Lynn Noel
Crosscurrents Music
Heritage Traditions for Digital Community
Vivacious, charismatic, and energetic, Lynn Noel knows the story behind the song and makes you a part of it. Her clear, powerful voice is equally at home in rhythmic sea chanteys and lyrical ballads, and her repertoire extends to over fifteen languages. Lynn accompanies herself on treble, baritone, and bass dulcimer, shruti box, bodhran, and spoons, but her favorite instrument is the audience. She has a winning stage presence, an encyclopedic knowledge of her material, a huge sense of fun, and a joy in singing that shines through every song. Read more...
SPRING/SUMMER 2024 SPECIAL PROGRAMS
RECORDINGS & CONCERTS
From Boston Harbor: traditional and original maritime music
Gulf of Saint Lawrence: traditional song from Atlantic Canada
Set to the Music: original settings of maritime poetry
A Woman's Way: true songs of women explorers
Songs of the Sagas: music of the Viking era
Watching the Apples Grow: a celebration of apples, cider, and the apple tree
ILLUSTRATED MUSICAL LECTURE/DEMONSTRATIONS
Chanteys from the Colcord Collection the life and work of "Roll and Go: Songs of American Sailormen" collector Joanna Carver Colcord (1882-1960), born at sea out of Searsport, Maine.
2024 Roll and Go Centennial Tour
- June 2: short program and participatory chanteysing, Live From the Mermaid's Tavern (online)
- June 7: Symposium on the Music of the Sea, Connecticut Sea Music Festival, Essex, CT (in-person/recorded)
- July 18: Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, ME (Colcord family home port) (hybrid)
- July 19: Sea chantey singalong, Searsport Shores Oceanfront Camping, Searsport, ME (in-person)
- July 20: Collectomania! Conference, Cecil Sharp House, London, UK (prerecorded video)
- August 6: Guest compere, Chantey Night in the Middle Bar, Anchor Inn, Sidmouth Folk Week, Devon, UK (in-person)
- August 16: Chantey crew at Craft Food Hall, Waltham, MA (in-person)
- August 25: Whaling Songs for Draw Me Ishmael: Book Arts of Moby Dick, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (in-person)
- September 15: Chantey crew for Minuteman Bikeway Block Party, Lexington, MA (in-person)
- September 28-29: Performer, Portsmouth Maritime Festival, Portsmouth, NH (hybrid)
- November 6-9: American Folklore Society National Conference, Albuquerque, NM (in-person)
SOLO PROGRAMS
Living history of women explorers, ballads of seriously epic women, and women folklorists and songcatchers
Chanteys, maritime ballads, original settings of sea poetry, and songs of Lynn's home port and favorite coasts
ENSEMBLES
An extraordinary league of veteran artistes from the Gilded Age of the Music Hall
