Biography
Job title: Associate Professor in Folk, Roots and Blues
Courses taught: BA (Hons) Music (Folk)
Instruments taught: Irish Flute, Tin Whistle, Low Whistle, Uilleann Pipes
Specialisms: Irish traditional Music, Instrumental Folk Music, Protest song
Jacquelyn is a renowned folk flautist known for her mesmerising live performances, whose 2014 album “Silver and Wood” received stunning reviews and was Album of the Week on BBC Radio nan Gaídheal.
Arts Council England supported an album tour of the North in 2015 and she was invited as an official showcase artist to Folk Alliance International US.
Jacquelyn performs internationally as a solo artist and as a performer in other projects and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, US Radio and Irish radio.
Recently Jacquelyn toured with Liam Ó Maonlaí of Hothouse Flowers on his solo UK tour. She performed as part of the band for the RTE Ireland 100 Concert in Dublin last Autumn.
She wrote and performed additional music for Rebel Song by Dickens and Wright at the Other Palace in London and has composed music for theatre including KAOS Theatre, The Gate, Snap Theatre, The Arcola, Riverside Studios and Tyneside Irish Festival.
She has taught at Morley College, EFDSS, City Lit (UK) and Munster Music Academy (Ireland)
She has been guest lecturer in Folk at the Institute for Contemporary Performance in London and visiting workshop leader/tutor at London’s Wigmore Hall, The Irish Embassy, Oxford University Cambridge Music Trust, and Kimpton and Sidmouth Folk Festivals.
Jacquelyn is a member of the EDSS Folk Educator’s Group, the Musicians Union (Where she served on the Executive Committee for four years and chaired the Equalities Committee for two years) and elected member of the Court of Assistants of the Royal Society of Musicians.
Awards/Releases/Credits/Achievements:
- Associate Artist Goldfinch Whistles
- Silver and Wood (Proper Records 2014)
"Ethereal and other-worldy, yet also attractively contemporary" (IrishWorld)
"Full of innovation and imagination (Irish Post)
"Haunting and wonderful" (Telegraph Folk Albums of the Year)
