Joe Reilly is a singer, songwriter, and social worker 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 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.

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