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JAMIE O’REILLY Vocalist, Producer, Writer Website: www.jamieoreilly.com Year/Job Project Title, Venue, Collaborators * denotes a Commission February, 2013 And the Poet Sang, Poetry Foundation, Chicago Featured Vocalist with Michael Smith, Jenny Magnus, Beau O!Reilly 2011!Ongoing Songs of A Catholic Childhood "commission# Featured Vocalist with Michael Smith, Mayne Stage, Chief O!Neill!s Pub Co-Writer/Producer 2007!Ongoing Root Salon, An Artist Gathering Space Salonnaire/Host Women!s Salon, monthly; Roots Fest annually 2007!2011 Women"s Media Group, The Feminist Lens Creative Director Radio series on WFMT Fine Arts Radio 98.7 2004!Ongoing Jamie O"Reilly, soloist and The Jamie O"Reilly Trio Vocalist !sample list" SPACE, Chicago Cultural Center, Old Town School of Folk Music, Ganz Hall: Roosevelt University, Maxim!s, FitzGerald$s/Berwyn, Skokie Public Library, World Folk Music Co/Beverly, Woodstock Folk Festival, Irish American Heritage Center, University Club/Chicago, Hogeye Folk Concerts, Celticfest/Grant Park, ACME Arts, People!s Music School/Chicago, Box Factory for Arts, Center Portion Cabaret, Links Hall, Davenport!s, Mostly Music Association 1997!Ongoing Pasiones: Songs of the Spanish Civil War 1936!1939* Featured Performer Musical Cabaret and Live Compact Disc recording, !sample list" Producer "2011# portoluz: WPA 2.0 The Brand New Deal, "2011# WFMT Folkstage, Athenaeum Theater Oak Park Public Library Hemingway 2007 Series, Humanities West/San Francisco 100 Years in Barcelona, Yale University with Aura of the Cause Exhibit, Rockford Friends of Folk, ALBA National Conferences, "with Studs Terkel# New York, San Francisco, Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, Shouts from the Wall Poster Exhibit: Washington Library/Chicago, Zollner Gallery/Bethlehem, PA, Lorca Centenary: Chicago Cultural Center, Brecht Centenary: Center for Western European Studies/Kalamazoo, MI 2009!Ongoing Tying Up Loose Ends, Stories of Undying Love Director/Co-writer Touring play on hospice, by Catherine Gallogly 2001!Ongoing The Gift of the Magi, Americana Concert* Featured Performer 2010, 11, 12 with Rick Kogan SPACE, WFMT Radio Folkstage, Co-Writer World Folk Concerts, Woodstock Opera House, Box Factory Producer for the Arts: St. Joseph, MI, FitzGerald!s, Raue Center for the Arts, Crystal Lake, Oak Park Public Library, Irish American Heritage Center, Commission: Americana ballet CD project 1 2005!2009 Imperfect Balance: Creating Art Out of Trauma Vocalist/Producer Women!s Arts Series, Irish American Heritage Center Writer/Performer Featured Presenter for %Transcending Trauma: The Power of Art Therapy& IL Art Therapy Conference at SAIC Chicago 2006 Links Hall: Radiant Darkness, Shadow Puppet Festival Featured Vocalist The Golden Comb, with puppeteer Jennifer Friedrich 2004!2007 Songs of The Kerry Madwoman, Concert, CD Project Featured Vocalist Song Cycle for Soprano, by Patricia Monaghan & Michael Producer Smith, with Peter Swenson, Irish American Heritage Center "as chamber opera# Prop Thtr, Skokie Public Library, Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, Victory Gardens Theater 2004!2005 Homefront: Silenced Voices of War, *Humanities Project Featured Vocalist Patricia Monaghan: Author, Michael Smith: Composer Director/PR DePaul University Humanities Center "Fellowship and Grant#, Chicago Humanities Festival: Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University 2005 Benefit Concert for African Refugee Resettlement Featured Vocalist Jamie O$Reilly & the Rogues Reunion Concert Producer Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago 2003 Columbia College Chicago, Hokin Gallery Series: Featured Vocalist Strong Women, Riveting Art: Heart of a Woman 1999!2002 Chicago Humanities Festivals: from New & Old !#99", Featured Performer Looking Through an Irish Window with Cecilie O!Reilly Producer Words & Pictures, !#01" Hello Dali with Michael Smith Co-Creator Brains & Beauty, !#02" The Golden Comb with Jennifer Friedrich, Home & Away, !#05# Homefront with P. Monaghan 2002 Irish Music in America Cultural Forum* Featured Vocalist Irish Vaudeville Concert, the Irish American Creator Heritage Center, Irish American Teachers Association Featured Lecturer %One of Our Own& Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago 1999!2001 Scarlet Confessions: The Infamous and the Innocent Featured Performer Confessions in legend and folksong Co-Writer Musical Revue with Anne Hills, Michael Smith, Paul Amandes Producer Victory Gardens Theater, Rhino Festival, Lunar Cabaret, Storefront Theater, FitzGerald!s, WFMT!s Folkstage 1999!2000 Creature Winds, Avant!Choral Work for Four Voices Featured Vocalist Written by Bryn Magnus, Music by Michael Zerang Links Hall, Lunar Cabaret, Experimental Sounds Studio 1998!2001 Hello Dali: From the Sublime to the Surreal * Featured Performer Musical Revue, World Premiere: Victory Gardens Theater, Co-Writer After Dark Awards: Outstanding New Work and Ensemble, Producer Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Lunar Cabaret, Cabaret, Theatre on the Lake 1990!Ongoing Historical Programs "sample list# Songs of the Turn of the Featured Vocalist Century Songs in The Parlor 1890-1930* Chicago $93, Centenary Producer of The Columbian Exposition*, Prairie Passage: Illinois Michigan Canal Sesquicentennial!* Facing History: The Irish & the Famine 2 MUSICAL RECORDINGS Songs of a Catholic Childhood, Jamie O!Reilly/Michael Smith, in progress Spain in My Heart: Bear Family Records Germany, compilation, 2012 SongpaintingPproject, Jamie O!Reilly, Series of singles on I-Tunes, current Vinegar Man, Jamie O!Reilly & Friends, 2009 Souvenir, Jamie O"Reilly Trio Cabaret Songs, 2008 Red is the Rose, chosen WFMT Midnight Special Best Love songs Songs of the Kerry Madwoman, Song Cycle for Voice & Chamber Ensemble Jamie O"Reilly & the Rogues, Irish Folk Compilation CD, Reissue, 2005 Banks of the Roses, Bangers & Ballads, recorded live and at WFMT, '86-!89 Heart of A Woman, Compilation, Jamie/ live & studio recordings, 1986-2003 Michael Smith"s The Gift of the Magi, an Americana Ballet, 2003 With Jamie, Michael Smith and string ensemble Scarlet Confessions, American Folk Cabaret, live/ WFMT Folkstage, 2000 Swimming Deeper, Jamie O!Reilly, Contemporary Folk, 2001 Solo with Michael Smith, composer, accompanist Pasiones # Songs of the Spanish Civil War: 1936!1939, 1997 Folk Cabaret with Michael Smith. Research - ALBA/SCW Veterans The Way the Heart is Sculpted, Folk-Pop, 1993 With Peter Swenson and David Van Delinder, Singer/Songwriters Jamie O"Reilly with Peter Swenson, Irish Art and Folks Songs, WFMT, 1984 RADIO Interviews/Shows: WGN Radio %Rick Kogan!s The Sunday Papers&, and Brian Noonan, WNUR: The Folk Show, WDCB: Folk Festival, WBEZ Public Radio, WFMT %Midnight Special& and %Folkstage& Broadcasts, Studs Terkel Centenary International Radio: BBC Wales, Montreal, CN, Babstadt, Germany US Radio Play "sample list#: WDCB: Glen Ellyn WHPK: Hyde Park, WZRD, Chicago, WNUR: Evanston, WAIT: Crystal Lake, KZSC: Santa Cruz, CA, WDIY- FM: Allentown, PA KTRU: Houston, TX, KEOS: Houston, TX, WLRN: Miami, FL WXOU: Auburn Hills, MI, KOPN: Columbia, MO TV/VIDEO Film: Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War, Interviews on television: WTTW, Chicago Tonight, Artbeat, Video: This is Chicago Wilderness, Chicago Zoological Society, The Courtship of Carl Sandburg, Sandburg Birthplace Jamie O’Reilly Cell/Text 773.203.7661; email [email protected] 3.