diva of a mother, and a brood of 14 singing children, each more talented than the next. Put them in a small town in northern Illinois, where […]
