Bob, email me on mclaw at btinternet dot com please, I had been trying to find your phone number to call you to tell you, and to make certain you were included in the wake plan.

If I don't make the Riverside at Horton Kirby Sunday can you please if you are there tell people and also tell them that there will be a folk wake and they should watch this space for detail?

Rachel and I will be at Hazlitt Folk (at the Old House at Home, Pudding Lane Maidstone, for kibitzers who may be interested) and will also sing (I/we plan to attempt a couple of Jacqui's songs) Thursday 15th and it is a charity evening for a charity to be selected by me as Jacqui's executor. Next week definites (maybe not including Rachel) include the Canopus, Hill Road, Rochester, Tuesday, and the Greyhound, Maidstone, Thursday. Possibles this week include Daz and Man's club at the Three Mariners, Near Rainham (Lower Road) Friday

Pete Hicks (Slattery and Skinner's Rats) has given me some details of Jacqui before I knew her, and I will need to reduce them to writing and check them with Barry her first husband (who was a killer blues player, made it as far as BBC Radio 2 and an invitation from a very well known psychedelic band to work with them which he did not accept and I hope to entice out of retirement for the wake) before posting.

Anyone who remembers her from Phoebus Wakes, The Drovers, the Chapmen, the West County tour with the Yetties, Nottingham Traditional Music CLub or anywhere else she residented or played, please PM or email me.

I am particularly keen to trace the middle years (her 20s)when she rubbed shoulders with Donovan, Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart, Hughie Flint, Dave and Toni Arthur, Ben Mayall (son of John Mayall) the late great Jo-Ann Kelly, etc and I think I am right threw Eric Burdon out of a party for pissiing down Donovan's leg. If you have stories of her (good or bad, I'll edit, and I know she was no saint) please PM or email me.

Some of the stuff may make a mini-feature in "What's On Folks" to be written by Simon Barlow who remembers seeing her play with the Chapmen in the early 60s, in Southampton.

Contact details for any other members of her early bands would also be good research material - for example Dave Cooper who was I think in the Chapmen and if my information is correct is now singing US-style sacred mouth music in the Nottingham (UK) area.