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

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

Ritual songs and calendar customs for the seasonal round

ENSEMBLES

An extraordinary league of veteran artistes from the Gilded Age of the Music Hall

Traditional English ritual plays as improvisational performance

Lynn Noel and Ken Mattsson

a cappella and dulcimer duo