Monday, January 5, 2026
12 PM
Born by the Mediterranean Sea in Italy and raised between the Swiss Alps, Iris Moné is a Swiss-Italian artist with an international flair. She moved to Southern California 10 years ago, developed her songwriting craft and created soulful songs.
In 2013, she was a finalist on the first season of The Voice of Switzerland, appeared on many albums, performed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, the Bitter End in NYC, the Montreux Festival, and at the EXPO Milano.
Iris is the second half of the new electro-pop project called kardada, in collaboration with the producer kandrax. They released their first album in September 2022 and a remix album in December, with lyrics in Italian.
More recent soul-pop singles include Rebel Soul, Direction Soleil, On&On, and Higher.
Hailed as one of Switzerland’s most beautiful voices, in 2008 the national press crowned her “Queen of the Blues To Bop Festival” in Lugano. She is featured on over 12 albums as a lead or back up singer, and she has performed in Europe, the United States, and Africa, on TV Shows like 4x4 Vive La Suisse, and at the Swiss Embassy in Washington DC.
She was a vocal coach at the Swiss TV show Showtime and juror of the international finals of the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2016 and 2017, she sang the U.S. National Anthem for the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. In 2019, she had a tour in Costa Rica, Panama, and El Salvador.
Iris currently lives in San Diego where she works as a songwriter and performer.
Her three singles Soul Train, Wild Cat, and Soul Sister were released in 2019.
Free concerts at noon every Monday year-round . . . no wonder the Mini-Concerts are the longest-running and one of the most popular classical music series at the library! This series was founded by Glenna Hazleton in 1970 at the Athenaeum, and has been going strong ever since. The concerts feature both local and touring musicians, prize-winning students, university music faculty members, local chamber ensembles. . . and the repertoire also includes jazz, folk, and world music. There are no reservations, no tickets . . . just line up at the side door of the Athenaeum before noon. (Donations are always welcome!) Mini-Concerts take place every Monday at noon and last about an hour.
The concerts will be in person at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. There are no physical tickets for these events. Doors open at 11:40 a.m. Last entry is at 12:10 p.m. or once capacity is reached. Seating is first-come; first-served. Reservations are not necessary, but seating is limited.