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...
SUMMER 2023: NOW BOOKING FOR MAINE, NEW BRUNSWICK, & NOVA SCOTIA
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 "Songs of American Sailormen" collector Joanna Carver Colcord, born at sea out of Searsport, Maine
NEW! Farewell to Nova Scotia: telling the life story of Lynn's great-grandfather Captain William Parker of Yarmouth, NS and Lynn, MA through the music of the Helen Creighton collections
What Did the Vikings Sing? 8th-11th century Norse music as historically informed performance, based on archaeological and manuscript sources of the Viking era
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
