Chicago’s beloved musical duo brings you the Songs you remember in a liberating musical journey!
Jamie O’Reilly & Michael Smith
Songs of a Catholic Childhood
“Midwinter”
Sunday, January 20 at 3 PM
Evanston SPACE
1245 Chicago
Evanston, Il
PH 847.492.8860
Tickets $18-$25
www.evanstonspace.com
CONCERT TICKETS can be purchased as a gift through our “SONGS” CD release campaign. We will raffle off an invitation for two to the VERY VIP MARDI GRAS (a $200 value) at the concert. Brunch menu available at the Union Restaurant. Free parking on the street.
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Hear samples of the songs and stories!
“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”.
(-Zoe Keithley, writer)
“I just enjoyed your show for the second time.
Even as a recording, it’s authentically touching.
And gets better and better as it goes along.
Excellent writing and nice quiet comic timing–
and then there’s your lovely voice.
I hope a million people hear this work.
I’m starting with my father who grew
up as an school boy, altar boy, choir boy et al at
St. Anne’s Parish, Cleveland Heights.” – Colleen F.
In solos and duets, Smith and
O’Reilly perform a winning
group of songs, and talk about
life in parochial schools during
their “formative” years.
His –as the eldest of 6, in the
working class Irish/Italian
neighborhoods of post-WW-II
New Jersey, in the ’40s, and ’50s.
Hers – as the 4th-girl-in-the-middle of a family of 14 kids, in a small Illinois town during the post-Vatican II,
Baby-Boom era of the ’60s.
READ MORE ABOUT SONGS OF A CATHOLIC CHILDHOOD
I just ordered two copies of the CD. One for me and another for my brother. We are Irish Catholics from the Chicago ‘burbs. Can’t wait to hear this! Maybe Michael will sing “Sister Clarissa” in Mt. Morris 1/12/13 (hint-hint)