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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 including Martin Hayes, Karen Matheson, Michael McGoldrick, Mary Coughlan, Lunasa, Genticorum, Lily Neill, Eleanor MacEvoy and Dónal Lunny. She's also performed 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 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, with Hossam Ramzy and Najma Akhtar. She was awarded the Katherine McGillivray "Get A Life Fund" for musicians which facilitated an MA in Advanced Performance at The Irish World Academy.

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. 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 and Glastonbury.

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) Most recently she was commissioned by Tyneside irish festival as composer for "Father Cass's Bodhran" ("songs composed and performed by the exceptionally talented Jacquelyn Hynes" Irish World)

Her debut album "Silver and Wood" (described as "Wild and lovely" by Dónal Lunny) 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. Her work has been broadcast on resonance FM, RTE and Clare FM.

Jacqy is an activist with the Musicians Union and is an elected member of the Folk Roots and Traditional Music Committee; The London Regional Committee and Chair of the Equalities Committee. She is also a Regional Board Representative for Comhaltas Ceoltóiri Eirann and an elected member of the Royal Society Of Musicians. Jacqy is currently Folk and Flute tutor at Morley College and Flute Coach for the award-winning Hackney Music Development Trust.

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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.

"Transfixing playing" Kingsbury Guardian

"Brilliant multi-instrumentallist" Joe Giltrap / Irish Post

"Exceptionally talented' Irish World.

"Rare charisma' The Stage.

General Info

  • Genre: Acoustic / Experimental / Folk

    Location London, Un

    Profile Views: 26173

    Last Login: 3/25/2013

    Member Since 4/10/2006

    Website myspace.com/jacquelynhynes

    Record Label Hobgoblin Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    "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" and was awarded the Katherine McGillivray "Get A Life Fund" which facilitated an MA in performance at The Irish World Academy completed in 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, 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. Most recently she was commissioned by Tyneside Irish Festival as composer for "Father Cass's Bodhran"

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  • Phyllis J. Lawrence

    Hey!i love you music


    2 years ago
  • Peter Pritchard

    Thanks for the friendship Jackquelyn.

    Greetings from New Zealand.

    2 years ago
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    Thanks for the ADD!

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    2 years ago
  • Luis Landa-Schreitt

    My Royal Hynes!


    What an honour!

    I'm ok, building bussines is giving me a severe headache due to the lack of work at the moment, but i'm playing quite frequently.

    How are you doing?

    XX

    3 years ago
  • Najma Akhtar

    ellooo beautiful



    3 years ago
  • Larsenbacher

    The Flute is so niceeeeeeeee:-) i love it!!!Cheers,Oliver

    3 years ago
  • Larsenbacher

    Very nice Music!Thanks for accepting my friendrequest and all the best for you...cheers.Oliver

    3 years ago
  • tony trundle

    hi jacquelyn
         glad to give ye a lift
             your musics lovely
                              tony trundle

    3 years ago
  • John Croarkin

    Thanks Jacquelyn for adding me a flute friend. Your playing is very beautiful, and moving.

    3 years ago
  • Edward (Teddy) Mikalski

    Its really great listening to you and you take me right back to my days in Bretagne .You are a joy to my ears Big hugs Teddy .:-)xx

    3 years ago
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