User:Patrickjackman

Pat Jackman is a Wexford based freelance arts administrator, musician and sound engineer, working primarily in theatre and contemporary dance. He also provides performance arts sound design, sound recording, editing and foley facilities for theatre practitioners, choreographers and dance companies and independent film makers.

Pat was chair and co-founder of music education charities Gorey and Wexford Music Centres and is still heavily involved in the support and promotion of Arts throughout Wexford. He is a member of the Wexford Arts Centre music steering committee.

Pat is vocal in obtaining rights for victims of sexual abuse, was involved in the formation of the Ferns Enquiry and was a director of victims abuse support organisation One-In-Four.

Pat is backing vocalist and percussionist with The Jackmans, the first Irish band to release a ska album, which subsequently went into the Irish top twenty. He also has a long standing love affair with choral music, and has won many National and International awards with various choirs and ensembles.

Pat is survived by his children Whack and Crab, and longs for the day he finds his little cottage in Andalusia to curl up and die in..