The Acorn Theater in Three Oaks is planning a St. Patrick’s Day celebration featuring musician Ike Reilly. The Acorn tells us more:
The “King of Music Row” Ike Reilly and his band return to The Acorn for a St. Patrick’s Day Celebration on Friday, March 17, 2023.
The Acorn
107 Generations Drive, Three Oaks, MI 49128
The Acorn St. Patrick’s Day Celebration Featuring The Ike Reilly
Assassination
Friday, March 17, 2023
8pm ET | Doors open at 7pm ET
Tickets available at acornlive.org
General Admission $30 Advance | $35 Day of Show
Reserved Seating Available $55 Advance | $60 Day of Show
The “King of Music Row” Ike Reilly and his band return to The Acorn with their gritty and hard-driving music for a St. Patrick’s Day Celebration. The New York Times called the band one of the best live bands in America.
Since his explosive major label debut, Salesmen and Racists, Ike Reilly has been creating rebellious punk/folk/country/blues-influenced rock ’n’ roll records that are poetic and cinematic. Critical praise for his work has been plentiful, and he has garnered a wildly loyal fan base — from faithful fans in the dirty bars and rock clubs in the middle of nowhere to legendary authors.
About the Artist:
“I’m the king of Music Row,” says Ike Reilly. Standing on the stoop of his recording studio with his arms wide open, the songwriter claims the whole street as his musical kingdom. For the former gravedigger and doorman, Music Row is just one house. It’s the 100-year-old bungalow wedged between a nail salon and an insurance agency in Libertyville, Illinois. This is where Reilly now makes his records.
Libertyville is about 38 miles north of Chicago, and it’s the hometown of Marlon Brando, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Adam Jones of Tool, Maureen Herman of Babes in Toyland, and many other successful artists and musicians. These folks have all fled town. Reilly never left. He has lived there his entire life, and he has churned out song after song, album after album, all the while maintaining a seemingly together family life and touring America both as a lone troubadour and while leading his greasy band, The Ike Reilly Assassination. While Libertyville certainly appears idyllic, the stories that Reilly mines from it, and from people and
places all over the world, clearly are not. Tom Morello, also a Libertyville native, says, “These homogeneous Midwestern towns like Libertyville can forge rebels, and Ike Reilly is just that. He’s somebody who sees through the veil of bullsh*t, and you can hear it in all his songs.”
Since his explosive major label debut, Salesmen and Racists, Reilly has been creating rebellious punk/folk/country/blues-influenced rock ’n’ roll records that are poetic and cinematic. Critical praise for his work has been plentiful, and he has garnered a wildly loyal fan base — from faithful fans in the dirty bars and rock clubs in the middle of nowhere to legendary authors.
Reilly’s songs have a unique universality that affects people. Author Stephen King wrote that Reilly’s travel band saga, “Boltcutter,” was “the best new song to come out of the Trump era.” The New York Times called Reilly’s longtime band, The Assassination, one of the best live bands in America, and once again they show their dexterity and growth on Reilly’s new offering, Because the Angels.
