Jazz on a Saturday Night with Melanie O'Reilly & Trio

About this event

Melanie O'Reilly & Trio:  "Jazz on a Saturday Night " with Kevin Lawlor - Drums ,  Cian Boylan - Piano,  Peter Vogelaar - Bass

Please note that show starts at 7pm sharp - Doors open 6:30pm

We’re delighted to welcome you all back to Wexford Arts Centre. Things will look and feel a bit different. including our opening hours and access. Please read our Covid Protocol before visiting us. 

Please note that this event will take place under current social distancing measurements as per Government guidelines.

International jazz singer Melanie O'Reilly  and her band return for another exciting night of vocal jazz! - Great American Songbook standards mixed with Melanie's own original Celtic Jazz sound which she has developed as her unique trademark, creating a special night not to be missed!  For  this concert she and her ensemble will be delighting Wexford audiences featuring some of the Swing songs that were part of Melanie's recent Jazz Appreciation series she devised and presented in affiliation with Wexford Arts Centre, entitled "Singers of the Swing Era ".  She is joined by her stellar trio, the highly acclaimed  Kevin Lawlor - drums,  Peter Voegeler-bass,  Myles Drennan -piano.

“Melanie swings and shimmers ….A thoroughly modern take on the jazz tradition…. utterly transformative”.

Ken Kubernik ,The Music Connection.

"…O’Reilly makes every number her own, gliding effortlessly through rhythmic backbeats…sultry…soulful in virtuoso style.”

Edinburgh Fringe Festival/Unlimited Media 

“Extraordinary…whether she sings Irish traditional, jazz or Jacques Prevert.” 

Le Telegramme 

Melanie, originally from Dublin, who has made her base in Wexford, is an international figure in the world of  vocal jazz, having performed in venues including The Lincoln Center NY, the Edinburgh International Festival, the National Concert Hall Dublin, the Cork Jazz Festival,  the World Music Festival “d’Ici et D’Ailleurs” in France, the Black Cat Jazz Club in  San Francisco,  the Take 5 Jazz Club at Pacific Univ. CA, and she has represented Ireland at the European Union Jazz Festival at Schoenberg Hall Los Angeles.

She has recently been Artist in Residence at La Mue Residency Normandy and she is also the creator and host of the PPI award-winning series “Jazz on the Bay”, broadcast on RTE Radio 1. Melanie and her trio represented Wexford & Ireland at the 2019 European Heritage Weekend in Normandy as "Guests of Honour".  More recently, Melanie performed her Celtic Jazz songs as part of a music & dance show called Joy , in France and she was also invited to perform her own original songs as Musical Interlude for UNA-SF Charter Day,  the international  commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, for which she was awarded the Certificate of Honour by the UN. Her music has been featured on America's PBS TV,  and the Bay Area's Jazz station KCSM and she is also a renowned and committed music educator.

www.melanieoreilly.com