Cleis Pearce

Australian violin and viola player. She has played music for contemporary dance and poetry performances. She plyed in MacKenzie Theory, an Australian jazz rock group formed in September 1971 in Melbourne and dispanded in May 1974. In 1976 she joined raga rock band Kanguru who released the album Dreaming (1976). In the 1980s she teamed up with Cathie O'Sullivan and released a folk album High Places (1983). Since the 1980s she has toured and performed with Gyan and Michael Leunig, Yuval Ashkar, Dha, Coolangubra and others.