Uncommon Ground ^ Julie Loyd

Julie Loyd
Originally a dancer and child of musical theater, Julie Loyd’s music comes across best on stage. In the five years since she began, Julie has played all around the country and shared stages with such performers as Shawn Mullins, G-Love and Special Sauce, Alana Davis, Michelle Malone, Edie Carey, and Chris Barron (of the Spin Doctors), to name a few. Though she’s left behind the Broadway vibrato, she uses her movement experience to step 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.”

This Charlottesville, Virginia, native has spent her formative years on the road. The roadtrip that started at the tender age of nineteen continues for the now twenty-three-year-old. She has a growing list of touring hubs including New York City (where she also earned her degree at New York University), Asheville, NC, and most recently Northampton, MA. Stops on her trip have included prestigious listening rooms such as The Bluebird Café (Nashville), Club Passim (Boston), The Iron Horse Music Hall (Northampton), Jammin’ Java (Vienna, VA), World Café Live (Philadelphia), and Gravity Lounge in her hometown of Charlottesville, VA. After playing her first national tour in 2003, Julie Loyd returned to New York City to record her third studio album. Julie has teamed up with David Perlick Molinari, a producer who has worked extensively with MTV and Cinemax for a project that fuses confessional acoustic-rock with innovative pop production. Now a resident of Northampton, MA, Julie has released her third album at 23, an effort that Performer Magazine has said makes Julie Loyd “an artist to look out for.”

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