Dec6

Julie Thompson's High Standards with Jeff Stoll

The Bay Restaurant, 342 East Silver Spring Drive, Whitefish Bay, Wi

If you don't know Jeff, you are in for a treat. He plays bass with his feet and you'll swear he has four hands the way he can play keyboard!

Great time here - eat, drink and be merry. The end is near! JK BUT it will be 2020 soon. Better have some fun before the end of the world. Again, I'm kidding. Don't worry, be happy.

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Discontinued - Jazz N' Stuff (obit link)

Discontinued - Jazz N' Stuff (obit link)

Hart Park Senior Center, Wauwatosa, WI

For approximately 7 years, when available, I would sing a few songs with this small group playing standards and Dixie once a month on the second Monday. In Sept 2019, Dan (piano) and Rob (bass) made the decision to discontinue the program when old friend and trumpeter, Pete Wood made his transition. We will all miss Pete enormously, as well as the tradition of seeing each other regularly to share music we love. Jason (sax) began playing with them several years ago (I claim a little credit since I gave Pete Jason's number :)). Here is more about Pete... Play On Friend!

https://www.schramkafuneralhome.com/memorials/francis-wood/3962343/

Image shown is at a private event that I did with Pete in 2014.

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Dec9

private shows happening each week...

at various locations and times. Some private parties/luncheons/the like. Many are Senior Communities and some welcome public. If you are free during the day to attend let me know and I'll do my best to give you a heads up.

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Dec10

Miss Julie Music Fun - Germantown

Germantown Community Library, N112 W16857 Mequon Road, Germantown, WI 53022

Sign up through the Germantown OR Menomonee Falls Rec Depts
Fall 1: Sept. 10– Oct. 8 (off Sept 24) Fall 2: Oct. 15– Nov. 5 "Winter" : Nov. 12 – Dec. 4

MISS JULIE’S MUSIC FUN FOR FAMILIES

Saturdays 10:15 – 11:00 a.m. Sept. 28 284211-06 Oct. 19 284211-07 Nov. 9 284211-08 Dec. 7 284211-09

HALLOWEEN MUSIC PARTY! (Parents or caregivers & children tots ages 1-5) This hour long fun music party will feature songs to learn and celebrate October, the fall, and Halloween. Class includes a healthy snack and a take home instrument or gift. Halloween costumes are encouraged! Wednesday, Oct. 30 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

CHRISTMAS MUSIC PARTY! (Parents or caregivers & children tots ages 1-5) This hour long fun music party will feature songs to learn and celebrate Christmas, winter, and solstice. Class includes a healthy snack and a take home instrument or gift.
Wednesday, Dec. 18

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Dec11

Miss Julie Music Fun - Germantown

Germantown Community Library, N112 W16857 Mequon Road, Germantown, WI 53022

Sign up through the Germantown OR Menomonee Falls Rec Depts
Fall 1: Sept. 10– Oct. 8 (off Sept 24) Fall 2: Oct. 15– Nov. 5 "Winter" : Nov. 12 – Dec. 4

MISS JULIE’S MUSIC FUN FOR FAMILIES

Saturdays 10:15 – 11:00 a.m. Sept. 28 284211-06 Oct. 19 284211-07 Nov. 9 284211-08 Dec. 7 284211-09

HALLOWEEN MUSIC PARTY! (Parents or caregivers & children tots ages 1-5) This hour long fun music party will feature songs to learn and celebrate October, the fall, and Halloween. Class includes a healthy snack and a take home instrument or gift. Halloween costumes are encouraged! Wednesday, Oct. 30 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

CHRISTMAS MUSIC PARTY! (Parents or caregivers & children tots ages 1-5) This hour long fun music party will feature songs to learn and celebrate Christmas, winter, and solstice. Class includes a healthy snack and a take home instrument or gift.
Wednesday, Dec. 18

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About

~ A VOICE BEYOND GENRE~
 
“Julie Thompson sings with a style that is silky and soulful. Her lyrical voice bypasses the mind and goes straight to the heart. Her honesty, gentleness, and musical literacy are hallmarks of her engaging performances.”       Joe Jencks – Singer Songwriter, Chicago, IL

Ms. Thompson has opened for The Kingston Trio, sung in the back-up chorus for the rock group Foreigner, toured for 10 years with the New England-based “Julie & Brownie”, and has appeared on CMN and TNN in TJ Booker’s music video Wine into Water. Besides publishing songs, she is an internationally published author (Charlesbridge Publishing) and narrator of several children’s books.

Having studied voice in high school and college in the her native state of Maine, Julie's classical training is her foundation for her folk and jazz work.   Ten years on the road with Brownie Macintosh (founding the touring act "Julie & Brownie") brought her to nearly every library, recreation department, school, festival and fair in New England and parts of the East Coast, as well as a close call to be signed with Sony Kids.   Currently residing and performing in the midwest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (on Lake Michigan, just 1 1/2 hours north of Chicago), she enjoys some regularly scheduled performances there, as well as frequent sojurns to New England and Florida for special events.
 
Julie sings in various groups and styles.   Jazz (Julie Thompson's High Standards), Motown Trio (Night & Day with Bobby Jiles),  Folk Trio (Dangerous Folk),  Blues band (Southend Blues Band), Kid's (Miss Julie's Music Fun, and Birthday Parties), and as a guest singer for church services. 

Some history:
Julie Anne Lovely* Thompson lived for three years in Tallahassee, Florida from 1998-2001 providing music for a church pre-school weekly, singing at Unity Church, playing in a drumming circle lead by Olumiday, occasionally singing with Velma Frye's Women's Singing Circle, playing Christopher Robin in The Reader's Theatre, participating in Anyone Can Whistle put on by Theatre a la Carte.   She worked part-time at the local health food store, New Leaf Market.

* is that a real name?   Yes, my Mother's Maiden name is Lovely.  I learned (but not until my mid-20's) that several of the "Lovely's" are very good musicians.  I carry on the name to honor my Mum and as an homage to that part of my musical lineage.
(Oh - and, by the way, it will help you find my YouTube videos quickly if you put in my full name (;! )"
 
Link to "On Milwaukee" online article and interview:
http://onmilwaukee.com/music/articles/juliethompsonreverie.html

by Olivia Zager

“Julie’s exquisitely beautiful voice is supremely pure.” - Portland Press Herald