Holiday Concerts listing
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Canada Tour
November 21 – December 14
Michael with John McDermott
Michael is touring from Saskatchewan to Alberta to Ontario:
With the Trio: John, Michael and Jason Fowler and
with John in a series of Christmas Memories concerts.
Chicago Concerts
SONGS… December 19 & January 20
SNOW QUEEN December 22
Michael with Jamie O’Reilly
Songs of a Catholic Childhood
“Home for Christmas”
CD Release & Concert
Wednesday, December 19 AT 8 pm
Chief O’Neill’s Pub and Restaurant
3471 N. Elston Ave
Music Cover $20
Reservations PH: 773.583.3066
Dinner. Door prizes. Special guests.
chiefoneillspub.com
SAVE-THE-DATE
Songs of a Catholic Childhood “Midwinter”
Sun Jan 20 at 3 PM
Evanston SPACE
1245 Chicago Ave
Tickets: $18-$25
PH: 847.492.8860
http://www.evanstonspace.com/?Month=1&Year=2013
Michael performs The Snow Queen
FAMILY SHOW!
Saturday, Dec 22 at 7 PM
WFMT presents Snow Queen
Old Town School of Folk Music
Gary and Laura Maurer Concert Hall
4544 N Lincoln Ave
PH: 773.728.6000
www.oldtownschool.org/concerts
with Barbara Barrow, Linda M. Smith, Sue Demel and others
Now You Can Bring Michael’s Newest Recordings Home for the Holidays
Old Man Dancing
CD from Bird Avenue
Smith’s vivid and surprising imagination brings us another quirky
–and winning– cast of characters from true crime and pop culture.
NOW ONLINE
Digital downloads!
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“If “The Dutchman” was the only song Michael Smith ever wrote, I’d put him on my list of great songwriters. But Michael has consistently written many great songs over the past 40 years or so and cemented his place on the list many times over.
Some of the most recent examples of Michael’s great writing are on Old Man Dancing, his new CD and, once again, he uses the power of finely-crafted lyrics, elegant melodies and minimalist arrangements to draw the listener into a series of compelling story songs.” (Mike Regensteif, http://frfb.blogspot.com/)
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Coming December 15
The SONGS you remember in a heartfelt, liberating musical journey
Songs of a Catholic Childhood
with Michael Smith and Jamie O’Reilly
CD from J. O’Reilly Productions
“When you started singing, and singing those songs just like I remembered them, something opened up. Something good from the past joined with the present and we went on the journey with you”. (Z. Keithley, writer)
Songs of a Catholic Childhood
Recorded before a live audience. Michael, the oldest of six in the working class Irish/Italian neighborhoods of post WW-II New Jersey, and Jamie, a Baby Boomer from a huge artistic family in a small Illinois town – tell of life in parochial school, and sing solos and duets: Bring Flowers of the Fairest, Sr. Clarissa, Pagan Children, Tantum Ergo, When Blossoms Flowered Mid the Snow, Mary’s Boychild, She Would Sing the Kerry Dances, Sure Has Grown, I Fell Out of Love With Sin Today, Holy City, Bells of St. Mary’s, I Brought My Father With Me, Transfiguration, Song of Bernadette, Vaya con Dios, more
I saw Michael perform tonight in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada.
He brought tears to my eyes as he sang the Dutchman. He brought laughter to my spirit as he told his stories. He offers deep wisdom that connects. Thank you!
Thanks for the cd Looking forward to hearing it. “I’m an old man grieving”
B I