Folk Bands and Artists
Monique Clare
Australia
Wielding a cello and strikingly crafted vocals, multi award-winning songwriter Monique Clare delivers impactful indie-folk. From tears to belly laughs, she weaves a cathartic story of grief and love through driving rhythms, heart-tugging harmonies and intricate cello lines. Her intrepid career has spanned teaching cello in war-torn Afghanistan, touring her critically acclaimed album ‘Sight’ to festivals across Europe, and leading hikers up to mountain top sunrise concerts. Monique’s disarmingly candid stage presence is born from years of touring the US, UK, Ireland and Canada with The Maes, playing cello for everyone from Kate Miller-Heidke to Eminem, and gracing stages from the Melbourne Cricket Ground to Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Featured on ABC’s The Music Show, described as a “laudable and overdue debut” by Listening Through The Lens, her 2022 debut album ‘Sight’ took out awards for album and song of the year at the AFMAs and QMAs. With a smile as wide as the Cheshire cat’s, and an audacious tendency to reveal her deepest secrets onstage, her live show is offbeat and mesmerising.
Genre: Contemporary folk
GIGS COMING UP
The Nest Collective
- Magpie´s Nest Festival - (London)
Angeline Morrison, Jali Bakary Konteh, amateur theatre group, Me Lost Me, Katie Spencer, Sam Grassie, Olayá, Daudi Matsiko, Monique Clare
Saturday 1st June · 3:00PM · Master Shipwright´s Palace · Deptford · £39
FolkandRoots
- Monique Clare - (London)
Monday 3rd June · 7:00PM · Green Note · Camden · £14