Lily Henley is an American award-winning folk singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for her synergistic exploration of both Sephardic and American folk traditions.
She has performed extensively across North America as a solo and with others, including Grammy nominated artists Rushad Eggleston, David Krakauer, The Duhks, and Irish guitar virtuoso John Doyle.
Lily Henley’s first release, Words Like Yours was produced by renowned composer and bassist Omer Avital and was featured in numerous publications as well as on NPR and the BBC. The single and music video for her subsequent EP with producer and multi-instrumentalist Jake Sherman (Nick Hakim, Andrew Byrd, Emily King) was featured at the POOL festival of dance in Berlin.
She has two upcoming albums, Imperfect By Design, an Indie Folk anthology about love, belonging, independence, and change, and Oras Dezaoradas, a collection of brand new Judeo-Spanish Folk Songs highlighting feminine perspectives on transience, heartbreak and autonomy.
Lily Henley was recognized as a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow Finalist in Music/Sound from The New York Foundation for the Arts and is the recipient of a 2021-2022 Fulbright grant, the first recipient to France in the discipline of World Music. During her residency at the Cité internationale des arts, she will work on a song project in English and Judeo-Spanish.