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Growing up on a Dorset farm, in south west England, I started writing songs at an early age, learned guitar and got writing. At 19, I started up FolkMoot in Exeter, a songwriter club where many local and well-known artists appeared including Show of Hands. Whilst at college in Hull, I appeared regularly on BBC Radio Humberside.
I moved to London to record my first album with Koala Records. Did hundreds and hundreds of gigs......and on the way I worked with some wonderfully talented musicians.....Ron de Jong (great jazz pianist), Mike Williams (country boy), Claus Regli (great guitarist and arranger) and my lovliest friend and co-writer, Patti Layne. We've just resumed our songwriting partnership so watch this space!I hooked up with "Girls with Guitars (UK)" (songwriting consortium) and went over to Nashville with Mandy Mayhew (July + August 05) to promote my debut album "Kayla". Venues included the prestigious Bluebird Café by personal invitation of Barbara Cloyd, The Americana Tonight Show (recorded at the Sutler for radio distribution), special feature at The Hall of Fame, Jack Scott’s French Quarter & shown on internet TV, headlined in the round with Devon O’Day, Kim McLean, Leilah Safka (Melanie’s daughter) at the FOPP Writer’s Night and performed as a featured writer on Debi Champion’s Commodore night.A review by Paul Davis of The Internet Country Show talking about my debut album "Kayla" ………- Carrie is one of the UK’s ‘new breed of folk-country’ that represent the generation of today. She wears her heart on her sleeve with class. All self-penned, here are several notable biographical songs herewith given the classic singer-songwriter airing via guitar-based ‘folk-country’ interpretation.
Review by Media Medley’s, Earl Douglass………Carrie’s sweet, angelic voice, fine acoustic guitar skills and personal lyrics paints masterpieces of emotional snapshots on her current album, "Kayla". Carrie’s voice, (and what a voice!), invokes favorable comparisons to Joni Mitchell. Her style, though, is her own and shines with a rich luster on tracks 1, "You Make Me Sing" and 10, "Kayla". Track 8, "Poisoned Words" is my personal favorite. This is a powerful, anger driven, blues tinged song that highlights an edgier aspect of Carrie’s voice not found elsewhere on this CD. The creative bass work by Joe Parker on this track is outstanding.SONGWRITERS-IN-THE-ROUND ON TOUR MARCH 3RD 2004 In the SODA - Salon of the Kulturbrauerei (Old Brewery), Berlin, Germany.
Mandy Mayhew and I played an evening of original and unplugged acoustic songs alongside Ic Falkenberg, Timon Hoffmann and others, with Tom Cunningham as host.
The review said (translated) “No distance would have been too far to come for these featured writers!!†Carrie Lennard flew in from London that same morning with Jae Avery (Founder of Girls with Guitars UK and songwriter) and Mandy Mayhew (singer, writer, performer) and, as the evening progressed, Carrie showed the spectrum of her amazing musical talent - from melodic songs with real bluesy feeling up to her rocky and powerful singing where she was superbly supported by Mandy Mayhew, whose voice “nuanced†the songs with incredible sensitivity and timing. As most people who have seen and heard her know, Carrie plays a fabulous acoustic guitar. In the words of the sound guys, “It was just ready to record!†(Tom Cunningham Founder & Organiser of Songwriters-in-the-round Tour, Germany)
I've performed in South Africa, Hong Kong, the States, Europe and loads in the UK. Like all othery songwriters, I'm placing a little bit of me out in the world...why?.....because I've wanted to since I was a kid......
