Julie Loyd in Concert at Herland on October 5
The scene opens like this. Open mic night. Seventeen. Alone. The only girl on the list. The only girl in the room. Julie Loyd stands on stage wailing away on a cheap guitar — wearing another hole in the finish, weaving a tune with a set of gutsy vocals and stomping out a rhythm with a set of steel-toed combat boots. Two songs later, Julie steps off stage and puts her guitar back in its case. A fellow musician walks up to her and says, simply, “give up everything before you give up this.”
When Julie recalls her favorite audience reactions, this easily tops her list. In the five years since that open mic, Julie has expanded her horizons playing all around the country and sharing stages with such performers as Shawn Mullins, Alana Davis, Michelle Malone, Edie Carey, and Chris Barron (of the Spin Doctors), to name a few. She steps inside her songs, contorting, kicking, and undulating to the beat of her own percussive guitar playing. She has a knack for making folk dynamic: “I’m tired of folk being seen as boring. Just because I’m playing an acoustic guitar doesn’t mean I’m going to be singing about the mountains — and if I am, I’m singing loud.”
“Julie Loyd is an incredibly gifted songwriter from Charlottesville, Virginia, and her songwriting skills and performance are simply amazing.”- Up & Coming Magazine. “Julie was a sight to behold in boots, halter top and thirties-style red hair that matcher her guitar. Her tunes are strong and memorable” -Performer Magazine. “She paints powerful and gutsy literate canvases, full of strength, independence, anger, fierceness, connection, wholeness and doubt.” - Celtic & Folk Music CD Review.
Julie will be in town in the middle of the week, so the concert will be early on Wednesday, October 5, 2005, from 7 – 9 pm, at Herland, 2312 NW 39th, Oklahoma City. Tickets are sliding scale ($7.50-$15.00 suggested donation) and available at the door or in advance at Herland on Saturdays. Call 405-521-9696 for more information, and check Julie out at www.julieloyd.com.