February 15, Roots Salon LOVESONGS Valentine’s Concert The Jamie O’Reilly Trio With Jamie O’Reilly, vocals Peter Swenson and Michael Smith, guitars Saturday, Feb 15 at 8 PM Roots Salon* About the Jamie O’Reilly (link)  Trio       Jamie O’Reilly Trio Willa Moore with Ron Scroggin opens $20 donation. Singles encouraged, no date required. Dessert and chocolates will be […]

February 15, Roots Salon LOVESONGS Valentine’s Concert The Jamie O’Reilly Trio With Jamie O’Reilly, vocals Peter Swenson and Michael Smith, guitars Saturday, Feb 15 at 8 PM Roots Salon* About the Jamie O’Reilly (link)  Trio       Jamie O’Reilly Trio Willa Moore with Ron Scroggin opens $20 donation. Singles encouraged, no date required. Dessert and chocolates will be […]

Vintage* Rogues “A Rogues Christmas” Jamie & the Rogues with Cecilie O’Reilly (Listen. Click links) Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming/Jamie O’Reilly & The Rogues A Cradle in Bethlehem.Jamie O’Reilly White Christmas/Jamie O’Reilly & The Rogues Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas/Jamie O’Reilly & The Rogues (*Unreleased recording. Timothy Powell, engineer. Live at Fitzgerald’s 1989, […]

Vintage* Rogues “A Rogues Christmas” Jamie & the Rogues with Cecilie O’Reilly (Listen. Click links) Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming/Jamie O’Reilly & The Rogues A Cradle in Bethlehem.Jamie O’Reilly White Christmas/Jamie O’Reilly & The Rogues Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas/Jamie O’Reilly & The Rogues (*Unreleased recording. Timothy Powell, engineer. Live at Fitzgerald’s 1989, […]

Jamie Returns to the Irish Heritage Center with Christmas and holiday stories & songs Celtic Women International Holiday Meeting Tuesday, Nov 19 7 – 9 PM Talk begins at 7:30. $5 or donation of a treat at the door Irish American Heritage Center 4626 N Knox, Chicago Jamie’s tells (funny) stories of singing ’round the […]

Jamie Returns to the Irish Heritage Center with Christmas and holiday stories & songs Celtic Women International Holiday Meeting Tuesday, Nov 19 7 – 9 PM Talk begins at 7:30. $5 or donation of a treat at the door Irish American Heritage Center 4626 N Knox, Chicago Jamie’s tells (funny) stories of singing ’round the […]

    Cherry blossoms lose their bloom in the autumn You lost your cool in the fall You stumbled and you fell right down to the bottom Nobody cared at all But for me You would have stood there with egg on your face The bitter taste of old champagne Up to your neck in […]

  Michael Smith, Songwriter Summer Performances June, July, August “Michael Smith, a truly remarkable songwriter, teaches his craft to a roomful of students at a songwriting workshop in The Studios at SPACE. After the class, he performed his gorgeous, intricate, and often hilarious songs to a sold out crowd. An incredible night with this gifted […]

Bring flowers of the rarest Bring blossoms the fairest, from garden and woodland and hillside and dale; our full hearts are swelling, our glad voices telling the praise of the loveliest rose of the vale.   LISTEN On This Day O Beautiful Mother Bring Flowers of the Fairest (from Songs of a Catholic Childhood) On […]

Bring flowers of the rarest Bring blossoms the fairest, from garden and woodland and hillside and dale; our full hearts are swelling, our glad voices telling the praise of the loveliest rose of the vale.   LISTEN On This Day O Beautiful Mother Bring Flowers of the Fairest (from Songs of a Catholic Childhood) On […]

  Saturday, April 27 at 8 PM And the Poet Sang: Songs of Spring with Michael Smith, Jamie O’Reilly & Peter Swenson and reading and singing  poetry:  Maureen Connolly, Willa Moore, Anne Schultz and Cecilie O’Reilly At: Roots Salon (private residence in Lincoln Square) $20 donation or-pay-what you can BYOB. Dessert will be served. Call […]

 If you’d like to receive this newsletter as an email, please send a note to roots@jamieoreilly.com. JAMIE O’REILLY J. OREILLY PRODUCTIONS SPRING E-NEWS Return of the Salonniere Roots Salon reopening Upcoming shows April SONGS Patron’s Event with Robert McClory Songs-on-the-Road Raue Center show For Easter week.  The Holy City and Bells of St Mary’s. Jamie […]

 If you’d like to receive this newsletter as an email, please send a note to roots@jamieoreilly.com. JAMIE O’REILLY J. OREILLY PRODUCTIONS SPRING E-NEWS Return of the Salonniere Roots Salon reopening Upcoming shows April SONGS Patron’s Event with Robert McClory Songs-on-the-Road Raue Center show For Easter week.  The Holy City and Bells of St Mary’s. Jamie […]