Marty O'Reilly Live at Lewis and Clark
Thu, Oct 12
|Helena
Cathartic, genre-bending Folk


Time & Location
Oct 12, 2023, 8:00 PM
Helena, 1535 Dodge Ave, Helena, MT 59601, USA
About The Event
Oct. 12th | 8 pm | $5 Cover
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.…