Lucy Lambert Press Kit

Lucy Lambert is a virtuosic accordionist, violinist, jazz singer, and multi-instrumentalist living in Montreal. She is the founder, accordionist, lead

singer, and producer of Lucy Lambert's Violet Drift, who have just released their first full length jazz album.

Lucy's singing is influenced by the great vocalists of early jazz music and is often compared to jazz artists she is influenced by in her vocals such as Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith.

She released her first album of original folk songs in 2017 and has since performed and recorded with different groups such as the prize winning all female swing band 10%Velcro and the Ragtime Rebetiko Group Clinker.

She is a self taught musician who focusses on jazz accordion, singing, and violin, though genre bends to include swing, manouche, eastern european, and folk music. She came to jazz accordion through several years of playing in the street with different jazz bands as a travelling street performer, busking her way through Europe, East Asia and the United States. 

That was before arriving in New Orleans where she was influenced by the music of Louisiana and early America, as well as the travelling subcultures of jazz and folkpunk. Her passion for European jazz and swing music developed into a passion for the soulful music of New Orleans’ traditional jazz, which she felt resonated with her experiences of travelling, heartache, and mysticism. 

She now lives off a year long arts funding for youth artists under 30 which she has received from the Quebec Government which pays for her living expenses and the recording of her next album.

​Lucy is also a visual artist with a degree in Painting & Drawing from Concordia University. Her experiences working in oil paints relates intellectually to her experience creating jazz arrangements, as she feels that her work as a painter speaks to the intuitive and spontaneous nature of creating an album with so much live improvisation. She is synesthetic, which means she has a neural cross over in which musical intervals and color relationships are very closely interwoven for her and can be experienced through her music. This analogous relationship between musical and artistic form influences her skills and passion for jazz improvisation.