Jacquelyn Hynes

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She Moves Through The Fair

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Released: Jun 1, 2012

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Bio

Folk musician and composer Jacquelyn Hynes plays silver and wooden flutes, whistles, pipes, sax, and piano. As a soloist she has supported leading traditional musicians from England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and Continental Europe including Martin Hayes, Karen Matheson, Michael McGoldrick, Mary Coughlan, Lunasa, Genticorum, Lily Neill, and ,ost recently Dónal Lunny. She's also performed d at the House of Lords and City Hall, and for two Irish Presidents, Mary Macaleese and Micheal D. Higgins on their visits to England. She received an Arts Council England Awards for All in 2007 for her Folk/World music project "Taraba" (which incoporated traditional and original music and musicians from England, India, Spain, North Africa and Ireland, Critic's Choice, Time Out and she now leads "Avalonia" which evolved from Taraba and sold out at London's Green Note in November 2011) and in 2008/9 was awarded the Katherine McGillivray "Get A Life Fund" which facilitated an MA in Advanced Performance at The Irish World Academy completed this year. In September 2010 she was a featured artist at And'Art International Festival in Morocco, collaborating with traditional Gnawa musicians and urban hip hop artists from Casablanca, where her composition Lost In Marrakech was chosen to reflect the theme of the residency in concert at the Theatre Royale, Marrakech.. Performances include QEH, Barbican, Haringey Irish Centre, House of Lords, Handel House, City Hall, Under One Sky Festival, Levellers Festival, Gollowan Festival, Ealing Jazz Festival, Ardoyne Fleadh Belfast, British Consulate Delhi, Oslo and Vollen Norway, Lovebox, BigSexyFest, Spitalfields Music Festival, Livestock, London Irish Centre, Irish Cultural Centre, Green Note Camden. She has also worked for over 30 theatre companies as an actor and musician and composed music for theatre including the mad songs for KAOS Theatre's Hamlet (in which she played"A tortured and Pre-Raphaelite Ophelia" - The Stage) the KAOS Kassandra, a song for Merlin at the Riverside Studios London (in which she played Guinevere) and Sinan Unel's Pera Palas at the Arcola Theatre Dalston. ( "Fine music" - The Times) Her work has been broadcast live by RTE and Clare FM. Her debut album "She Moves Through The Fair" is shortly to be released by Hobgoblin Records. Her new duo with folk-singer J.Eoin recently performed at Twickfolk, toured to Norway, performed at Folk Rising and supported the Dónal Lunny trio in London at the Irish Cultural Centre.

PRESS

"Outstanding flute playing" FolkandRoots.

"Gifted and innovative flute player" Irish In Britain.

"Inventive flute-player" Time Out Critic's Choice.

"Fine music" Michael Coveney /The Times.

"Transfixing playing" Kingsbury Guardian

"Brilliant multi-instrumentallist" Joe Giltrap / Irish Post

"Rare charisma' The Stage.

General Info

Genre: Acoustic / Experimental / Folk
Location London, Un
Profile Views: 22656
Last Login: 8/23/2011
Member Since 4/10/2006
Website myspace.com/jacquelynhynes
Record Label Hobgoblin Records
Type of Label Indie
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"Outstanding flute playing" FolkandRoots. "Gifted and innovative flute player" Irish In Britain. "Inventive flute-player" Time Out Critic's Choice. "Fine music" Michael Coveney/The Times. "Rare charisma' The Stage. .... .... Jacquelyn plays silver and wooden flutes, sax, piano and Uilleann pipes and also composes. She has supported Ireland's leading musicians including Martin Hayes, Michael McGoldrick, Mary Coughlan and Lunasa, performed with Donal Lunny and for President Mary Macaleese. She received an Arts Council England Awards for All for her Irish/World music project "Taraba" in 2007 and in 2008/9 was awarded the Katherine McGillivray "Get A Life Fund" which facilitated an MA in performance at The Irish World Academy completed this year. In September she was a featured artist at And'Art International Festival in Morocco, collaborating with traditional Gnawa musicians and urban hip hop artists from Casablanca, where her composition Lost In Marrakech was chosen to reflect the theme of the residency in concert at the Theatre Royale, Marrakech.. Performances include QEH, Barbican, London Irish Centre, Irish Cultural Centre, Haringey Irish Centre, House of Lords, Handel House, City Hall, Under One Sky Festival, Levellers Festival, Gollowan Festival, Ealing Jazz Festival, Ardoyne Fleadh Belfast, British Consulate Delhi, Dubliner Oslo, Green Note Camden. She has also worked for over 30 theatre companies as an actress and musician and composed music for theatre including the mad songs for KAOS Theatre's Hamlet (in which she played"A tortured and Pre-Raphaelite Ophelia" - The Stage) the KAOS Kassandra, a song for Merlin at the Riverside Studios London (in which she played Guinevere) and Sinan Unel's Pera Palas at the Arcola Theatre Dalston. Her work has been broadcast live by RTE and Clare FM. Her debut album "She Moves Through The Fair" is shortly to be released by Hobgoblin Records.
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influence c.1374, an astrological term, "streaming ethereal power from the stars acting upon the character or destiny of men"
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And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute