St Patrick's Day - The Celtic Songwriter Circle
Ryan O'Reilly
Irish & Scottish songs old and new, traditional and modern, classic and original, performed in a Nashville-inspired ‘In-The-Round’ style.
Berlin-based Celts – Ryan O’Reilly, Calum Bolland, & Simon Maguire will share the stage to perform the rebel, drinking, romantic, and bittersweet émigré songs that Scotland and Ireland are famous for, plus original songs inspired by their Caledonian and Hibernian roots.
March 17th is Saint Patrick’s Day, so expect a few songs in his honour and prepare your drinking arm as plenty of the songs from The Celtic Songwriter Circle will require raising a class in the air as you close your eyes and sing along.
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Ryan O'Reilly, from Winchester, UK, is a songwriter whose Irish parentage & English upbringing combine to create a passionate storyteller. A meandering path began with performing open-mics in Toronto as a teen, studying poetry in Dublin, street-performing on London’s Portobello Road & moving to Berlin in 2015. Ryan began gaining a reputation from fan-booked tours across Europe & Canada, also learning his trade opening tours for the likes of Arkells & Lissie, joining Anaïs Mitchell on-stage and headlining shows with his band and solo. Ryan's first album The Northern Line was released via Qatar’s first indie label (DNA) November, The One & Sometimes Things Just Happen made German radio charts. I Can't Stand the Sound (2018) was recorded in a cinema in Brooklyn with Toronto’s Dwayne Gretzky. Third album Other Plans was released May 2023, produced by Spencer Cullum & David Granshaw, recorded at Chale Abbey via Bicycle Path Productions.
Recently Ryan has written music featured in: TV - 'Station 19'(2022), 'McDonald & Dobbs' (2022), 'After The Flood' (2024) Film - 'Doctor Jekyll' (2023)
And Co-Written: 'Trying To Break Your Heart' by Flyte 'Still Alive', 'a moment in the sun', 'same old eyes', 'seasons' by Amistat 'Silence' (feat. Amistat) by Trivecta 'Girl in White' by Naviband 'Selfish', 'Me & Your Dog' & 'Last Time' by Adam Barnes 'The Little Sadness', 'Awake in Berlin', 'Losing from Within' by Hayley Reardon and 'Postcard' by True Rose
