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Interesting Music Promotions are delighted to announce:-

Saturday 22nd November 2003
Dr Drakes Doors 8.00pm
Fee £5.00

Featuring the very best of Scottish female singer songwriters
for a very RARE gathering in Aberdeen.

Monica Queen with Johnny Smillie
Kathryn Sawers
Jo McCafferty

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Monica Queen has sang "Streets of Baltimore" with the Jayhawks, "Cortez the
Killer" with Grant Lee Buffalo, "Fairytale of New York" with Shane McGowan.
She was also the singer in Thrum who starred on the Word, were featured in
Mojo, appeared many times in session on Mark Radcliffe's show and made a
wonderful album 'Rifferama' in San Francisco. With Thrum, Monica was
compared to many great singers such as Emmylou Harris and Maria McKee.
Monica now records/performs under her own name but works closely with Johnny
Smillie from Thrum. The result of their work together is 'Ten Sorrowful
Mysteries' and was released through Creeping Bent on the Feb 2002.
Following the release of this album Monica was dubbed by Uncut magazine as
the "Royal Highness Of Glumbient Folk. Her voice was described by Mojo
magazine in reference to her contribution to the Belle and Sebastian hit -
Lazy Line Painter Jane - as "Lifting the song to another, devastatingly
human level, like a back street, whiskey-drenched Emmylou" Together with
Johnny Smillie (producer and guitarist) They have made "One of the most
heart rendingly powerful records you will hear-a work touched with genius"
(Metro), "In strong contention for solo debut album of the year" (Scotland
On Sunday) The key elements are "Johnny Smillie's aching guitar and Queens
lovelorn voice which "Make a spine tingling combination"(Scotsman) and
"Superbly haunting electronica" which "make for a truly original sound"(The
List)

Kathryn Sawers is another original performer. Her intense performance style
is a double edged sword. Akin to Tori Amos with similarities to Cerys
Mathews yet in truth comparable to no one. Her husky, stark breathless
vocals accompanied on piano playing which is at times melodic and at other
times brutal. She sits serenely, beautifully at the piano, she looks like an
angel. And then she starts, she stares at the audience, she's staring at you
and it is frightening! Try and avoid the witchy eye contact, she's going to
get you. Last year Kathryn recorded one of the greatest unreleased albums of
all time which if it ever see the light of day would surely establish her as
one of our most unique singer/songwriters.

"Scary, but as special as buttons"

Jo McCafferty has been performing since the age of fourteen. Her first
album, "Nothing Whispered to Katy" was created at age seventeen the day
after leaving school and received wide acclaim, this recording led to her
taking part in and leading many different projects within the Aberdeen music
circuit. Jo has enjoyed supporting various singer/songwriters who have
played in Aberdeen; these include acts such as Dr. Robert, Lucy Kaplansky,
Carol Laula, Horse, Glen Tilbrook, Midge Ure, Fish, Donnie Munro and David
Kitts. Towards the end of 2001 Jo started work on the long awaited second album,
"Radiaxial". Throughout this period Jo's profile rose as she started to play
live again more and more. The album is an acoustic album, designed to
showcase the songs and Jo's voice. Jo's work has been a big hit round the
world with one German fan writing: "Radiaxal is strong, haunting and
intensely personal... Poetry and storytelling rolled into one... Radiaxal is
a beautiful, sparse instrumented album, lyrically poignant and stunning in
its power and emotional intimacy." Jo has just released a new acoustic album
called 'The Eight Year Gap" which is comprised of sessions recorded between
'Nothing Whispered to Katy' and Radiaxial.