Sweet June
Folk / Experimental / Psychedelic
Dublin, Ireland
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About
Sweet June brings the ethos of 70's acid folk and fuses it with contemporary melodies and guitar-based riffs. More akin to a free-style Pentangle sound with overtones of Jose Gonzales thrown in, Mia, John and Fiona perform with an intense percussive style of complex finger-picking coupled with sublime vocal harmonies.
"...This is beautiful, organic contemporary Irish music with traditional elements peeping through..."
3 Weeks [official Edinburgh Festival live review]
John co-directs [with his twin brother Michael] the cult Irish group Anuna and has worked with Elvis Costello, Jeff Buckley, Sinead O'Connor and Moya Brennan. In 2005 his vocal arrangement of "Fionnghuala" appeared on the "The Chieftains: Live from Dublin: A Tribute to Derek Bell" and sang with Sting on the Grammy-winning "The long Black Veil". He featured on Jerry Fish's Meteor Irish Music Award winning album "Be Yourself" on backing vocals with Damien Rice. His work has appeared on most of Anuna's 10 studio albums. His solo album "Songs for a Fallen Angel" features his characteristic refined guitar and vocals. The first track "If all she has is you" was covered on Owen Brady's debut album "Prepare to be happy" released April 2008 by Sony BMG. In 2008 he appeared as special guest at Cork Opera house and The Olympia theatre Dublin for the recently re-formed legendary Irish band Moving Hearts. John is an accomplished photographer and designer and qualified from Trinity College Dublin as an Architect in 1990.
His album "Songs for a Fallen Angel" has just been nominated for a JPF award as the best Contemporary Music Album of 2009. This is the biggest Awards ceremony in the world with 42,000 albums reviewed.
Multi-instrumental, multi-lingual, actress, Maria "Mia" Fitzgerald played the piano at 3, the guitar at 5, the drums at 11 and the bass at 12. She's studied Sound Engineering Music Technology and regularly works with multi-Grammy award winning Brian Masterson. She has also worked with Conrad Pope [Star Wars/Harry Potter/Jurassic park], Orchestrator/arranger Nick Ingam [Madonna/McCartney/Bowie/George Michael/Whitney Houston], Katie Melua, Cara Dillon, Glen Hansard [The Frames] Donal Lunny and The Chieftains. Most recently she played with Sinead O'Connor and the Hoosiers on the longest-running chat show in the world, The Late Late Show. Mia released her first demo EP at 16 and received [and maintains] intense interest from major record labels and management companies in the UK.
Fiona won the BBC UK Choirgirl of the Year twice, touring concert venues and arenas across 20 countries and subsequently joining the National Youth Choir of Great Britain as soloist on a prestigious world tour. She studied voice and performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She moved to Ireland and joined world renowned Celtic vocal group Anúna touring Europe and America. Fiona became lead singer in Riverdance in 2005 touring Europe, Japan, Taiwan and America for 3 years. She has sung privately for the British royal family at St James’s Palace and for the Irish President on her State Visit to South America. Her debut solo album ”The Last Rose” is signed to American label Renaissance Records.
Fiona is appearing as Guinevere in the major new show Excalibur, debuting at Kaltenberg Castle in Germany. The show will form part of the largest mediaeval festival in Europe for its 30th anniversary, bringing together musicians such as Jacqui McShee, Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull.
