Jo Meares will be playing with a full band at The Django Bar on September 11th including Reuben Alexander on drums/harmonica and Kari Pihl on piano/organ - the musicians Jo recorded his latest and third album ‘King of the Crystal Mountain’ with.

Mood and atmosphere are key factors in the creation of immersive and transportive music and Jo Meares' music is richly imbued with both. Eerie, forlorn harmonica; delicate and heart-wrenching piano; slow, shuffling drums; and exquisite guitar are the backdrop to Meares' tales of love, pain and emotional turbulence, rendered in the talk/sung style of Leonard Cohen yet invested with the gothic country ambience of Howe Gelb (Giant Sand) and Wovenhand.

Caitlin Harnett hails from Sydney, Australia but her songs evoke Laurel Canyon of the early 1970s. They share the personal and poetic nature of Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne's early songs, combined with the fragility of Judee Sill, youthful in their outlook but with age-old concerns at their core. Combined with her guitar, banjo and harmonica, her songs have the lilt of folk, a touch of pop and the honesty of Americana.