Lorraine Lucas is a Folkestone based songwriter, singer, performer, composer and also musical director of Folkestone Song writing Festival.

Her influences from folk, country, blues, rock n roll such as Gillian Welsh, Lucinda Williams and the gritty honest autobiographical style of Mary Gauthier are evident in her writing however there is more to her just Americana.

Lorraine plays festivals and venues large and small across the UK and Europe as a solo performer or with one of her many musical collaborations.

" I'm blessed to have a team of first class musicians who can step in whatever the gig needs and deliver".

She has two released albums...'Loves' Executioner' 2009, a collaboration with Paul Fitzgerald ( The Coal Porters) and Paul Clifford ( Be Good Tanyas, Afro Cubismo, Groanbox) and Messenger 2017 co- produced my Tali Trow ( The Coal Porters, John Murry, Lords of Thyme) and has just finished her latest project of spoken word,
experimental/electronica/folk - a distance collaboration with Hampshire musician Neil Carter which was recorded during breaks in the pandemic lockdown.
" Working with Neil was a real shift away from the almost too comfortable Americana I had become identified with and it was really exciting collaborating with someone who came from a completely different dimension.

It has to be fresh, music has to keep evolving otherwise it becomes stale and predictable and who wants that".
Lorraine runs song writing workshops in the community and clinical and institutional settings combining her other job as a psychotherapist as a way to inspire marginalised groups to tell their story....and to make it fun.

" we all have a song inside us...we zll have a story to tell and I love being part of that process'.