Lucy Holden

Lucy Holden is a singer/songwriter from Chicago. She travels around the country for much of the year, drawing lyrical inspiration from alpine hikes, canyon camping, and desert flowers. Her musical style is heavily influenced by her background of folk music, having grown up playing Irish tunes, attending Bluegrass festivals, and obsessing over Québécois foot-tapping fiddlers. Her songs read like journal entries, honest and fluid, driven by percussive playing. Her first single "At Last" came out in April 2026, the first of ten original songs on her upcoming debut album. 

Lucy has played at numerous venues around Chicago and toured across the Midwest in Chicago folk rock band Honey Cellar and Beloit folk punk band Opus Dog. She recorded and co-wrote Honey Cellar albums, In Our Time (2020) and Borders (2022). She also performed violin and vocals on Opus Dog album Responsible People (2014) and Hydrangea Benison album The White Lake (2016). 

Lucy started playing violin at the age of four and piano when she was six. She added guitar and mandolin to her repertoire in her teenage years. She brings a multi-intrumental perspective to her music, often weaving together multiple instruments into each song and trading melody lines back and forth between her own intimate alto and an instrument. Her musical influences are diverse, from folk bands Kornog, Baal Tinne, Planxty, Le Vent du Nord, and the Wailin’ Jennys, to singer/songwriters Carol King and Vienna Teng, to rock bands Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, and Bright Eyes.