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Red is the Rose, Jamie O’Reilly Trio
The Irish folksong performed by Jamie’s Trio.Listen to Red is the Rose here. It’s not for the parting of my sister KateIt’s not for the love of my motherIt’s all for the loss of my bonny blue-eyed ladThat I’m leavin my homeland forever Jamie sings the timeless Irish ballad, with Michael Smith on guitar.Featuring Bob […]
A la ru. Jamie remembers Wayland Rogers, and sings his arrangement of this Spanish carol
The nightingale’s lullaby to the Christ Child, performed in Spanish with female voices. Katrina O’Reilly-Loundy sings verse one, and plays piano. Soloist Jamie O’Reilly joins her, with a chorus of female singers, from a live 2004 O’Reilly family holiday concert. . My dear friend Wayland Rogers was my vocal coach, and landlord in the early […]
Christmas songs with Michael and Jamie
The Gift of the Magi “the Magi” theme, Mary’s Boychild, I Heard the Bells, Cradle in Bethlehem, Silent Night (instrumental)
Michael Smith Folkstage Memorial Part 2, radio
On Sept 26, 2020, Anne Hills, Jamie O’Reilly, Paul Amandes, and pianist John Erickson performed a concert, recorded at the Hinsdale Unitarian Church, honoring the musical life of their friend, the beloved singer/songwriter Michael P. Smith, who died on August 3 of this year. Produced, hosted and engineered by Rich Warren for Folkstage, a program […]
Michael Smith Folkstage Tribute, Set 1
On Sept 26, 2020 Anne Hills, Jamie O’Reilly, Paul Amandes, and pianist John Erickson performed a concert, recorded at the Hinsdale Unitarian Church, honoring the musical life of their friend, the beloved singer/songwriter Michael P. Smith, who died on August 3 of this year. Produced, hosted and engineered by Rich Warren for Folkstage, a program […]
Homefront instrumental by Michael Smith
Jamie O’Reilly Song Notes Songs of a Kerry Madwoman, was a song cycle, we recorded and performed in the early 2000s. At the DePaul Humanities Center, The Chicago Humanities Center, and at Prop Theater. It was recorded by Bruce Roper in his School Street studio. Poet Patricia Monaghan, and the DePaul Humanities Center, commissioned this […]
Crazy Mary with Michael, Anne, Jamie & Paul
Michael, Anne, Jamie & Pail sing Crazy Mary
Jamie & Michael: Waving to Picasso
Welcome to this new feature! As of 9/20 my blog will have a new feature Song Notes, the stories and audio recordings of songs Michael wrote for me and/or performed with me. “To all of you who think you know meYou think you know my heartYou see me in cafes and thinkThat’s all there is […]
Michael Smith remembered – Obituaries, features.
A note before reading. This website, and its contents: posts, history and reflections, are the domain of me, Jamie O’Reilly, a writer, performer, and friend of Michael’s. It is not a commercial or fan site. Nor do I act as agent, or handle his business affairs. Those roles will be his family’s to determine, now […]
