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Lynn Hollyfield – Contemporary Folk with Heart and Soul

With her beautiful alto voice, expressive acoustic guitar playing, and deeply personal songwriting, Lynn Hollyfield has established herself as a distinctive voice in contemporary folk music. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bonnie Raitt, and George Gershwin, she blends folk, jazz, and blues influences into songs that are both thoughtful and emotionally resonant.

A longtime songwriter and performer, Hollyfield has released several acclaimed albums, including Look Up (2024), and is now preparing the release of her fourth studio album, Diving In, produced by Grammy-nominated Seth Glier. The album explores themes of love, loss, resilience, and human connection through a collection of beautifully crafted songs.

Whether performing on stage or recording in the studio, Lynn Hollyfield continues to captivate audiences with music that is authentic, reflective, and full of grace.

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lend a beautiful alto voice, crisp acoustic guitar, and a heartfelt perspective on the world, and you have Lynn Hollyfield. Known for her warm stage presence and emotionally rich songs, she connects effortlessly with audiences. Writing in a contemporary folk style, Lynn weaves in jazz-influenced chords and bluesy guitar alongside passionate vocals, think Mary Chapin Carpenter meets Bonnie Raitt with a touch of George Gershwin. The result is her own distinctive voice, witty, soulful, and reflective.

Lynn has been writing songs since her teenage years, growing up on Staten Island, NY, surrounded by a wide range of musical influences, from jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra to artists like The Beatles and Neil Young. She began performing locally at a young age and later gained recognition as part of the duo Hollyfield & Spruill, appearing at festivals such as the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.

After launching her solo career, Lynn released several acclaimed albums, including LAYERS (2010), IN THE BALANCE (2014), and LOOK UP (2024), earning national and international airplay along with multiple songwriting awards including being listed in the Top Artists/ Top Albums for the International Folk Alliance. During the pandemic, she also published a children’s book, The Tree, The Ship and Me, with its accompanying song recognized as a finalist in the Mid-Atlantic Songwriting Contest.

Lynn is getting ready to release her fourth album, Diving In, produced by Grammy-nominated Seth Glier. A Spring Songwriting challenge and a Summer Songwriter’s retreat led to a serendipitous meeting with Seth, that resulted in recording 11 songs in 5 days, at Ghost Hit Recording Studios, West Springfield, MA, a week before Christmas, 2025. Snow falling, blessing the first day, they played in a circle, in a historic New England Church turned studio, with these incredible artists: Seth Glier, Abbie Gardner, Reed Sutherland and Rob Griffith. Kelly Halloran joined mid-week. Diving In is a collection of songs revealing the twists and turns in lives, our humanness, loss, love, the times we were in and the path we choose to go through it. 

here’s a range of styles on this album, mostly contemporary folk, a few with a little bit of traditional feel and timeless vibe. “There’s a quiet beauty in tradition. A delicate sacred space in folk music where songs can paint landscapes. Where melodies and arrangements sit comfortably inside the roots of Americana without ever feeling dated. Instead, they feel like a reminder. A breath. A return to something real in a world that constantly forces us to live too fast, want too much, and never be satisfied.”

The song, “Blindspot” was written after losing a family member and a friend to the fentanyl crisis. “Afterwards, I couldn’t help but wonder if I had been truly open and caring when I was with them. Was there anything I could have done to help them? I’ll never know and it’s one of those hard life lessons - too little too late. I worked on this song with Seth Glier at the Dar Williams Songwriter’s Retreat, August, 2025 and it was the first we recorded for the upcoming album.” Her music doesn’t demand your attention but earns it with patience and grace.

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Her single "We Are The People" is a transformative folk single co-written with story weaver, poet, and playwright, Carol Burbank. Lynn shares, "It’s a protest song. A song that calls for unity, during the division we are seeing in our country, the United States of America. We know we have strength in numbers, and it’s a call out to stand together, to keep our democracy intact."

Lynn continues to perform and tour along the East Coast while supporting the music community as a host for the Songwriter’s Association of Washington open mic and as Music Director at the Celebration Center for Spiritual Living in Falls Church, VA. 

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