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Sweet June

About Me

Sweet June was born in late 2008 and debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in August that year to wonderful reviews

"...This is beautiful, organic contemporary Irish music with traditional elements peeping through..."
3 Weeks [official Edinburgh Festival live review]

Formed out of love of the 60's and 70's acid folk ethos it fuses contemporary melodies and guitar-based riffs. More akin to a freestyle Pentangle sound with overtones of John Martyn thrown in, Mia and John perform with an intense percussive style of complex finger-picking coupled with sublime vocal harmonies.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/06/2007
Band Website: virb.com/sweetjune
Band Members: Maria Fitzgerald and John McGlynn and in this case the wonderful Fiona Wight!
Influences: Pentangle, Vashti Bunyan, Mellow Candle, Clannad, Nick Drake, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, Shelagh Mac Donald, The Jam, John Martyn, The Beatles, The Free Design, Anuna
Sounds Like:

Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New vid and other stuff

By new please read "old"The first live gig featuring Ciara Dunlea done in the summer of 2007. Excuse the synching, at the end we were lucky to get any footage at all!I've posted a couple of new gigs t...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:07:00 GMT

The Barrow Song

Just posted a new vid. It's rough and hasn't been completely edited yet but while the weather is as bad as this we thought we'd put it up prematurely to remind you of what summer should be like!Much s...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:23:00 GMT

Sweet June video posted at last!

Hi all!FINALLY we've put up our video filmed last month on the strand in Blackrock in Dublin. The singer is Fiona Wight who kindly flew over to get soaked and have daffodils thrown at her!Let us know ...
Posted by on Wed, 06 May 2009 16:09:00 GMT

What we have done and what we are doing

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 "Fionngh...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:28:00 GMT