Jacquelyn Hynes – Musician

The Red Hedgehog in Highgate with guest Brian Gascgoine. Thursday 19th May

"Fine Music"

The Times

“Haunting and wonderful”

The Telegraph

“Exceptionally talented”

Irish World

“Innovative and gifted”

Irish in Britain

Reviews for Silver and Wood

Available to buy now at Hobgoblin Music

Album of the Week Radio nan Gaidheal, Caithream Ciuil BBC Radio Scotland.

Added to the best folk albums of the year is the debut from Jacquelyn Hynes, ‘Silver and Wood’. This talented multi-instrumentalist shows she can play at an ideal tempo, allowing each lovely note, phrase and melody to breathe. A fine debut album.

The strength of this album (and there are many) is that it brings Hynes’ innate sense of innovation to the table. Ethereal and other-worldly, but also attractively contemporary

Full of innovation and imagination … bewitching. A cracking debut album

She plays flute the way Ben Webster plays sax – all air and space and breathy urgency. Some cleverly constructed pieces here too including the superb “Gini’s Tune”

Solid Celtic folk with many imaginative surprises

A set of remarkable recordings with Greensleeves and She Moves Through the Fair being stand-out tracks

It immediately reminded me of some of the early Altan CDs like Red Crow; it is that good. A fine debut CD from a talented lady

Jacquelyn Hynes is an eye-opening musician … every fibre of her being is used in making sure that what you hear, you fall hopelessly in admiration with