Marty O'Reilly LIVE at Blue House Stage

Join us on Friday July 19th as we welcome Marty O'Reilly to Blue House Stage! We can't wait to see you to gather together to enjoy live music, joy, and one another in the heart of the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains.

Bring your blanket and/or your lawn chair and make yourself at home. Farm goods, snacks, and libations for purchase (NOTE there will NOT be a full food popup - you're welcome to bring your own picnic!). Feel free to meander through the vineyard, coo with the chickens, snuggle the kitties, and get some love from our farm doggies Otis and Ozzy.

Marty O'Reilly - www.martyoreilly.com

No pets please (we have plenty)!

Doors 6:00pm

Show 7:00pm

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Mary O'Reilly

Explaining Marty O’Reilly’s music is like describing a dream. It feels familiar, but at the same time unchartered. His songs sound bluesy but not blues, folk but not folk, soulful but not soul. Marty’s voice is beautiful and unique, his lyrics stark yet lush over gritty electrified guitar, melding beautifully into genre-defying music within the vast definitions of Americana. One can hear an urgency and complexity in the songs, expressing something elemental and perhaps contradictory: love and anger, joy and pain, real and imagined.

The live performance is at the core of Marty’s projects. On stage, whether accompanied by a band, or alone, he enters a trance and the music is born again as something new every night. It’s what his followers call “magic”. He goes from raw gospel blues to cinematic epics, from heavy driving grooves to delicately arranged folk songs. Marty leaves the stage out of breath and sweaty, his audience in awe. It's hard to describe, impossible to categorize. Yet people who know the music will try to explain it to you, just as you might struggle to explain a dream in the morning. The details might slip away as you recount them, but the feeling remains.

“I started playing music as medicine for myself to feel good and digest some melancholy,” Marty leaves off. “Over time, I realized if music makes me feel good, the people around me who become a part of it will feel good too. It connects us on the same wavelength. I hope to give the world something real and refreshing.

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