Jackie Oates

Jackie Oates 2010
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About the artist

Jackie Oates (born Congleton, Cheshire, in 1983) is an English folk singer and fiddle player. In addition to her solo work, she has performed as part of the folk trio Wistman's Wood and she has sung with Morris Offspring. She was a member of Rachel Unthank & the Winterset between 2003 and 2007. Oates grew up in Staffordshire. At the age of 18, she went to study English literature at Exeter University, and was based in Devon until 2011, when she moved to Oxford.

Top songs

  1. Hyperboreans
  2. Dream Angus
  3. Past Caring
  4. Locks and Bolts
  5. Brigg Fair
  6. Dandling Songs
  7. The Sweet Nightingale
  8. Death and the Lady
  9. Waiting for the Lark
  10. Scarborough's Fair Town
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  1. Marrow Bones
  2. The Miller and His Three Sons
  3. May the Kindness
  4. Mother / Spring Is Coming Soon Reprise
  5. The Hills of Trencrom / Pedn Olva
  6. Wexford Lullaby
  7. Poor Murdered Woman
  8. Young Johnson
  9. Hail! Hail! The First of May
  10. Birthday
  11. Bi Bi Og Blaka
  12. Sleepers Awake
  13. Fire! Fire! (Fire Down Below)
  14. The pleasant month of may
  15. The Posy Rhyme
  16. The Worthy Wood Carol
  17. Young Leonard
  18. Alexander Beetle / Farewell Nel
  19. IOU
  20. The Trees They Are So High
  21. The Isle of France
  22. Junk
  23. Fin(n)ish(ish)
  24. Spring Is Coming Soon
  25. Four Pence a Day
  26. Fortune Turns the Wheel
  27. Pholomel
  28. When I Was A Lady
  29. Little Fishes / The Rainy Day Fisherman
  30. Banks of the Bann
  31. What's the Use of Wings?
  32. The butcher's boy
  33. Sofuou unga astin min / Sofi Sofi barnio
  34. The Joy of Living
  35. The Cradle is Green
  36. The Sheffield Grinder/Mavis
  37. The Halsway Carol
  38. Little Fishes/ The Rainy Day Fisherman
  39. Come Away, Come Away, Death
  40. Freedom Come All Ye
  41. John Blunt
  42. The Spyglass & The Herringbone
  43. Virginny
  44. Can't Be Sure
  45. Nay Ivy Nay
  46. Doffing Mistress
  47. Take This Letter to My Mother
  48. Lavenders Blue/Mazurka
  49. A Cornish Young Man
  50. Unicorns
  51. The Sheffield Grinder / Mavis
  52. Robbers' Retreat
  53. Rosy Apple
  54. My Shoes Are Made of Spanish
  55. Isle of France
  56. The Yellow Bittern
  57. The Devil and the Farmer's Wife
  58. Lark In The Morning
  59. Hey Ho, to the Greenwood
  60. Constellations
  61. The Last Trip Home
  62. Catch Me If You Can
  63. The Bird
  64. Month of May
  65. Sweet Farewell
  66. On and On
  67. Rolling Home
  68. A Three Part Song / Saturnine
  69. Alexander Beetle/ Farewell Nel
  70. Mormond Braes
  71. Robin Tells Of Winter/Gracious Wings
  72. Butchers Boy
  73. Wishfulness Waltz
  74. Waiting for the Lark - Live
  75. Young Lambs To Sell
  76. Love Vigilantes
  77. Untitled
  78. Young Donald
  79. The Flower Of Northumberland
  80. The Bonny Labouring Boy
  81. Hampton Lullaby
  82. Crockery Ware
  83. Richie's Lady
  84. The Streams of Lovely Nancy
  85. Lord Abore and Mary Flynn
  86. Rob Roy
  87. The Staffordshire Maid
  88. Hog-eyed Man
  89. The Mistletoe Bough
  90. Broken Town

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