This is for you…
Whether you’re a singer, instrumentalist, storyteller, or ensemble — if you love a living tradition and want to build a practice that lasts, you’re in the right place.
Lynn Noel is newly retired from tech and dedicating her encore career to leading and serving folk and heritage arts and music communities.
Lynn has walked your path and understands your journey. With dual careers in arts and tech, she’s built a lifelong practice as a working artist and is ready to help you build yours.
MEET US: The Mermaid’s Tavern
A welcoming online folk club where singers, players, and listeners gather around song, story, and shared tradition, with regular ballad and chantey sings and a series of special events. The Tavern emerged in response to the pandemic but continues to draw 20-30 singers monthly from North America, the UK, and Europe. Join us as a special guest or event host if you’d like to reach our audience!
REFLECT: What Can I Do With All These Songs?
Session singers, jam leaders, and new bands — you have the songs and the festival experience and are starting to wonder where and what your next stage could look like, let’s have a conversation with some of the song leaders who’ve made it to their next stage.
DIVE IN: Research Rabbitholes Series
When I went looking for who collected Rio Grande, I was doing digital humanities and heritage interpretation research. I just didn’t call it that. Bring your current research rabbithole. In three sessions, we’ll follow it together — and find out what it can do for your credibility, your programs, and your sense of what you’re actually qualified to say..
BUILD: DIY Digital Workshop Series
Let’s go book some gigs. Build the systems and the practice — email outreach, customer relationship tracking, ticketing, payments — that sustain your art beyond the festival in four sessions that can be completed individually or in series.
ACTIVATE: DIY Digital Tune-Up Intensive
Got systems but no contacts in them? In one session, let’s turn your existing systems into real leads, real outreach, real action.
What People Say
When the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston was forced to cancel an in-person house concert, Lynn Noel and Digital Heritage Consulting came to the rescue. In just a few days, Lynn created a virtual house concert experience. It was the performer’s first time doing a virtual concert – it was FSSGB’s first time hosting a house concert – so much could go wrong!
But Lynn nimbly guided all of us through communication and technology challenges, with the result that four times as many people were able to enjoy the concert. It was such a success that a month later, FSSGB called upon Lynn’s expertise once again to assist another performer to broadcast a virtual concert from his home, with the result that ten times as many people attended
Lynn is a professional – with the level-headed clarity of a technician and the flexible creativity of a performer, she comprehends the virtual experience as a whole, which brings about a fulfilling experience for everyone – performer, host, and audience.