Joe Reilly in Concert
Saturday February 15, 2025, 4:00pm
Admission
Free
Sponsored by
Lopez Island Library and Lopez Center
Bring the whole family to this free family friendly concert! It is being co-hosted by the Library and Lopez Center.
For those of you who have never seen Joe Reilly in concert before, you are in for a treat! He started coming to Lopez in the early 2010s, performing at Isabel's, house concerts, the library and finally the Center by 2016! It's been 6 years since his last show and we are excited to welcome him back!
Joe Reilly is a singer, songwriter, social worker, and educator from Michigan who writes songs from his heart. Joe's songs are playful, clever, engaging, joyful, and always have something meaningful to say. The core of his message is an invitation to heal our relationships with our selves, with each other, and with the earth. Joe uses his music to bring people together and build community across lines of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, age, and nationality.
Joe is Italian, Irish, and Native American (Cherokee) and was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan in a creative household by musical parents who encouraged him to find his own voice. Joe loves to inspire others to do the same and to water seeds of compassion, joy, wisdom, and peace in our collective consciousness through the sharing of his music. Joe has recorded eight albums of his music, including three children’s albums of environmental and community songs, Children of the Earth (2007), Let’s Go Outside (2011), and The Circle (2016). Children of the Earth was featured on National Public Radio's Living On Earth program in 2008. In 2011 Joe was selected as the official troubadour for National Get Outdoors Day.
We'd also like to invite kids to dress up as their favorite animal! We'll have extra costumes onsite too :)
For those of you who have never seen Joe Reilly in concert before, you are in for a treat! He started coming to Lopez in the early 2010s, performing at Isabel's, house concerts, the library and finally the Center by 2016! It's been 6 years since his last show and we are excited to welcome him back!
Joe Reilly is a singer, songwriter, social worker, and educator from Michigan who writes songs from his heart. Joe's songs are playful, clever, engaging, joyful, and always have something meaningful to say. The core of his message is an invitation to heal our relationships with our selves, with each other, and with the earth. Joe uses his music to bring people together and build community across lines of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, age, and nationality.
Joe is Italian, Irish, and Native American (Cherokee) and was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan in a creative household by musical parents who encouraged him to find his own voice. Joe loves to inspire others to do the same and to water seeds of compassion, joy, wisdom, and peace in our collective consciousness through the sharing of his music. Joe has recorded eight albums of his music, including three children’s albums of environmental and community songs, Children of the Earth (2007), Let’s Go Outside (2011), and The Circle (2016). Children of the Earth was featured on National Public Radio's Living On Earth program in 2008. In 2011 Joe was selected as the official troubadour for National Get Outdoors Day.
We'd also like to invite kids to dress up as their favorite animal! We'll have extra costumes onsite too :)