Listen to The Foggy Dew, the powerful Irish ballad. Jamie sings. Jim myConway performs a stirring solo on tin whistle, accompanied by a stellar ensemble. The Foggy Dew is part of the “In Old Chicago” show.
Michael Peter Smith
SongNotes Freiheit! Michael, Jamie, Katrina & Studs
In our Pasiones recording Michael is featured on lead vocals, performing Freiheit with requisite grit, vigor and power. A theatre review of Pasiones referred to our musical pairing as: “Like gentle rain falling on gravel.”
Jamie Aug ENews
Jamie August ENes. Jamie blogs about Anne Hills “Accidental August” CD, and remembers Michael Smith on the anniversary of his death last August. And more.
Song Notes – In the Garrett
“They taste the pomegranate and the pearAh, the irises and yellow daisiesAll cut up on the chipped red platethe gypsies cry below on the stairsIn the garrett” from In the Garrett, by Jamie O’Reilly UPDATED Aug, 2023 SongNotesIn the GarrettModèle d’artisteBy JamieWhen reading about the enclave of artists in late 19c Paris Salon, we hear […]
SongNotes Butcher Boy, Jamie with Michael Smith and Bob Weber
SongNotes Blog. Jamie sings the Butcher Boy, Irish folk song. Michael Smith and Bob Weber accompany. live from the Old Town School of Folk Music 2004
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Folkstage tribute to Michael Smith with Anne Hills & Jamie OReilly
Crazy Mary by Michael P. Smith
Recorded at WFMT Studio One
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