Songs and Stories of Ireland w/Enda Reilly

Name: Songs and Stories of Ireland w/Enda Reilly
Start: 2026-03-14T14:00:00-04:00
Location: 10411 Merrill Rd, Hamburg, MI, United States, Michigan 48189

Schedule

Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

10411 Merrill Rd, Hamburg, MI, United States, Michigan 48189 | Whitmore Lake, MI

Registration is required for this event. Please go to https://hamburglibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/songs-and-stories-of-ireland-w-enda-reilly/ to sign up.
A weather forecast from the past; a mysterious Viking invasion; and a visit to the mythical Isle of Hy-Brasil — these are just some of the stories brought to life in Irish songwriter Enda Reilly’s music. With intricate guitar-playing, vocal prowess and a cross-cultural sensibility, Reilly brings the essence of Ireland to American audiences. His latest album, Hy-Brasil, features newly-penned folk songs sung in both English and Irish Gaelic. “There’s a haunting magic at work here,” raves Folkwords Magazine, and the artistic director of the Milwaukee Irish Festival calls Reilly, “a champion of the Gaelic language.” From the ephemeral lakes of a Yeats’ poem to the 16th century ship where Grace O'Malley ruled as the “pirate queen,” Reilly brings the mythic down to earth.
Not only a songmaker and touring artist, Reilly is also an enthusiastic educator and ambassador of Irish culture. Now based in Michigan, he has taught workshops at countless libraries across the Midwest and can often be found telling stories and sharing songs on many an Irish festival’s Heritage Stage. Reilly loves to provide the cultural context for the music he plays through spellbinding stories and folkloric history. The director of the Paw Paw Library describes Reilly’s Songs and Stories of Ireland program as “the perfect combination of music, personal storytelling, and Irish history,” and director of the Roseville Library says it “was one of our best-attended programs in the past year, and — no exaggeration — patrons were raving about it.”