Elaine Lennon

Songs with heart. Stories with meaning. Music that makes people feel less alone.

Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter • Storyteller • Creative Collaborator

North Lanarkshire & Glasgow | Scotland | UK & International

Elaine Lennon is an award-winning Scottish singer-songwriter whose work blends emotional honesty, reflective storytelling, and soulful melodic writing with themes of resilience, identity, healing, hope, and human connection.

Her music exists both as a professional artistic practice and as part of the wider philosophy underneath The Life Compass™ Framework — exploring what it means to navigate life, change, emotion, and belonging through song and story.

Whether performing live, co-writing collaboratively, facilitating creative projects, or creating reflective listening experiences, the intention underneath the work remains the same:

to create songs and spaces that help people feel something real.

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EXPLORE RELEASES

Explore Releases

'Elaine Lennon: Song by Song'

In a series of online interviews, Boo Hewerdine chats with Elaine Lennon & Producer Findlay Napier about the songs from Lennon's Debut Album.

Watch the full series on Elaine Lennon's Youtube Channel.

Selected Highlights

🌿 Celtic Music Radio — Album of the Year

🌿 Celtic Connections 'Danny Kyle Stage' Winner
🌿 TEDx Speaker inspired by her song 'Little Bird Little Sailor' and 'The Light'
🌿 Performed at Nashville’s iconic Bluebird Café
🌿 Americana Music Association UK — Hero Award Nominee
🌿 UK Songwriting Contest Finalist & Award Recognition
🌿 Nashville Songwriters Association International — “One To Watch”
🌿 Music featured across BBC Radio
🌿 Official Celtic Connections album launch
🌿 Founder of award-nominated live music platform The Homebird Sessions
🌿 Collaborations with respected UK & US songwriters and touring artists

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Songs That Hold Truth, Tenderness & Resilience

Elaine’s songwriting explores the inner landscape:
love, grief, courage, home, identity, change, healing, hope, and the quiet moments that shape who we become.

Her music blends intimate lyrical storytelling with cinematic emotional depth — creating songs that feel personal while still deeply universal.

Some listeners arrive through the music and later discover the wider wellbeing work.

Others encounter the songs through workshops, live events, coaching spaces, or reflective experiences.

Both are simply different paths into the same human conversation.

Critical Acclaim

“One of the best debut albums I have heard in years.” - FATEA Magazine

“Majestic.” - Maverick Magazine

“Gifted with a delicately beautiful voice.” - Lonesome Highway

“Engaging and enthralling.” - Folking.com

“One of the most in demand performers on the Glasgow music scene.” - Blabber ’N Smoke

“A must for music fans and writers everywhere.” - The Herald (The Homebird Sessions)

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Live Performance & Creative Collaborations

Elaine has performed across Scotland, the UK and internationally — from intimate listening rooms and theatres to major festivals and iconic songwriter venues.

Selected Performances Include:

🌿 Celtic Connections
🌿 Nashville’s Bluebird Café
🌿 Glasgow Americana Festival
🌿 Scotland on Tour
🌿 Cottiers Theatre
🌿 The Glad Café
🌿 Lanternhouse / Cumbernauld Theatre
🌿 BBC Radio live sessions
🌿 House concerts and intimate storytelling events across the UK

Known for creating emotionally connected live experiences, Elaine’s performances combine storytelling, warmth, humour, vulnerability and powerful vocal delivery in a way that makes audiences feel immediately at ease.

Collaborative Writing & Creative Work

Alongside her solo work, Elaine regularly collaborates with artists, writers, producers and creative organisations across music, education and wellbeing settings.

Creative collaborations include:

co-writing projects
featured harmonies and guest vocals
live music collaborations
youth songwriting projects
creative facilitation
commissioned songwriting
story-led wellbeing experiences
music and spoken-word events
artist development support

Her work bridges artistry and emotional intelligence — creating collaborative spaces that feel both creatively inspiring and deeply human.

The Homebird Sessions™

Elaine is also the founder and curator of The Homebird Sessions™ — an intimate live music platform created to support connection, storytelling, creativity and community through live performance.

The project received national recognition and led to Elaine’s nomination for the Americana Music Association UK Hero Award for services supporting emerging artists and grassroots live music.

Music as Reflection, Connection & Storytelling

For Elaine, music has never simply been about performance.

It is about:

helping people feel seen
making sense of experience
creating connection
offering comfort
holding emotion safely
and reminding people they are not alone in what it means to be human.

This same philosophy now flows through all areas of her wider work — from songwriting and performance to coaching, wellbeing and creative facilitation.

Current Creative Chapter

Following several years developing The Life Compass™ Framework alongside youth, education and wellbeing projects, Elaine is now back in the writing room working towards future solo releases, collaborative projects and live experiences.

New music and live dates will be announced soon.

Work With Elaine

Elaine is available for:

🌿 Live performances
🌿 Festivals & arts events
🌿 House concerts & intimate listening events
🌿 Songwriting collaborations & co-writing
🌿 Commissioned songwriting projects
🌿 Creative wellbeing events
🌿 Talks, panels & storytelling events
🌿 Youth & education creative programmes
🌿 Collaborative artistic partnerships

For bookings, collaborations or creative enquiries, you’re warmly invited to connect.

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"I love when great melodies intertwine with stories that hook me in, leaving me wanting to listen over

...songs that speak to me, make me laugh and cry, remind me of something dear, carry a powerful message, that inspire me...songs that make me FEEL something - that are real and fearlessly from the heart.

That's the song I strive to create...every time..."- ELAINE LENNON