Introduction
Jackie Oates is an English folk singer and fiddle player.
She was born in Congleton in Cheshire in 1983, but grew up in Staffordshire. At the age of 18, she moved to Devon to study English literature at Exeter University, and was based in Devon until 2011, when she moved to Oxford. She was a member of Rachel Unthank and the Winterset between 2003 and 2007.
She was a finalist in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk award in 2003, and was one of the nominees for the Horizon Award in 2008, going on to win that award in 2009, as well as the award for best traditional track for her recording of "The Lark in the Morning".
In addition to her solo work, she has performed as part of the folk trio Wistman's Wood and sung with Morris Offspring and The Imagined Village.
Her brother is the singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer Jim Moray, and they have guested on each other's albums.
Discography
- Solo albums
- Jackie Oates (Hands On Music HMCD25, 2006)
- The Violet Hour (Chudleigh Roots CR002, 2008)
- Hyperboreans (One Little Indian TPLP1034CD, 2009)
- Saturnine (ECC Records ECC004, 2011)
- Lullabies (ECC Records ECC009, 2013)
- The Spyglass & The Herringbone (ECC Records, 2015)
- With other acts
- Cruel Sister – Rachel Unthank and the Winterset (Rabble Rouser RR005, 2005)
- Bending The Dark – The Imagined Village (ECC Records ECC006, 2012)
- Gallacher, Alex (20 March 2015). "Jackie Oates New album & Tour: The Spyglass & The Herringbone". Folk Radio UK. Retrieved 12 May 2015.