Marie-Lynn Hammond (born August 31, 1948) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter, broadcaster and playwright.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to a Franco-Ontarian mother and an Anglo-Quebecer father, she is fluently bilingual and writes and performs material in both English and French.
[2] She has also written several plays, including the bilingual musical Beautiful Deeds/De beaux gestes[3] and the drama White Weddings,[4] and was co-writer with Brigitte Berman of the screenplay to the 1994 film The Circle Game.
[5] Her friends organized two benefit concerts at Hugh's Room in January 2007 to help raise money for her non-insured health care costs and lost income due to her inability to work.
[5] People who appeared at the concerts included Bob Bossin, Stuart McLean, Eve Goldberg, Garnet Rogers, Nancy White, Sylvia Tyson, Don Ross, Rick Salutin, Jian Ghomeshi and Mike Ford.