​​​Linda Boyle​

"Keep “Thanks for lifting your beautiful voice for peace and love and justice for ALL of us along the way…”  

           Kate Campbell, beloved Nashville singer songwriter

singing your soul as you do so exquisitely." 

         Ellen Rockne, singer, actor  Decorah, Iowa     

           " an incredibly great singer;  amazing voice!"  

Stuart Stotts,

 singer song writer, author, story teller

Kennedy Center artist, 2011 ALA Book Awardee

​​​​​​​​“Linda has a beautiful voice;  she writes a great song!”
Steve Thorpe, singer-song writer

At many concerts over the years, listeners have compared her voice to Joan Baez, Ronnie Gilbert of the Weavers and Argentina’s Mercedes Sosa.  

Singer, song writer, poet and social historian Linda Boyle has been performing for decades.  She is also a new crankiest  creating crannies  moving panoramas with her paintings, songs and poems.  She sings in many languages and genres, with a vast repertoire in Spanish, as well as well-researched songs.  

Linda was an educator for over thirty years, teaching grades 4-12 as well as Adult Education and English as a Second Language.  She has taught Reading, U.S. History, Chicago Studies, and specializes in the history of women, labor, immigrants, and peace and social justice movements.  In her twenty-five years in Special Education, she has had roles as both a teacher and school director.  Her workshops include the use of music in differentiated and literacy instruction, and as an expressive therapy in working with youth who have experienced trauma and abuse. 

Through the years Linda has sung for many spiritual communities, restaurants, several Mexican restaurants and even an Indian restaurant, Taj Mahal and  Spanish restaurant, Cafe Barcelona, both in Chicago's Gold Coast.  Her experience in singing in Mexican restaurants and at events in Chicago Mexican communities, expanded her love and repertoire of songs in Spanish.  While working at Jane Addams' Hull-House Museum, she performed regularly at Decima Musa Restaurant in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood for almost six years.  
Linda has performed musical narrative programs combining song and narrative history at  schools, universities, libraries and events including the National Women’s Studies Association, Chicago Area Women’s History Conference,  Hull-House Museum, South Dakota Pride Festival, Black Hills Heritage Festival, South Dakota Reading Conference and Amnesty International.  A Chicago native, Linda now calls the Black Hills of South Dakota her home.  

Black Hills Comfort:  Original songs of the Black Hills -  songs with an Old Time,

                                        traditional flavor

The Forest Island:  Songs of the Black Hills-  children's/family album with

                                    educational booklets available

Beyond Existence:  original and beloved songs from Lin's musical journey in several languages

Blood Moon:  Songs & Poems:  album dedicated to The Red Ribbon Skirt Society, MMIW (Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women, children & Two-Spirit

Rapid City, SD

Chicago Country:  Songs of two homes:  Chicago and the Black Hills
 
Brave Songs:  songs of social justice for all ages, in several languages    

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