DLMC is partnering with Sudwerk Brewing Co. to bring the cathartic, genre-bending folk of Marty O’Reilly back to Davis, CA. He’ll be joined by equally hard to pin down by style LxttleBoyBlue Friday, October 25th in the Sudwerk Beer Hall. Doors open at 6pm. Click the link for tickets and details.
Fans might remember seeing Marty play the Davisphere a couple years ago, or maybe you caught LxttleBoyBlue’s set at Sudwerk with LabRats earlier this year… or maybe this is your first time. Either way, this promises to be a captivating and memorable show you won’t want to miss!
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.
LxttleBoyBlue leapt onto the local and global scene when a video of them accepting their diploma from UC Davis went viral, however their appeal isn’t limited to surprise moments of exuberance. Blue is a singer, songwriter, musician, and advocate who spans genres as easily as they spread their own unique style and love for creativity. It’s impossible not to find joy and curiosity in what they do, so get there early and catch their set!