Holly O'Reilly

Flash back to 1996. Holly Figueroa (Now Holly O'Reilly) has left her youth in Ohio behind and put a life together in Washington State that combined the pleasures of family with her love for playing music.

Travelling often with her daughter and younger son, she grew a following one venue at a time. From the Bitter End in New York to the Sweetwater Saloon in San Francisco, she shared stages with Dan Fogelberg, Barbara Kessler, Rose Polenzani, and Caroline Aiken, or headed the bill herself.

Word spread faster when NPR's All Things Considered discovered her and twice gave her national exposure. Her albums -Three Chord Plea, Dream in Red, How It Is, Live in New York City - inspired comparisons to artists whose only similarities are excellence and individuality: Lucinda Williams, Ani DiFranco, Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris

Holly O'Reilly

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