SongNotes: Rain in the Key of D.
Jamie shares a recently rediscovered version of Smith’s enchanting song, recorded live with Michael and Paul Amandes on guitars. Evanston, Il. 2008
Michael Peter Smith
Michael P. Smith Musical Tribute at The Hideout
This event is sold out! Thanks to The Hideout!
Hosted by Paul Durica (Chicago History Museum) and Mark Guarino (Country & Midwestern), the afternoon at The Hideout features musicians from a broad spectrum of styles honoring the late singer/songwriter Michael P. Smith, whose fifty-plus year career, in addition to a solo act, included a rock duo and trio (with Barbara Barrow), folk ensembles (Weavermania, Fourtold), composition for theatre (Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, Blair Thomas & Co) and extensive collaborations (with Steve Goodman, Anne Hills, Jamie O’Reilly, James Lee Stanley and others).
Musicians on the bill Dec 16 include (in alphabetical order): Naomi Ashley, Judson Claiborne, Steve Dawson, Gerald Dowd, Rachel Drew, Mark Dvorak, Chris Farrell, Jon Langford, Jamie O’Reilly and Linda M. Smith.
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LISTEN Michael talk (from Songwriting)
LISTEN to Michael sing Starry Archipelago from Moby Dick
Jamie’s Christmas Greeting, an audio/visual postcard
Jamie O’Reilly’s Christmas Greeting, audio/video postcard. 2022
SongNotes: Siever’s by Michael Smith
Jamie’s SongNotes Blog featured Michael Smith’s classic autumn song. Sievers from Spoon River Anthology. Here in an unreleased recording, with Peter Swenson’s arrangement. Jamie will feature the song in Harvest Home, on Oct 9 at Tre Kronor.
Jamie O. SongNotes: Hey Kid by Michael Smith
Jamie’s SongNotes: Hey Kid.
The story behind the soaring anthem inspired by Leo Segedin’s paintings. Sung here by Jamie and a video with Michael Smith singing.
Jamie’s SongNotes Queen of the May
“I’ve kept it alive for you.”
SongNotes: Queen of the May.
Jamie talks about the tradition of MayDay and May Crownings, and shares a sweet reminicence of her Mother.
SongNotes ~Jamie O’Reilly, Reimagining The Swallow
UNFORGETTABLE.
SongNotes The Swallow,
Jamie sings for her daughters in this reimagined Latin-style ballad, with flutist Lily Floeter adding to Michael Smith’s original tender guitar track.
Anne Hills & Jamie O’Reilly~ Roots in the Garden Songs of Resilience and Spring
NOTE WE ARE NEARING CAPACITY.
Enjoy a spring concert in the lovely garden at Tre Kronor Swedish Bistro.
Songbirds Anne and Jamie sing songs to lift the spirit; signature songs, folksongs, lullabies, anthems, novelty tunes, torch songs, and World War II blitz-ballads.
The program will feature unforgettable songs our grandmothers sang, from sheet music picked-up at the five and dime. Songs heard in old movies, sung in the parlor, music hall, and around the dinner table. And, of course, favorites from Anne and Jamie’s extensive musical catalogs.
Judi Cogan Heikes reads poems.
Tickets are $25. each for admission. Purchase advance tickets here via Paypal.
Or Zelle Jamie.joanjor@gmail.com
A selection of Scandinavian entrees, appetizers and desserts will be available from the menu. Alchoholic beverages are BYOB.
There are heatlamps and canopies in the garden. If weather is extreme we will move inside.
We ask people to take appropriate Covid precautions: vaxed, boosted.
Listen to Jamie sing Cole Porter’s Allez vous en (Are you going?)
SongNotes Treasures: A Cradle in Bethlehem
Jamie’s SongNotes Blog launches its Treasures series, with the story behind her beautiful recording of A Cradle in Bethlehem. And a family tradition.
SongNotes: Rozhinkes mit Mandlen ראָזשינקעס מיט מאַנדלען
Jamie’s SongNotes blog features the revered Yiddish song Rozhinkes mit Mandlen, ראָזשינקעס מיט מאַנדלען, which she recorded on Pasiones, at WFMT Studio in 1997. Jamie recounts where she first heard the song. and the vocalists whose musical styles she found compelling.
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