There’s something very special about a Saturday afternoon spent watching live music. Everything just stops. All of the hassle, all of the heartache just melts away. This is the second of Downend Folk and Roots’ Saturday lunchtime gigs and Jackie Oates proves herself to be the perfect guest for a laid-back, inclusive, gentle hour (orContinue reading “Jackie Oates – Downend Folk & Roots – November (lunch time concert)”
Tag Archives: Jackie Oates
Jackie Oates & John Spiers – Downend Folk & Roots – December
Not all Christmas concerts have tinsel and fairy lights, not all have you rockin’ around a Christmas tree or wishin’ it could be Christmas every day. Not all are polished to a high sheen or come gift wrapped. Some Christmas concerts are dark and frosty, they are full of shadows and the glimmer of aContinue reading “Jackie Oates & John Spiers – Downend Folk & Roots – December”
Jackie Oates – December 2019
Sometimes the best Christmas presents are the unexpected ones. They’re not the ones that you asked for. Not the ones that you dropped heavy hints for. Not the ones that you carefully write on a note on the fridge. They are the delightfully dizzying ones. The ones that show how much someone cares. Tonight theContinue reading “Jackie Oates – December 2019”
Jackie Oates – July 2015
Earlier this year the decidedly un-Folk folk at Classic FM voted The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams as their favourite piece of classical music. Its heart-stopping violin line echoing the sound and flight of a lark, it never fails to bring a tear to the flintiest of eyes. It also conjures a particular Englishness.Continue reading “Jackie Oates – July 2015”
TallFolk 