BlueJay are Bluegrass duo Wendy Bartlett and Roger Jackson.
With beautiful harmony vocals and well-crafted guitar accompaniment, they sing songs from American folk tradition with wit and fun.
Roger and Wendy share the lead singing duties and join together with well-blended harmonies. Roger’s guitar playing contributes a skilful accompaniment while Wendy from Carolina, is a born performer and brings life to the songs of her family and forebears. Their enjoyment of the music is infectious.
“Songs as they were intended to be sung - with joy and commitment” - Time Out
For all the Facebook Stage performances you will need to open the Folk Weekend Oxford Facebook page. (https://www.facebook.com/folkweekendoxford) The performances will 'go live' on there. They will all be available after the event as well in the videos section. All these performances are free, but do add to the performers' and/or FWO's tip box (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/folkweekendoxford)
Jackie is a singer and fiddle player hailing from Staffordshire and now living in Oxford. Her unique treatment of English ballads and songs, and pure, haunting singing style has attracted increasing attention. Since appearing as a finalist in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards 2003, she has performed extensively at festivals and folk clubs across the country, in a solo capacity and with a number of bands. Her second album 'The Violet Hour' was one of the Top 10 on the Mojo folk album of the year chart in 2008, followed by 'Hyperboreans' reaching number five in the chart the following year. Also in 2009 Jackie won two BBC Folk Awards - The Horizon Award for best new comer, and the Best Traditional Track Award. She is currently singing with her own band, and touring as a member of The Imagined Village alongside Eliza Carthy. When not busy with all this Jackie dances with 
John Spiers, known better in folk circles as Squeezy, has made a name for himself as one of the leading squeezebox players of his generation. Well known for his long-standing duo partnership with Jon Boden in the formidable Spiers & Boden as well as his contribution to the massively popular Bellowhead, John has also played with Eliza Carthy’s Ratcatchers and a number of local folk-dance bands.
In normal times we are always delighted to welcome Morris dancers to Folk Weekend, who perform in the streets and at fantastic locations across the City centre including the Botanic Gardens and the Ashmolean Museum. Things are a litte different at the moment, but Morris will return. For more information, go to our