About this Event
A very special concert at Essex. Only 200 seated tickets available.
Doors at 7 with music at 8.
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.
“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.
BRIANA HORTON:
“Briana Horton is a vocalist and singer-songwriter who makes you feel welcomed from the minute she opens up her show. Her vocal range is incredible, and her ability to weave in and out of different musical styles leaves audiences wanting more. Briana has played hundreds of shows as a solo artist all across the finger lakes/New York area, and hundreds more in different bands throughout the years. She describes her artistry as soulful and somber, but her real goal is to make sure whoever is attending will have felt something special and genuine through the music that she plays.
Reflecting on her upbringing, she adds:
“I come from a family of nothing. However, in my pursuit to play and write music, I have an endless abundance to both give and receive. It’s an honor and a great gift to be the musician and person I am today—to be able to get on a stage and sing and move an entire room of people.”
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1048 University Ave, 1048 University Avenue, Rochester, United States
USD 42.19
