Jackie Oates is an English folk singer and fiddle player.

Jackie Oates was born in Congleton in Cheshire in 1983.

[1] At the age of 18, she moved to Devon to study English literature at Exeter University and was based in Devon until 2011, when she moved to Oxford[2] where she lives with her young family.

She has performed as part of the folk trio Wistman's Wood and sung with Morris Offspring and The Imagined Village.

Her brother is English singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer Douglas Oates - better known as Jim Moray,[2] and they have guested on each other's albums.