These links open new browser windows to outside video sites, mostly YouTube. (Links were valid as of June 2020, except as noted, but of course there are no guarantees.)
Added August 2022 :
Glen Pilant at Kerville Folk Festival 2022
Added February 2022 :
Sue Demel & Steve Dawson with Michael's music from Snow Queen:
Added August 2021 :
Many links supplied by Jim Tulio (as collaborator with Michael):
Several recordings of Michael & Barbara supplied by Jim Tulio:
Stranded In The Moonlight Car On Fire Honeydew Spoon River You Don't Need HimSeveral recordings of Pete Special supplied by Jim Tulio:
Rockin' Or What Rebel Come Back Paterson Summer House of Cards Blue Telephone Rules of the Road (Pete Special & Rick Danko)
Added October 2020 :
A compilation of performances and interviews from Michael's
eight appearances at Tales From The Tavern, between 2003 and 2018.
(See
Kathy Kelly review.)
Added August 2020 :
Friend Linda M Smith
said that this song was a last request:
a live performance of "Tom Mix Blues."
Added June 2020 :
Links supplied by Michael (as author):
Added Sept 2019:
Fox Valley Folk Festival, Sept 2019
Added April 2017:
Winterhawk House Concert Series, St Augustine, FL, 9/2/2012 (live performance + other slides) by Jamie DeFrates
InLaws, Gurnee, IL, Jan 2014
Michael with Anne Hills, Arhaven House Concerts, 2014
Tribute to Steve Goodman, live at Arie Crown Theater, Jan 1985
Michael Smith and Barbara Barrow at Flick Coffehouse 50th reunion, March 2014
Michael Smith and Barbara Barrow, live at the Earl of Old Town, March 28, 1973 (introduced by Rich Warren)
Michael with Pat Fleming, from Fast Folk Musical Magazine, Jan 1989
Michael Smith and Barbara Barrow, at naming celebration of The Steve Goodman Post Office in Chicago, Oct 2010
Michael, live at Hayner Library, Alton, IL, March 2009
Jamie O'Reilly and Michael Smith, from Jamie's Songpainting
From: Tales from the Tavern Vol 1, 2006
A parody of The Dutchman, by Andina and Rich, live at Escape Java Joint, Madison, WI, May 2009
Steve Goodman performing Michael's song
Performances of Michael's songs by others at The Flick (in earlier days)
Music selections from early vinyl releases
2012 videos:
Michael Smith at European Street, Jacksonville FL, 9/1/2012
Michael Smith with Jamie O'Reilly from "Songs of a Catholic Childhood", 2012
Michael Smith's Hey Kid song, accompanying a slideshow of Leo Segedin paintings:
Selections from Eastland, summer 2012
2010-2011 videos:
Michael Smith at the Glenview (IL) Public Library, April 10, 2011
Michael Smith at the Focal Point in Maplewood, MO, March 2011
From a July 30, 2010 interview at Old Town School of Folk Music, with Michael, about his writings, interspersed with performances by Michael and others, and other images
Michael Smith at a house concert produced by Paul Wales and Annie Orlando in Gainesville, FL, May 9th 2010
Michael Smith at the Gamble Rogers Folk Festival in St.Augustine, FL, May 2nd, 2010
Michael Smith at The Coffee Gallery Backstage, March 2010
Videos before 2010:
Michael Smith on Chicago Tonight, WTTW Chicago, Sept 16, 2009
Michael Smith with Anne Hills, Rose Garden Coffeehouse, Mansfield, Mass., April 25, 2009
Michael Smith at Wild Basin, Austin, TX, 6/21/2008
Michael Smith at Howmet Playhouse in Whitehall, MI, October 26th, 2007
Michael Smith at The Prairie Center For The Arts in Schaumburg Illinois, August, 1997
Performances of Michael's songs by Eric Kinkel and Company, July 2004
Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, performances of "The Dutchman"
Creative photo-sequences coordinated with Michael's recording (two versions)
Kat Eggleston at Diane's Fifty-First, Oct 27, 2007
Joe Rathburn at The Folkey Monkey show at Milano Coffee Co., 11/06/2008
Anne Hills & Al Ehrich at benefit concert, Oct 6, 2001
Anne Hills at Shelborne Hotel Miami Beach, Florida, November 8, 1986 (introduced by Christine Lavin)
Steve Goodman from the album No Big Surprise, an anthology
Homage to The Flick Coffeehouse, near University of Miami, which operated during the 60's