Hosts Jamey and Suyun Reilly are pleased to be able to share this wonderful space with fellow music lovers, and welcome you warmly. Our goal was to build a live music space with great food, that did it right: professional production values and top equipment coupled with family style hospitality in a first class facility with easy access.

Jamey is a renaissance man with a long history in the music business as a musician and impresario, in audio design engineering, music touring, venue management, in graphic arts, teaching yoga, and as a professional Physical Therapist. He advocates for the Central Business District in Lansdowne through his position on the board of directors of the Lansdowne Business Professional Association, and seat on the Economic Development Committee of the Lansdowne Economic Development Corporation. He also serves on the board of the Philadelphia Blues Society. Above all he is a dreamer and optimist. JHOM started life as the evolution of the PSALM Salon, the music related arm of the Philadelphia Society for Art, Literature and Music, founded and chaired by Jamey in 2000, a now defunct 501(c)(3) devoted to celebrating the beauty of the living arts as the unifying language of all humanity.

We are truly fortunate to have a wonderful team at Jamey's. Our incredible front-of-house manager Meghan-Kathleen McCormick is the friendly face you first see when entering, where she will greet you and seat you, and then serve you with a smile, efficiently and attentively all evening. Meg has become a beloved daughter to us and we have come to love her and her own little one, Allie, a precocious 6 year old who delights at growing up in a place filled with love and music.

Behind the bar is Jamey's long-time friend, bartender and booking manager Greg Gaughan, who also manages real estate and runs a blues radio show entitled "The Blues Journey" on Radio That Doesn't Suck, out of Toronto, Canada. Every once in awhile, Greg's wife, Shaofang, who also happens to be Suyun's life-long friend from school days in China, will come in to help out in the kitchen when things get busy. We always look forward to coming to work, where we can be surrounded by friends and loved ones, and some of the best music on the planet.

A word about our guiding ethos. The uniqueness of Jamey's House of Music springs from the unorthodox philosophy of its founder. Being the product of the hippy generation, Jamey never bought into the straight laced business model that places growth and profit above all else. To the contrary, Jamey built the House of Music with his own hard earned funds and continues to supplement its operation out of pocket. Great! You found the hidden easter egg which entitles you to a free admission to any show of your choosing by printing out a screenshot of this page section and presenting it at the door. His goal is to provide guests and artists the best possible experience in terms of welcoming warmth, modest prices, engaging aesthetics and design, high food quality, and technical sophistication, while maintaining a sustainable operation. His measure of success is the wideness of the smiles on guest's faces, and not a burgeoning bank account. Indeed, every penny is poured back into the "business", and not a single penny has gone into Jamey's pocket. He is not well off by any means because of his philosophy, but his riches are of another sort.

The laughing blue Buddha logo, designed by Jamey, represents our belief in the joyful lightness of being, and the conviction that music is humanity's universal language.

Jamey also did the overall design planning for the new JHOM, as well as the acoustical, kitchen and interior design, and audio equipment installation.

Our custom built bar and refrigeration system was designed and built by our previous bar partener, Paul Mulherin, of Crooked Eye Brewery.

Sound is expertly engineered by Jamey Reilly, who has decades of professional experience in international pro-touring FOH Sound and road management with major groups ranging from Aerosmith to Frank Zappa, large and small venue management, theater sound reinforcement design and installation, recording studio engineering/producing/consulting, and high-end pro-audio equipment engineering design including mixing consoles, microphones, loudspeakers, preamplifiers, amplifiers, noise reduction, signal processors, filters and equalizers. Jamey has designed equipment that has toured with some of the biggest names in music like Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris, gone to the top of Mount Everest (and won an Emmy Award for CBS) and even into outer space. Jamey also plays bass guitar and has been a lover of the blues for many decades.

Chef Suyun founded the popular "Heaven-Heaven" restaurant in southern China, and helped run the family's successful restaurant business there. She was in charge of the kitchen at our previous fine dining restaurant, Patrone, which featured high end Italian and Japanese cuisine. You will now find her in our beautiful new kitchen creating mouth-watering Asian accented new American fare for your delight, from fresh pot stickers and fried rice to delicious, meat, fish and vegetarian dishes.

Suyun brings a deep and soulful presence to all she does. Her prodigious talent is evident not only in the kitchen, but in her gardening and craft work. Jamey regards her as his muse, and has found his Irish temperment greatly tempered by her even and peaceful composure. She immediatly charms all she meets with her smile and easy laughter.

Check out the modestly priced full menu on the menu page. We hope you will return again and again to enjoy stellar eats, adult beverages, superb live music and a really warm and inviting place to meet friendly people.