Monique is one of those people that is totally and utterly self-driven, creative, passionate,honest and stubborn in the best way possible. She is an independent singer-songwriter-cellist who was classically trained alongside her interests in folk music. She has travelled the world with music, she's taught cello in Afghanistan, held a residency at the Banff Centre, toured to the UK and the US and has toured Australia in her van whilst realising her debut album “Sight.” Monique and I have been friends for quite a while and have played in a bunch of different musical scenarios together. The main one being our contemporary folk quartet, The Mulberry Collective. We’ve done a duo tour along the East Coast of Australia together and we even played in an orchestra together when we studied at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, I think it might have been Strauss? It’s been so inspiring to watch Monique grow as a musician and person. Her music is honest and juggles her classical and folk technique with raw lyrics about heartbreak, her mind and home.

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