Biography
Songs of Justice, Hope,
Spirit and Love

Songwriter Linda Allen is one of those rare performers who combines story and song into a rich and generous flow. She sings the songs that tell of the lives and the work, the hopes and the dreams of people everywhere. Her songs are rooted in tradition and honed by years of commitment to an art that both informs and transforms.

Linda has over forty years experience collecting stories, writing songs and performing. She has seven recordings to her credit: The Long Way Home, Lay It Down: Images of the Sacred, Women's Work, Washington Notebook, October Roses, Mama Wanted To Be A Rainbow Dancer, and her most recent, Where I Stand.

Linda has been Resident Songwriter for the State of Washington, has organized two community folk centers, and has toured extensively throughout the US and beyond. She's served on the national executive board of Local 1000, the Traveling Musician's Unions. She's published two collections of Washington songs and has traveled to numerous schools, museums and libraries  with workshops and concerts on Washington's history.   In 2006 she visited Israel and Palestine and later completed a recording of children's songs for use in the Peacebuilders program in Bethlehem.

Linda received her doctorate with a dissertation on helping disempowered women find their voices. She was ordained as an interfaith minister in 2006.  Linda frequently teaches workshops and offers keynote addresses at conferences, seeking to empower others to find their physical and creative voices.

Linda has recently been certified as a Clinical Musician.  She directs the Bellingham Threshold Choir whose purpose is to provide comfort music at the bedside of those who are seriously ill or dying. 

Linda is currently touring with her multi-media production, Here's to the Women!  Both the   silencing of women's experience and the empowering of women's voices are showcased, featuring songs, stories, readings and images with a special emphasis on the struggle for the vote in Washington State one hundred years ago. She is recording her eighth CD, Here's to the Women!.  More information is available on her web site: www.lindasongs.com .  Financial assistance for bringing this program to venues in Washington State may be available through Inquiring Mind, a program of Humanities Washington:  Click here.