Lenore

Born in Canada, Lenore Elaine grew up in Port Arthur before relocating to Toronto, where she held a position as personnel manager. She later stepped away from the workforce to focus on raising her family, with an eye toward eventually pursuing freelance writing. Instead, she gradually taught herself guitar one note at a time and shifted her longstanding interest in poetry into songwriting, a transition that led naturally into singing her own material.

By late 1990 she had begun appearing onstage in clubs, initially limiting her performances to Toronto and the wider Ontario region. Her self-titled debut appeared in 1997 on her own label and was later remixed and remastered in 1999. Among the standout tracks on the reworked edition are “Born With the Blues,” “I’ve Wanted You,” “Rock & Roll,” and “Goin’ to New Orleans.”

Once the remix was complete, she returned to the studio to record an entirely new album. The result, Summer Dancing, collected many of the blues-oriented songs that had accumulated in her live sets during the intervening years. Her recordings have earned favorable notices in Extreme, Nefarious, Renegade, and Atnzone. Reviewers have placed her work within the categories of folk country, funky folk, blues, and pop/rock. Onstage she presents original songs with vigorous energy and a voice that shifts fluidly between sweet and sensual tones.