Live dates coming up next week: Jackie will be performing a set featuring beautiful traditional Cornish material as part of her performance celebrating St. Piran’s Day at The ICA in London on Friday 5th March.  She will also play The Great Hall, Dartington (6th Mar), Llanhennock Village Hall in South Wales (7th Mar), Nettlebed Folk Club (8th Mar) and Howard Assembly Room at Opera North (12th Mar) before heading out to Texas the following week.

As Jackie and the band prepare for their trip to New York and then on to Austin for their performance as part of the English folk showcase ‘Looking For A New England’ at SXSW in mid-March, Looking For A New England has gone on line to preview the event and activity happening around the shows.  For more information go to:

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Looking For A New England on Facebook

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Looking For A New England on Youtube

Jackie has been chosen to perform at a special English folk showcase, titled ‘Looking For A New England’, at South-By-South-West music conference in Austin Texas in March 2010.  She will also perform in New York with the showcase line up, three days before her Texas show.  The full line up for both events includes Jim Moray, Olivia Chaney, Gadarene, The Unthanks and Trembling Bells with designs for the showcase brochure provided by David Owen who provided artwork for Jackie’s recent single ‘Birthday’.  The showcase is managed by British Underground who were also responsible for the Amy Winehouse showcase at SXSW in 2007.  For more info go to live dates.

On March 15th 2010 One Little Indian Records will release a second single from Hyperboreans.  This will be a double A-side with the BBC Folk Award-nominated version of Isle Of France and a new edit of May The Kindness titled May The Kindness(Now We Part).  The single will be available as download only from all good online stores.

New live dates have just been added to the site including special guest appearances by Jackie on The Imagined Village tour and a performance at London’s ICA as part of their St. Piran’s Day event.  Go to the live dates page for more details.

The plaudits keep on rolling in with Jackie now named female vocalist of the year in the Fatea Awards for 2009.   Sitting along side her nomination for the Folk Singer of the Year Award in the BBC Folk Awards 2010, it confirms again the Jackie’s achievements in 2009.  For full details on all Fatea Award winners click here.

One of our favourite websites – spiralearth.co.uk – has established its very own awards with winners being decided by public vote.  Jackie has been nominated in the category for the best interpretation of a traditional song for ‘The Pleasant Month of May’ from Hyperboreans.  To vote for Jackie click here.  Jackie is also a featured vocalist on the Show of Hands track ‘Keys Of Canterbury’ which is nominated in the same category.

The nominations for the BBC Folk Awards 2010 were announced on The Mike Harding Show last night (Weds 2nd).  Jackie Oates and her new album Hyperboreans have picked up an astounding three nominations for the Album of the Year Award, Folk Singer of the Year Award and Best Traditional Track for ‘Isle of France’ from Hyperboreans.  The Award ceremony is held in London on 1st February 2010, and broadcast on BBC Radio 2 the following Wednesday.

Hyperboreans was released outside of the UK this month and reviews are starting to roll in from the international press.  Hyperboreans is this week’s album of the week in Austria’s Der Standard – see here to see the review.  Hyperboreans was also reviewed in last weekend’s special edition of the major Austrian daily The Kurier.  Meanwhile the album scored 8 out of 10 in the mainstream Swedish monthly magazine Sonic.

For the second year in a row a Jackie Oates album has featured in Mojo’s top ten folk albums of the year.  Hyperboreans has reached number 5 on the end of year album chart of 2009 in this the biggest specialist music magazine in the UK.