Marty O’Reilly w/ Laura Fox & Shaun Sullivan – Portsmouth, NH

Marty O’Reilly w/ Laura Fox & Shaun Sullivan – Portsmouth, NH

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Don’t miss this upcoming 2024 Local Event in Portsmouth, NH. Happening on Sunday, November 17, 2024 at The Press Room – Upstairs. Doors open at 6:00 PM.

Cathartic, genre-bending folk.

Marty O’Reilly w/ Laura Fox & Shaun Sullivan

Sun 11/17

5pm doors/6pm show

18+ | $12 adv./$15 day of

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.

Laura Fox is a folk/soul singer-songwriter from southern Maine. An intimate and engaging performer, she writes about love, the lack thereof, and the in-between.

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Additional Details

Event ID - 993534036047

Event Venue - The Press Room - Upstairs

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Date And Time

Sunday, November 17th, 2024 @ 06:00 PM
 

Venue

The Press Room - Upstairs
 

Location

77 Daniel Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801
 

Event Types

Concert or Performance
 

Event Category

New Hampshire

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