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200 Top Songs by Beau O’Reilly Chicago Arts Journal w Music Flash Edition “When the editors at CAJ suggested that I write about songs and music. I don’t think they or I knew what a momentous task it would turn out to be. I arbitrarily suggested two hundred favorites over fifty years, from  1963 on. It […]

200 Top Songs by Beau O’Reilly Chicago Arts Journal w Music Flash Edition “When the editors at CAJ suggested that I write about songs and music. I don’t think they or I knew what a momentous task it would turn out to be. I arbitrarily suggested two hundred favorites over fifty years, from  1963 on. It […]

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RootsFest 5: “Come & Get Your Love” Sat Aug 16 from 6 – 10 PM. Annual Backyard Music Party* at Roots Salon in Lincoln Square Jamie’s private address. Call 773-203-7661; email: roots@jamieoreilly.com! $12 advance.  $15 gate (*donation/annual fundraiser) $60 Member card alone. Card and admission $65. We have beer, lemonade and iced tea.  Bring chairs […]

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  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 […]

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Read about Jamie’s new cd project   JAMIE O’REILLY J. O’REILLY PRODUCTIONS AUGUST/SEPTEMBER E-NEWS BACK-TO-SCHOOL August 21, 2012 Dear Friends, Personally, I am happy to see this summer end.  Well, the blisteringly hot, hazy drag-of-a-summer, end. Not the lovely times celebrating daughter Meg’s engagement, my sister Dorothy’s Masters and new teaching job, and singing in […]

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Mix-er; noun – Somebody who combines various sound recordings to create the final soundtrack. An informal party held as a way of allowing a group of people to get to know each other. In The Reader March 18, 5 PM Concert in Honor of Winifred O’Reilly Roots n’ shoots. Elders and progeny. Then and now. The […]

Mix-er; noun – Somebody who combines various sound recordings to create the final soundtrack. An informal party held as a way of allowing a group of people to get to know each other. In The Reader March 18, 5 PM Concert in Honor of Winifred O’Reilly Roots n’ shoots. Elders and progeny. Then and now. The […]

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JAMIE O’REILLY J.O’REILLY PRODUCTIONS AUGUST  E-NEWS “The dreams told me if you visited there seasonally – between the squatters who find it in the rainy season and the icicles that stay for winter – it’s a rather pleasant little lake house, a cottage really, sitting in a clump of woods behind the new subdivision with […]