Jacqueline Roberts is well known in the Bluegrass area for her long association with John Jacob Niles and for her extensive performing and teaching career. She edited The Songs of ]ohn ]acob Niles, published by the Mark Foster Music Company in 1982, selecting and editing the last eight songs in that edition. Her memoirs of the work with John Jacob Niles has been published by the University of Kentucky Libraries, Occasional Paper No. 13 in 2001.

A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a Master of :Music degree from Miami University,  Oxford Ohio, she was adjunct professor at Asbury College, and for thirteen years adjunct professor of voice at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY..

Jackie is a member of National Association of Teachers of Singing, a Charter member of Lexington Federated Music Club, and a member of the National Society of Arts and Letters, Kentucky Chapter. , Professionally, she sang with the Roger Wagner Chorale in California.  She has performed leading roles in summer theatre at Cain Park Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio.  She was one of the charter members of the Lexington Musical Theatre, and also served on the Board of that organization.  In her private studio,  Ms. Roberts has taught many young voice students, preparing them with an "Audition for College" to go on to study at colleges and universities all over the country. Several of her students have performed on Broadway.

Family

Jacqueline Roberts lives with her husband Helm Roberts, an architect/planner in Lexington, Kentucky. Helm is notable as the designer of the unique Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Frankfort, KY, a sundial where the tip of the gnomon shadow touches the name of the deceased on the day that each was killed. Her son Bruce is President of the Carolina Financial Group of Brevard, North Carolina, and her son ]ohn is a practicing Veterinarian and animal pathologist, now teaching at the University of Florida, who spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal.  Jackie and Helm have five grandchildren.