Spring has sprung. The winter is going. So this means “the melt” and all it reveals. Your prompt, should you choose to accept it, is REVEAL.The path through my back-yard, which I can finally walk without slipping on ice, is littered with the droppings of rabbits, and the tree branch overhead has the first robin. What […]
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Willa Moore ~ TallGrass Writers Guild Featured Author ~ Mar 22 at 2 PM
“…a compelling poet and performer I didn’t take a breath during her reading!” TallGrass Writers Guild presents Willa Moore Featured Author, March Open Mic Sunday, March 22 at 2 p.m. Powell’s Bookstore 1218 S Halsted, Chicago Call 312.243.9070 Admission is $6, $5 for students Visit TallGrass website: www.outriderpress.net Join performance poet and singer songwriter Willa Moore for a […]
Michael P. Smith ~ March – April Concerts, new CD
Michael P. Smith March – April Blog and E-newsletter The NEW CD The Selfish Giant Songs of a Catholic Childhood, Chief O’Neill’s Pub, Mar 5 New Jersey Mar 20-21-22 Anne Hills concert April 18 Moby Dick project at the MCA A note from Jamie O’Reilly Michael completed the run of The Selfish Giant on Sunday, and is moving this […]
Michael P. Smith March – April Blog and E-newsletter The NEW CD The Selfish Giant Songs of a Catholic Childhood, Chief O’Neill’s Pub, Mar 5 New Jersey Mar 20-21-22 Anne Hills concert April 18 Moby Dick project at the MCA A note from Jamie O’Reilly Michael completed the run of The Selfish Giant on Sunday, and is moving this […]
Jamie O’Reilly on productivity
“It doesn’t happen by osmosis.” Jamie revisits advice she gave in a 2014 blog on productivity, and its relevance for today’s creatives.
Chicago Arts Journal: A Voice for the Soul of the City, Jamie’s story
Jamie’s essay from Chicago Arts Journal, 2014. Working for social justice. Choosing Chicago as home base, and what followed after.
Solamente ~ Jamie’s song of heartbreak, with lyrics
Solamente song by Jamie O’Reilly and Michael Smith Recorded on Swimming Deeper I wrote this lyric as a journal entry at Urbis Orbis, a hipster coffeeshop in Chicago’s Wicker Park in winter of 1993. It was where I went after the gym, when I had a broken heart, and my kids were at school and I didn’t […]
Solamente song by Jamie O’Reilly and Michael Smith Recorded on Swimming Deeper I wrote this lyric as a journal entry at Urbis Orbis, a hipster coffeeshop in Chicago’s Wicker Park in winter of 1993. It was where I went after the gym, when I had a broken heart, and my kids were at school and I didn’t […]
Listen to Studs. The First Hundred Years
Jamie writes about her friend Studs Terkel, honoring the centenary of his birth. And shares a promise she made, and kept to sing a Mahalia song.
Michael Smith April E-News & Spring Showcase
Songs of a Catholic Childhood is sold out for the run! MAY – Read about Michael’s Fitzgerald’s gig May 24 and more. Michael’s latest Blog: Life Lessons from Me and Rudy Vallee: “So one of the big advantages to having the privilege of growing old is that you get new, presumably cooler viewpoints that […]
Songs of a Catholic Childhood is sold out for the run! MAY – Read about Michael’s Fitzgerald’s gig May 24 and more. Michael’s latest Blog: Life Lessons from Me and Rudy Vallee: “So one of the big advantages to having the privilege of growing old is that you get new, presumably cooler viewpoints that […]
Michael P. Smith E-News March, April, May…
If you’re walking up and down these alleys take your rosary underneath these churchyards miners died. So long the Mass today gonna be a hot Sunday get away. Don’t you wish that you could stay here? Well, well, well could this be Helen and Gene’s son? Well he sure has grown Yeah, he sure […]
If you’re walking up and down these alleys take your rosary underneath these churchyards miners died. So long the Mass today gonna be a hot Sunday get away. Don’t you wish that you could stay here? Well, well, well could this be Helen and Gene’s son? Well he sure has grown Yeah, he sure […]
Listen: Red is the Rose, Love Ballad
Happy Valentine’s Day, Friends Listen to one of the greatest love songs ever written Red is the Rose, Jamie O’Reilly Trio Jamie O’Reilly Trio with Jamie, Michael Smith (guitar), Bob Weber (cello), Peter Swenson (guitar) and John Floeter (bass) Red is the Rose Come over the hill My bonnie Irish lad Come over […]
Happy Valentine’s Day, Friends Listen to one of the greatest love songs ever written Red is the Rose, Jamie O’Reilly Trio Jamie O’Reilly Trio with Jamie, Michael Smith (guitar), Bob Weber (cello), Peter Swenson (guitar) and John Floeter (bass) Red is the Rose Come over the hill My bonnie Irish lad Come over […]