Jill Maria is a musician with very diverse tastes, who performs at area clubs and venues and participates in a number of regional open mics and jams, and is available to provide entertainment at your venue for your event, weddings, wedding receptions .
She can easily provide classical, or formal music at a wedding, and then switch gears to fun stuff for a reception, whether it is time to sit in the corner and make soft music, or bring on the full band!
Instrumentation may include:
- Voice and Solo Guitar
- Instrumental Acoustic and Classical Guitar
- Voice, Guitar, Bass, Percussion
- Voice, Guitar, Percussion
- Voice, Keyboards
- Classical Guitar and Flute
- Classical Guitar, Flute, Clarinet
- or many other combinations depending upon your needs
Her eclectic music tastes will take you through the years just take a look at her partial songlist! Below
Covers
I got to sit in with some friends the other day for this one 😉
Originals
Autumn Song This one started out as a Haiku…
Do You Know? A silly song inspired by my cat that calls on the old country of Buck Owens.
Fun…. “Tell Me Why/Mother Pin a Rose on Me”
Two recordings of a song I wrote years ago for my Mother. I was always thankful I got to sing this to her while I was living. I sang it to her the night I made my first monastic vows.
Waltz for Rosemarie II from Jill Maria Murdy on Vimeo.
A Waltz for Mother from Jill Maria Murdy on Vimeo.
It’s Raining Outside……
One I wrote a hundred years ago 🙂
Partial Song List
| A Life That’s Good | Lennon Maisey/Nashville |
| Across the Universe | Beatles |
| All I Could Do Was Cry | Etta James |
| All My Loving | Beatles |
| Alberta | Eric Clapton/Leadbelly |
| Always | George Gershwin |
| Angel | Sarah Mclaulin |
| Angel of the Morning | Juice Newton, Marilee Rush |
| Baby Can I Hold You | Tracy Chapman |
| Bad Moon A Rising | CCR |
| Because of You | Kelly Clarkson |
| Being Alive | Company |
| Before You Accuse Me | Eric Clapton/Classic |
| Besame Mucho | various |
| Big Girls Don’t Cry | Fergie |
| Billboard Song | Homer and Jethro |
| Black Horse Cherry Tree | K D Turnstall |
| Blame It On Your Heart | Patty Loveless |
| Blue Moon | Lorenz and Heart |
| Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain | Willie Nelson |
| Both Sides Now | Judy Collins |
| Brandy | Looking Glass |
| Breaking Up is Hard to Do | Neil Sedaka |
| Brown Eyed Girl | Van Morrison |
| Bye Bye Love | Everly Brothers |
| Cab Driver | Mills Brothers |
| Cest La Vie You Never Can Tell | Chuck Berry Bob Seger |
| Closer To Fine-Mr Bojangles 🙂 | Bodeans |
| Come Monday | Jimmy Buffet |
| Cotton Fields-Spirituals Medley Darlin Can’t Love | Leadbelly CCR |
| Crazy | Patsy Cline |
| Crazy Love | Poco |
| Crazy Arms | Ray Price |
| Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Queen |
| Dancing In the Street | Martha and Vandells |
| Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina | Evita |
| Don’t Get Around Much Any More | Duke Ellington |
| Dust in the Wind | Kansas |
| Eight Days a Week | Beatles |
| End of the World | Skeeter Davis |
| Everybody Hurts | REM |
| Frim Fram Sauce | Nat King Cole/Diana Krall |
| Falling Slowly | Glen Hansard, ONCE |
| Follow Me | John Denver |
| Fifty Ways to Say Goodbye | Train |
| First Cut is the Deepest | Cat Stevens |
| The Fox | Folk Song |
| For Baby (Bobby) | John Denver |
| Get Together | YoungBlood |
| Grandma’s Feather Bed | John Denver |
| Five Minutes More | Sammy Cahn |
| Fix You | ColdPlay |
| Gypsy Rover | Clancy Brothers |
| For the Good Times | Ray Price |
| Glitter in the Air | Pink |
| Green Green | New Christy Minstrels |
| Five Hundred Miles | Roseanne Cash |
| Flashdance-What A feeling (ode to) | Irene Cara FLASHDANCE |
| Grow Old With Me | John Lennon |
| Halleuijah | Leonard Cohen |
| Happy Wanderer | Traditional |
| Have You Ever Seen The Rain | Creedence Clearwater |
| Here Comes the Sun | George Harrison, Beatles |
| He Thinks I Still Care | Beatles, Ann Murray |
| Help Me Make It Through the Night | Kris Kristofferson |
| Hey Jude | Beatles |
| Hey Good Looking | Hank Williams |
| Hooked On A Feeling | Bj Thomas, Redbone |
| House of the Rising Sun | Animals, Tradition |
| I Can See Clearly | Johnny Nash |
| I Need You Now | Lady Antebellum |
| I Still Miss Someone | Johnny Cash |
| I’ll Stand By You | Pretenders |
| I Hear You Knocking | Dave Edmunds |
| I Hope That I don’t Fall in Love With You | Natilie Merchant Tom Waits |
| I Never Will Marry | Joan Baez, Linda Rondstandt |
| I Saw Her Standing There | Beatles |
| If I Were a Boy | Beyonce |
| If I Needed You | Townes Van Zandt , Don Williams Emmy Lou |
| If You Love Me Let Me Know | Olivia Newton John |
| I’d Like To Build The World | Hillside Singers |
| I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight | Bob Dylan, Anne Murray |
| I’m Yours | Jason Mraz |
| I Want You To Want Me | Cheap Trick |
| If You Could Read My Mind | Gordon Lightfoot |
| In the Mood | Glen Miller |
| Jackson | Johnny Cash June Cash |
| John B Sails (Sloop) | Beach Boys |
| Jolene | Dolly Part |
| Just Like Heaven | Maise Star The Cure |
| Kansas City | Fats Domino |
| Killing Me Softly | Roberta Flack |
| King of The Road | Roger Miller |
| Let it Be | Beatles |
| Leaving On A Jet Plane | Peter Paul Mary, John Denver |
| Let Me Be There | Olivia Newton John |
| Little Crooked Man (Don’t Let The Rain) | Serendipity Singers |
| Locomotion | Little Eva |
| Look What They Done To my Song | Melanie |
| Love is All Around | Troggs |
| Love Me like a Man | B onnie Raitt |
| Mamma Mia | Abba |
| Master Jack | Four Jacks and a Jill |
| Midnight Special | Creedence Clearwater |
| Mr Bojangles | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
| Moon Shadow | Cat Stevens |
| Mockinig Bird Hill | Patti Page |
| Moving On | Hank Snow, Roseanne Cash |
| Nickel Song | Melanie |
| Night They Drove Old Dixie Down | Joan Baez |
| Norweigan Wood | Beatles |
| Ob la Di | Beatles |
| One Man’s Hands | Pete Seeger |
| On This Winter’s Night | Gordon Lightfoot, Sara Mclaughlin |
| One Tin Soldier | Coven |
| Over The Rainbow/Wonderful World | Ike |
| Operator | Manhattan Transfer |
| Peaceful Easy Feeling | Eagles |
| Perfect | Pink |
| Picture | Kid Rock |
| Plaisir D’amour | Folk Song |
| Play Me | Neil Diamond |
| Pollution | Humor |
| Power of Love (the) | Celine Dion |
| Pretty Women | Roy Orbison |
| Proud Mary | Tina Turner, Creedence ClearWater |
| Put A Little Love in Your Heart | Jackie De Shannon |
| Raindrops are Falling on my Head | BJ Thomas |
| Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms | Blue Grass |
| Roses are Red My Love | Bobby Vinton |
| Runaway/Maleguena | Bonnie Raitte |
| So Far Away | Carol King |
| Scarlet Ribbons | Giselle MacKenzie, Harry Belafonte |
| Shake Rattle and Roll | Bill Hailey and Coments |
| Sentimental Journey | Doris Day |
| Shenendoah | Traditional |
| Silver Threads and Golden Needles | Linda Rondstadt |
| Singing the Blues | Marty Robbins, Guy Mitchell |
| Song For a Winter’s Night | Gordon Lightfoot Sara Mclaughlin |
| Song Sung Blue | Neil Diamond |
| Stewball | Peter Paul Mary |
| Streets of London | Ralph McTell |
| Someday Soon | Judy Collins |
| Somedays are Diamonds | John Denver |
| Sylvia’s Mother | Dr. Hook |
| Take My Breath Away | Berlin |
| Take me the way I Am | Ingrid Michelsen |
| The Rose | Bette Midler |
| Thinking Out Loud | Ed Sheeren |
| Ticket To Ride | Beatles |
| Tapestry | Carol King |
| Teach Your Children Well | Crosby, Stills, Nash |
| Those Were The Days | Mary Hopkins |
| Tie Me Kangaroo Down | Traditional |
| Time After Time | Cyndi Lauper |
| To Make You Feel My Love | Bob Dylan, Garth Brooks, Adele |
| Tonight | David Bowie, Tina Turner |
| The Way You Look To Like | Frank Sinatra |
| Top of the World | The Carpenters |
| Two Out of Three Aint Bad | Meatloaf |
| This Land is Your Land | Woody Guthrie |
| Unchained Melody | Righteous Brothers |
| Unicorn | Irish Rovers |
| Under the Boardwalk | Drifters |
| Will Ye Go Lassie Go/Wild Mountain Thyme | Clancy Brothers |
| We’ve Got Tonight | Bob Seger |
| What a Wonderful World | Louis Armstrong |
| What’s Going On | Four Non Blondes |
| Whiter Shade of Pale | Procul Harum |
| When the River Meats the Sea | John Denver, Emmet Otter |
| When Will I Be Loved | Linda Rondstadt |
| When You Say Nothing At All | Allison Krauss |
| Yellow Bird | Harry Belafonte |
| Yellow Submarine with little help same key | Beatles |
| You Light Up My Life | Debbie Boone |
| You Won’t See Me | Beatles, Ann Murray |
| Your Song | Elton John |
| Your Still The Same | Bob Seger |
| Your Cheating Heart | Hank Williams |
| Walk Right Back | Everly Brothers/Ann Murray |
| Whisky in the Jar | Folk Song |
| Wide Open Spaces | Dixie Chicks |
| Wildword | Cat Stevens |
| Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow | Carol King, Amy Winehouse |
| With A Little Help From My Friends | Beatles |
| Words | Bee Gees |
| Wrecking Ball | Neil Young/Emmy Lou Harris |
| zipadee Doo Dah | Song Of South |
| Zombie | Cranberries |
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