RackerJacq – Racker Donnelly & Jacquelyn Hynes
…a unique combination of spoken word and music from two mainstays on London’s folk scene
RACKER DONNELLY, a storyrhymer & entertainer, has done thousands of performances in Ireland, Britain, America & Australia.
His storyrhymes & songs, mostly comic, are about Sheep, Smoking, Tennis, Oysters, Joyce, Midsummer, Politics, Christmas, The Dublin Riviera, Yeats, Football, Dracula, Wilde, Foul Rulers, Goldilocks, Boris, Irish Proverbs, English History, Burns, Chaucer, Pigs, Woking, Yorkshire, plus several biographical tributes & whatever you’re having yourself.
JACQUELYN HYNES is a highly regarded folk flautist, rooted in Irish and English traditional music who has played alongside and supported many of Ireland’s leading artists including Liam Ó Maonlaí (UK tour); Martin Hayes, Michael McGoldrick, Mary Coughlan and Lunasa (ICC).
Her debut CD “Silver and Wood” received 4 star reviews from the Telegraph and RnR magazine, and was Album of the Week on BBC Radio nan Gaídheal.