Fierce Hearts: Music Of Love-Song-Circus

Katie Noonan is a 4 x ARIA Award winning and 7 x platinum selling songstress and first received widespread praise as the angel-voiced songstress of indie-pop band George. She has since taken audiences on sublime excursions through Jazz, Pop and Classical music.

Fierce Hearts is a song cycle that Katie wrote to form the backbone of her collaboration with contemporary circus group Circa. 'Love -Song-Circus' was inspired by an exhibition at the National Museum called 'Love Tokens'. Convicts would engrave pennies – the tokens – with messages and images for the loved ones they left behind.

This imagery of love and loss captured Katie's imagination immediately and she says, 'As a woman and mother I felt deeply compelled to explore these stories. I soon discovered that the lives of the first female convicts is a part of our history that has been explored by few'.

The album sees Katie's angelic voice supported by piano, strings, banjo, double bass and guitar and draws references from Nymen-esque soundtracks, classical arrangements and folk music.