A number of years ago I temporarily stayed in a cottage close to an old ruin in the middle of Rathlin. Sitting there one evening I was inspired to write a song called ‘Rathlin Island Lore’. My friend Teresa subsequently told me some of the history of the ruin, (which had been the home of her great, great grandfather), and also kindly allowed me to take some video footage. A couple of weeks ago we showed the video in the pub on Rathlin for the first time. After many requests i have now made the video ‘public’ on YouTube… I hope you enjoy it!
Rathlin Sound Festival 2024
As part of this year’s Rathlin Sound Maritime Festival, Wendy Jack was proud to present a very special and unique concert. Wendy performed a selection of songs each in someway inspired by Rathlin and her time living and working on the island. The concert took place in the beautiful surrounds of St. Thomas’s Church on Rathlin, situated right at the harbour looking out across the ‘Sound’.
Each of Wendy’s special guests provided extra magical moments… from the beautiful songs of renowned singer Jean Cleary to the intricate heartfelt harmonica playing from the legend Hugh Hainey. Then, a fitting finalé of sea shanties from the amazing ‘Tuned In Collective’ – pure joy!
Thanks to everybody who helped to make this event such a great success.
Here’s a short highlights video…
Daffodils on Rathlin – charity greeting card
Available until end of April 2020 – Daffodils on Rathlin charity greeting card
During the spring of 2020, Wendy is raising money for Marie Curie through the sale of specially created greeting cards. They are printed on RECYCLED CARD & the inside has been left blank for your own message. If you would like to support this project please get in touch. You can order packs of cards through my on-line shop – CLICK HERE. These beautiful greeting cards feature a scene on Rathlin Island and are available to buy in packs of 5 or 10 etc. If you have a shop, community group, business or other outlet where you can re-sell the cards individually then please let me know. For example you might like to order 25, 50, 100, 200 cards? Just increase the quantity of packs proportionately as you check out your basket in my on-line shop and let me know if you’d like me to list you as a business/outlet/community group/individual who stocks this charity card. Any questions please just send me a message to:
Sincere thanks to everyone who is buying and helping to sell these cards or is spreading the word to others who may be interested. Please do get in touch if you want to be more involved.
Individual cards are available to buy from:
Rathlin Island Post Office (& Treasure Island Gift Shop)
Rathlin Island Community Shop (The Rathlin Co-op)
Message from the charity:
At Marie Curie we believe that every day of your life matters. When you are living with a terminal illness you feel that more than ever. We want people to make the most of the time they have together and we also want to ensure that everyone gets the care and support they need, wherever they live. All funds raised will help us continue to support patients and their families across northern Ireland. Thank you so much for supporting Marie Curie.
Wendy Jack @ The Rathlin Sound Maritime Festival 2019
Ahoy there!!
The amazing Rathlin Sound Maritime Festival runs from Friday 24th May – Sunday 2nd June 2019 (Across the Sound from Ballycastle to Rathlin).
Wendy Jack Music will be ‘popping up’ here and there to entertain… look out for up-dates & notices from me through my social media channels – twitter, instagram, facebook @wendyjackmusic
Who will join me for some Maritime Merriment??
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New ‘Sunsets’ album – digital release 14 February 2019
Wendy Jack is releasing a new retrospective album called ‘Sunsets’. It will be available on all the usual digital platforms from Thursday 14th February 2019 (Bandcamp, Spotify etc.)
Overview
The ‘Sunsets’ album is a collection of 8 tracks I recorded 2011 – 2014 and includes a couple of tracks not previously released. The track listing is in chronological order. During this period I was experimenting with different song writing techniques… writing from the heart, writing from the head, writing to brief, asking my Facebook fans for inspiration, etc. So, the result is a little bit eclectic in terms of subject matter. All of the tracks were recorded and produced in collaboration with Bill Shanley in Dublin (except ‘Pangaea’ which I produced and recorded myself – Pangaea is my ode to The Sperrins mountain range in County Tyrone and is the soundtrack to a time-lapse video created by local photographer Aidan Monaghan – it can be viewed here on my website). On the other 7 tracks Bill Shanley contributed his exceptional guitar skills and we brought in a couple of other musicians to give the songs more depth. For example, Ronan Browne plays low whistle on the opening track ‘Derrylahan Dream’ and on the last track ’90 Degrees’ I recorded with a full band. We were mostly aiming for an Irish-Acoustic-Folk-Pop feel… except on ‘Crash Land’ where it gets a bit more Rock Sci-Fi 🙂 The first 4 songs originally appeared on the Limited Edition Wendy Jack EP ( a few signed copies are still available from my website shop). It included my debut single ‘Sunsets’ which the album is now named after. The song ‘Sunsets’ previously achieved some critical success receiving awards from two international song contests… I am now delighted to re-release all these tracks in the form of my new ‘Sunsets’ album and finally make all songs available on the usual digital music platforms. The stories behind most of the songs are given here on my website.
These past few years I’ve been hibernating on beautiful Rathlin island… taking a bit of time out to work on some other projects and gain more inspiration for my song writing. Now I am re-launching myself with the release of this retrospective album and hope to be out and about playing and collaborating with other musicians whenever possible. See the EVENTS section for details of up-coming gigs.
All the best for 2019,
Go raibh mile maith agat !