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“All the intelligence and talent in the world can’t make a singer.
The voice is a wild thing. It can’t be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.” (Willa Cather, Song of the Lark)
“She realized that there were a great many trains dashing east and west on the face of the continent that night, and that they all carried young people who meant to have things.
But the difference was that she was going to get them! That was all.
Let people try to stop her!” (Song of the Lark)
Listen to Jamie sing I Know Where I’m Going
HerStory, too
I’m honoring one of my favorite writers Willa Cather for Women’s History Month. Her novel, Song of the Lark (named for the painting at the Art Institute) is quoted in Tough Broads & Tender Lasses, our program this Thursday March 23, at the Cliff Dwellers on Michigan Ave. The venerable arts club is a few doors away from where fictional character Thea sang, and where I first studied voice.
Read Song of the Lark. Call of the City, my archived blog.
https://www.jamieoreilly.com/song-of-the-lark-call-of-the-city/
Roots Salon Early Spring
Jamie sings with
John Erickson on piano
Sunday, March 26 at 7 PM
Tre Kronor Swedish Bistro
3258 West Foster Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
Judi Cogan Heikes, Belinda Bremner, Cecilie O’Reilly and Diane Dorsey read their own work. Maureen Tolman Flannery is the featured poet.
Reservations online at event page:
https://www.jamieoreilly.com/events/2023-03-26/
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Jamie O’Reilly Concerts & Programs
Thursday, March 23
The Cliff Dwellers
200 S. Michigan Ave 22nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60604
RSVP to Sally Farmer reservations@cliff-chicago.org
or call (312) 922-8080
https://cliff-chicago.org/
Jamie’s event page: https://www.jamieoreilly.com/events/2023-03-23/
Cash Bar: opens at 5:00 PM. Dinner: 6:00 PM. Program: 7:15 PM.
Dinner & program: $48, Program only (limited seating): $20
Parking at 17 E. Adams (discounted with coupon held at the bar).
Jamie O’Reilly’s Roots Salon Early Spring
Sunday, March 26 at 7 PM
Tre Kronor Swedish Bistro
3258 West Foster Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
$23 Admission
Reservations online at event page:
https://www.jamieoreilly.com/events/2023-03-26/
Email roots@jamieoreilly.com
With John Erickson on piano. Judi Cogan Heikes, Belinda Bremner, Cecilie O’Reilly and Diane Dorsey are Readers. Maureen Tolman Flannery is the featured poet. Seasonal Menu. BYOB. Easy parking.
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In Old Chicago: Stories & Songs of a Beloved City
Saturday, April 29
7:00 PM Cocktails; 7:45 PM Concert
Featuring Jamie O’Reilly
Rare Nest Gallery
3433 N Kedvale
Chicago, IL 60641
PH (708) 616-8671
Information: keith@rarenestgallery.com
Reserve a place online: https://www.jamieoreilly.com/events/2023-04-29/
$35 Admission includes pre-concert cocktails.
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Sunday May 7 at 7 PM
Roots Mothers & Daughters Salon
Tre Kronor Swedish Bistro
3258 West Foster Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
$25 Admission
Reservations online at event page:
https://www.jamieoreilly.com/events/2023-05-07/
Jamie O’Reilly is joined by her daughters Meg Broz and Nia O’Reilly Amandes. John Erickson, and piano. Seasonal Menu. BYOB. Easy parking.
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NEW! Friday, July 7 2 7 PM
Off Square Music and the Woodstock Folk Festival Present
Jamie O’Reilly & Co
In Old Chicago: Stories & Songs of a Beloved City
Musical Reading at Stage Left Cafe
125 West Van Buren Street
Woodstock, lL
https://www.jamieoreilly.com/events/jamie-oreilly-at-off-square-with-in-old-chicago/
Watch for updates here: https://www.jamieoreilly.com/events/
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Poster image Iwona Biedermann
Tough Broads poster Nia O’Reilly Amandes
Top old photo is Mame O’Reilly and her cousins, early 1900s
Courtesy of Kiki O’Reilly Sitkiewicz
Thanks this month to Barbara Tucker Phillips. Willem O’Reilly, Karen Rigotti, and Eve Moran
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