Biography
Linda is a UK based songwriter, composer and lyricist (PRS/BASCA (Now Ivor’s Academy)/PPL) who’s work has been broadcast & performed on national, regional and worldwide radio & TV, receiving rave reviews.
Her New Woodland song was the official piece performed live for Dr Brian May at the inaugural tree planting day on his native tree plantation in Dorset, UK. International soprano Katerina Mina performed two of Linda’s classical cross over compositions at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris for the worldwide launch of the International Day of Light and her song Rainbow Of Light played in over 53 countries worldwide during the International Year Of Light. ROL & Look To The Universe were recorded and released by Ms Mina on a 5 track EP of Linda’s songs. Linda went on to record & release three full albums and two further EP’s of her original songs in 2020, 2021 & 2022, with a single release in 2023.
Her song catalogue includes a mix of material from classical-cross over, folk, country, rock, pop, Latin & light jazz. Four of her pieces are now part of the British Music Collection (The New Woodland Song & Rainbow of Light, The Bells of Bere Regis and Freedom For Me). Four songs reached the semi-finals in the (international) UK Songwriting contest and all entries from her latest album SEVENTY have been commended http://www.lindalamon.bandcamp.com
Linda studied music theory at The Ridge College in Marple, Cheshire and has received professional coaching in voice, guitar, double bass and mandolin.
She has performed as a singer/guitarist/mandolin/double bass player as a solo performer and collaborated with musicians at festivals and concerts in the UK, Europe and the USA. She has also organised interactive workshops for under 5’s at schools, libraries and music festivals in the UK, teaching children how to create and engage with songs and rhymes. Click here to view some of the people that Linda has collaborated with.
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2023
Fourth full album ABOUT TIME/ COUNTRY due for release in October.
Single release, Venus Shine On/August 11th 2023
Linda’s band ABOUT TIME formed. https://youtu.be/zXB9v_9IkrM
2022
SEVENTY ALBUM Release date 17th November 2022
Hold On In Love’s Name semi-finalist in UK Songwriting Contest
LOOK TO THE UNIVERSE EP Released 26th August 2022
Semi-Finalist in the TALENT IS TIMELESS song competitIon with HOLD ON IN LOVE’S NAME
FREEDOM FOR ME single release 19th July 2022
REAL LOVE (single release) 14th February 2022
2021
PEOPLE LIKE YOU, PEOPLE, LIKE ME, (single release) November 2021
ARE WE ALONE? single release October 2021
CREATURES OF THE WOOD single release June 2021
ABOUT TIME 2 ALBUM single release June 2021
2020
Linda’s single Hold On In Love’s Name is released ahead of her first solo album ABOUT TIME 1. October.
Rainbow of Light Anthem released as a single to support the NHS Charities Together.
Rainbow of Light Anthem, performed by Katerina Mina, features in the concert gala for the 90th birthday of the Hamburg Planetarium.
Linda starts on her new country album, ‘About Time’, collaborating with musicians in Nashville, USA.
Linda’s works are included in the Sound and Music project for International Women’s Day.
2019
A single from the EP Nature’s Universe, Look to the Universe, was released to celebrate the late Prof Stephen Hawking’s birthday on January 8th, receiving radio play and interviews on Uk radio stations.
Linda releases her single I Will in digital stores. https://music.apple.com/gb/album/i-will/1280331488?i=1280331920
2018
Linda released an EP containing five of her works, plus a remix, featuring soprano Katerina Mina.
Two of the pieces from ‘Nature’s Universe‘ were performed live by Katerina at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on May 16th.
Look to the Universe opened the ceremony, after an introduction paying tribute to the late Professor Stephen Hawking, who inspired Linda to write the song.
Rainbow of Light anthem closed the successful event and was also performed by Katerina in London in June the same year from the Pyramideon outside Trinity House.
2017
Linda received confirmation that her new piece Look to the Universe will be performed by soprano Katerina Mina at the UNESCO HQ in Paris during Spring 2018 to celebrate the inaugural International Day Of Light, which will be an annual event worldwide.
Linda released two songs via her digital distributors Horus Music, which are now available via iTunes and other digital stores, including Amazon and Spotify.
Walking In May’s Wood , sung by a Dorset children’s choir, is also scheduled to be used as the main track for a video that Brian May’s Save Me Trust are planning to make to promote May’s Wood in Dorset.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/walking-in-mays-wood-single/id1260269795
Freedom For Me, performed by soprano Katerina Mina, is a shortened single version taken from an EP track that will feature Katerina singing five of Linda’s classical cross over songs, including a composition she arranged as a tribute to Professor Stephen Hawking.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/freedom-for-me-single/id1265073228
2015
Rainbow Of Light, (classical version) inspired by the International astronomy/music festival Starmus 111 and sung by the International soprano Katerina Mina, officially supported UNESCO for their International Year Of Light 2015, which involved 60 countries worldwide.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/rainbow-of-light-anthem-single/id1061854105
The work opened the official Cyprus IYL event and was played in India, Italy, Russia, Brazil, USA, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the UK at IYL events during 2015. Katerina Mina performed this song live, plus two additional pieces written by Linda at Laser Florence in Italy and in Bristol, UK.
The video of a later version, also released in 2015, was screened during the film festival at the IYL Closing ceremony in Mexico in January 2016.
One of her more fun pieces, 189 Durley Chine, which Linda composed on her ukelele, was featured in a UK seaside tour with the Hugs Bison theatre company .
2013-2014
Linda composed two songs to support Dr Brian May’s environmental projects. The Badger & The Wren and The New Woodland Song.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-badger-the-wren-creatures-of-the-wood-single/id1102540038
The New Woodland song was performed live for Dr Brian May for his inaugural tree planting ceremony in Dorset and was broadcast by BBC Southwest Today and Wessex FM. The songs received widespread publicity in newspapers throughout the UK and on digital media.
Linda has achieved a semi-finalist position four times in the UK International Songwriting Competition with People Like You, The Bells of Bere Regis Rainbow of Light, Don’t Put It On Me
Previous Compositions and Experience
2007
A CD compilation of country songs included Linda’s composition I Will.
The work had airplay on American radio stations and BBC Radio Manchester, plus BBC Radio 2.
Fly The Kite For The City, performed by a children’s choir, The Alicia Bardsley Singers, promoted the Manchester Olympic Bid and was broadcast on national TV and radio in the UK.
Click here to see a history of Linda’s Recording career.