Yvonne Lyon is a Scottish musician, who primarily plays an acoustic folk music sound with roots and folk rock elements. She was part of the Glasgow-based band, Land, from 1997 until 2000. Her solo music career started in 2001, with her first individual release occurring in 2002. She was born, Yvonne Whitty, in Scotland. She initially had a career as a music teacher. She met her future husband, when she was touring with the worship band, Land, where her husband, David Lyon, was a member of the celtic rock band, The Electrics.
Her music recording career commenced in 1997, with Land, who would release three albums, Down the Mountain Slowly in 1997, Rain in the Springtime in 1998, and Point Me to the Skies in 1999. She started her solo-musical career in 2001, and has since released seven albums, Horizon Searching in 2002, Fearless in 2005, A Thousand Questions Why in 2007, Ashes & Gold in 2009, More Than Mine in 2012. These Small Rebellions in 2013, Held in 2015, Metanoia (2017) and most recently Growing Wild (2020). Also, she has released one extended play, Journey, in 2003, as Yvonne Whitty.
In 2016, Lyon recorded the album The Space Between with her husband, and singer-songwriter Gareth Davis-Jones. Based on the Sermon on the Mount, she performed the music in a series of concerts in support of the charity Tearfund later in the year. In 2018, she collaborated with poet and broadcaster Stewart Henderson on Vesper Sky. She has a Masters Degree in Songwriting and Performance from the University of the West of Scotland and is a Burnsong International Songwriting Competition winner.
Her brand new album Growing Wild is her tenth solo studio release, further demonstrating her ability to deliver engaging original material with fresh imagination. Growing Wild further establishes Yvonne as one of Scotland’s most prolific singer/songwriters and is enhanced by a range of collaborators, most noticeably the guest performance of Eddi Reader on Compass Hill. Featuring twelve original tracks, including co-writes with Beth Nielsen Chapman, Boo Hewerdine, Stewart Henderson, Dan Wheeler, Julie Lee and David Lyon, Yvonne continues to demonstrate her strength as an evolving artist, unafraid to paint with a broad and eclectic musical palette.
We were fortunate enough to have Yvonne play for us at Live @ Costa in 2019 and as I who is in possession of her Metanoia album, she is certainly worth gettting see if only on YouTube for the moment.
