Julie Thompson

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Jun23

Miss Julie's Music Fun (class for littles)

Firemen's Park , Germantown

Register with Germantown or Menomonee Falls RECREATION DEPT. We have a class almost every Tuesday at 10 am for 45 min. for 1-5 year olds. We also have weekly Family classes on Saturday mornings (Plus a BABIES class), and Music Parties (crafts and activities) about once every two months.

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~ 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
 
Julie sings in various groups and styles in Wisconsin, and Maine.
 
Solo or with a group:  Guest Singer - Senior Communities:  Independent, Assisted, & Memory Care.     
Miss Julie's Music Fun (classes or performances)  
Groups: Julie Thompson’s High Standards – jazz standards,  and mixing in other genres,    JTnT Trio singing obscure songs everyone recognizes ,  Duo of Blues/Rock/mix with Dean Richard.      Singer with Command Performance Big Band.   Guest Singer, Unity Center, Unitarian Universalist, United Church in Christ
Julie Thompson and Good Folk classic folk music
Julie Thompson with Keith Watling and also with String Theory a wide range of genres!

Some Musical History: 
Founding member of Dangerous Folk – trio of classic 60’s folk (20 yrs).  
Bassist/singer/founder Night n Day Band with Bobby Jiles– Motown favorites (13 yrs). 
Member South End Blues Band (9 yrs),
Founding member of "Julie & Brownie" - music for kids and families (10 yrs)

Julie has opened for The Kingston Trio twice, 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 gives her a stable foundation for all her singing projects.   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.   Now 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. 

"Herstory":
Julie Anne Lovely* Thompson lived for three years in Tallahassee, Florida (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.   And finally, working 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