Ryan O'Reilly

Ryan O'Reilly, from Winchester, UK, is a songwriter whose Irish parentage & English upbringing combine to create a passionate storyteller. A meandering path began with performing open-mics in Toronto as a teen, studying poetry in Dublin, street-performing on London’s Portobello Road & moving to Berlin in 2015.
Ryan began gaining a reputation from fan-booked tours across Europe & Canada, also learning his trade opening tours for the likes of Arkells & Lissie, joining artists like Tift Merritt & Anaïs Mitchell on-stage and embarking on tours of Europe & Canada with The O'Pears, Adam Barnes, Jadea Kelly & Hayley Reardon.
Ryan's first album The Northern Line was released via Qatar’s first indie label (DNA) November, The One & Sometimes Things Just Happen made German radio charts. I Can't Stand the Sound (2018) was recorded in a cinema in Brooklyn with Toronto’s Dwayne Gretzky. Third album Other Plans was released May 2023, produced by Spencer Cullum & David Granshaw, recorded at Chale Abbey via Bicycle Path Productions.

A prolific writer, Ryan has co-written:
Trying To Break Your Heart by Flyte
Still Alive, a moment in the sun by Amistat
Silence (feat. Amistat) by Trivecta
Girl in White by NAVIBAND
Selfish, Me & Your Dog & Last Time by Adam Barnes
Every Little Piece of You by Jadea Kelly (featured on ABC’s Station 19, S6 Ep2)
The Little Sadness, Awake in Berlin, Losing from Within by Hayley Reardon
Postcard by True Rose