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Melanie O’reilly | Ireland’s First Lady of Song
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Dublin, Ireland born Melanie O'Reilly has become one of Ireland’s internationally known jazz singers. Now based in Wexford, she has performed extensively throughout France, Britain, Ireland, Wales, Norway, and the USA, including representing Ireland at the Schoenburg Hall Los Angeles and again at the European Heritage Festival in Normandy in 2019. She was a Visiting Scholar /Musician in Residence at UC Berkeley's Celtic Studies and received an award for "Artist with Extraordinary ability” by the US. While in the Bay Area, she was known as a Bay Area Treasure. While in CA recently, she sang at Keys Jazz Bistro in SF, with the SImon Rowe Organ Trio and has performed regularly with the Bay Area jazz pianist legend Frank Martin. also with George Brooks, Fred Randolph, Jack Dorsey, Deszon Clairbourne, John R Burr. The late Larry Coryell was special guest on her celtic jazz album Enchanted Island. She recently was Jazz Artist in Residence at Wexford Arts Centre, created Jazz Appreciation and Outreach series, performed her own unique song compositions for Culture Night Wexford, and has performed a special Swing Jazz in the Afternoon series in Ireland. She is the creator and host of the award-winning radio series "Jazz on the Bay", originally broadcast on RTE Radio 1, which is has been broadcast monthly on the California jazz station KCSM.org
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