Marty O’Reilly Concert at Sudwerk

This season, Sudwerk’s bringing some bigger names for ticketed concerts!

Davis Live Music Collective presents Marty O’Reilly on Saturday 10/25 at 7pm. Marty O’Reilly’s songs can’t be contained in the labels of blues, folk, and soul, but they really push through all of those boundaries to create a unique sound.

And starting off the show is LxttleBoyBlue– a rising star in the music scene who made waves as a UC Davis alum. You won’t want to miss this show.

Presale tickets are $15, and at the door tickets are $20. Tickets: https://bit.ly/3BJRa4V

This show takes place in the Sudwerk Beer Hall.

Address: 2001 2nd Street, Davis, CA

About Marty O’Reilly

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.