Liz Hanley is a Brooklyn based singer and fiddle player across many genres.

Growing up in Boston in an Irish Hungarian American family, Liz Hanley learned traditional fiddle tunes from her father/fiddle player Andy Hanley, songs and stories from her grandparents Martin Hanley, Rita McNamara and Ray Nagy and family friends Brian and Lindsay O’Donovan. She attended the New England Conservatory Preparatory school where she studied under Blanka Bednarz and then Eric Rosenblith. Hanley continued on to earn a BM in violin performance from NYU studying under Arturo Delmoni. It was at NYU that Hanley met and studied with the late great Dr. Mick Moloney. She has toured globally with Moloney and the Green Fields of America, as well as prog folk rock ensemble Frogbelly and Symphony and chamber rock band Emanuel and the Fear.

Hanley spent many years living between Brooklyn, NY and Sheffield, England, immersed in the both city’s rich folk music scenes and collecting songs and tunes. Today she can be found mostly playing around NYC in the Irish traditional seisiún scene.

“Liz Hanley is a singer with the sort of crystal-clear, instantly ingratiating voice that has always been a hallmark of progressive folk-rock” and Irish Music Magazine writes “Liz Hanley has that uncanny knack and the distinctive voice to reawaken our interest in the familiar…”

Hanley’s debut album “The Ecstasy of St Cecilia” was hailed “a gentle work of beauty” by FolkWorld. Hanley’s sophomore album will be arriving in 2024. Both records feature long time collaborators and friends Jefferson Hamer and Eamon O’Leary of the Murphy Beds.

Liz Hanley teaches workshops in singing and fiddle playing at various camps such as Acadia Festival of Traditional Music and Dance, The Catskills Irish Arts Week, The Irish Music School of Chicago, and the Augusta Irish retreat. Hanley’s personal experience with vocal injury has influenced how she teaches singing. Her workshops address how the voice works and how to think about the health of this instrument housed in the body.

Hanley is also a plant based nutrition aficionado who completed a certificate program at the T Colin Campbell Institute at eCornell in 2022.