Lindsay Weinberg is a lifelong performer and natural educator. A Milwaukee native, her family of singers, teachers, conductors, and entertainers fostered her love of music and instilled the desire to nurture the rich experiences it can bring. She believes that music making is a joy which everyone can share. Whether teaching or performing, Lindsay is exuberant and personal, encouraging discovery and delight.
As a singer-songwriter, Lindsay Weinberg's soulful voice and colorful lyrics evoke the boisterous energy of Chicago summer, the dim corners of a cabaret, and the bright lights of Broadway. Lindsay tells her honest stories through subtle composition and details that stick, inviting us to join her adventure through the little things in life that make the biggest difference in the size of our hearts.
Lindsay is a music educator and performer for both kids and adults. She specializes in work with young children but teaches students of all ages, and has experience teaching one-on-one and in group settings, virtually and in person. Currently, she teaches private piano, guitar, and voice lessons out of her home studio in Logan Square and leads weekly music classes at all three branches of Stepping Stones Nursery School.
Lindsay has performed on stages across the midwest, on both US coasts, and internationally. She performs most frequently these days in the Fleetwood Mac tribute band Second Hand News, and presents her original lyrical piano-pop on stages around Chicagoland.
On her 2012 debut singer-songwriter album Skyscraper Queen of the Midwest, Lindsay's catchy sound was bolstered by a dozen fellow teachers and musicians from Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, creating a harmonic energy as strong as the wind whipping off of Lake Michigan, focused down city streets, and channelled directly into your beating heart. Her follow-up 2016 album What Do You Believe? took us on a more introspective route through the humorous, painful, but comforting corridors of self-knowledge. Here we are invited to share her secrets, which she offers on an open palm. During the pandemic years, Lindsay released the singles How Long Will We Wait? and There's a Little Light, and embarked on a project of daily videos of her original songs called Random Retrospective. In 2021 she released In the Middle, a triptych of three short albums: Souvenir, Shavasana, and Blossoming With the Spring. These songs accompany us as we look back at what was; we pause; and we begin to grow again.
Lindsay is a sought-after band member and collaborator. Along with her regular Second Hand News gigs, she has performed recently with Cult Canyon, Great Moments in Vinyl, Bethany Thomas's Transformer, and Jonas Friddle. Lindsay was a band member of Come Sunday, Conspiracy Theories, Lindsay and the Lights Go Out, The Ye-Ye's, Lindsay & The Shimmies, It's A Girl, and Baba Manouche. She made regular appearances with Mike Allemana, Mr. Nick & Friends, Congress of Starlings, Mr. & Mrs. Wednesday-Night, Someone Old Someone New, Little Queens, and the Fly Honey Show. Lindsay created and hosted the Cover to Cover series and podcast, in which three singer-songwriters present their own songs and cover each other's. She was selected to perform as an up-and-coming artist in the 2010 5x5 series at Théâtre Petit Champlain in Quebec, Canada, and went on a 6-city tour of teaching and performance through Colombia with Come Sunday in 2014.
Lindsay worked as a teaching artist with Ravinia's Reach Teach Play Music Discovery program for nine years, leading music residencies for K-3rd graders in CPS schools across the city. She taught at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music for 15 years, where she not only dedicated herself to the musicality of her students but also thoroughly invested herself in the children's music program and the OTSFM community. Her teaching began with Wiggleworms and children's piano classes and grew from there, as she founded the school's Young Voices program for children, designed and lead the Summer Doubleplay camp for 4 and 5 year olds, worked with many private lesson students, and taught outreach programs in CPS classrooms and at the Carole Robertson Center for Learning. Lindsay helped to form and lead the faculty union known as "OTTO," the Old Town Teachers Organization, and was one of its founding co-presidents. She received the Old Town School of Folk Music’s Distinguished Teaching Artist award in 2018.
Lindsay hails from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and thanks her big musical family for valuing creativity and encouraging her to be a performer from day one. She holds a degree in Women's and Gender Studies from Macalester College and has her Kodály Level II Music Education certification from DePaul. When she's not onstage, in the classroom, or at home with her husband Ben and cats Banjo and Baxter, Lindsay can be found in the bike lanes of Chicago, singing her way to the next gig.
