Jamie’s essay from Chicago Arts Journal, 2014. Working for social justice. Choosing Chicago as home base, and what followed after.
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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 […]
Winter Roots Beau, Ed, Willa
Roots Salon Presents Beau O’Reilly and Edward Reardon Deep Ballads and Odd Blues With Special Guest Willa Moore Saturday February 25 8 PM Roots Salon 773.203.7661 or email roots@jamieoreilly.com Private address call for reservation “I am at my most joyful on stage, in a band, singin raw or sweet.” Roots Salon presents a full evening […]
Roots Salon Presents Beau O’Reilly and Edward Reardon Deep Ballads and Odd Blues With Special Guest Willa Moore Saturday February 25 8 PM Roots Salon 773.203.7661 or email roots@jamieoreilly.com Private address call for reservation “I am at my most joyful on stage, in a band, singin raw or sweet.” Roots Salon presents a full evening […]
Jamie’s News of the Brood – O’Reillys, O’Reillys Everywhere…
SAVE THE DATE! MARCH 18 Prop Thr Jamie O’Reilly & The Rogues, Crooked Mouth Band & Midnight Moxie an all family band show dedicated to our Mom! Note from Jamie There are no dry spells when it comes to the creative ventures my family of origin makes happen – the shear talent that fuels our […]
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