9:00 pm to 10:30 pm, Monday July 20
Loralyn Coles
Singer-Songwriter, Folk/Traditional, and Americana

Loralyn Coles has performed in the Washington, DC area since 1994, singing her own songs as well as traditional folk. Her CD, Blue Moonlight, tied with Tom Paxton for a 2008 Wammie award.

One of the songs on the CD, Golden Songs, The Water Is Wide, was published in a 2002 issue of Sing Out! magazine. In March of 2026, Loralyn released the song as a lyric YouTube video. https://youtu.be/NEKAXa8re9E

“Hauntingly beautiful”- Jon Stein, radio host of Hootenanny Cafe.

"her drawn-out notes in, for instance, Golden Songs, The Water Is Wide, give the listener goosebumps…a Judy Collins-esque voice”- Mark S. Tucker, FAME

Now, Loralyn has written a young adult fantasy novel, Dangerous Voice, to be released on 9/20/26, in which a teenage girl must learn to sing or die. The vocal lessons are real, but the teachers aren’t human. Since there are song battles between the characters, Loralyn is writing the songs mentioned in the book, as well.

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