[OhioLBA General] Julie Schurr performing!

[Holly Rast]

Singer / Songwriter Julie Schurr
will be performing
http://www.julieschurr.com/
http://www.myspace.com/julieschurr


Friday night 4/24
Columbus, Ohio
Wall Street
http://www.wallstreetnightclub.com/
144 N Wall St, 43215
9:30 pm (doors open at 9pm)
$5

Saturday night 4/25
Dayton, Ohio
The 44 Club (used to be Up on Main)
http://www.myspace.com/uponmain
1919 North Main St, 45405
10 pm
$5

Julie Schurr has 10 years of local performance experience in her
home-bases of Michigan and Missouri. Since graduating from college in
2006, Julie has been touring full time, rapidly growing her fan base
throughout the Southeastern U.S., with Pride Festivals, HCR, and NCLR
fundraisers as highlights of her tour.


Growing up, Julie Schurr never heard music that might have made life
a little bit easier for a lesbian girl being raised in the
strictly-proscribed constraints of a religiously conservative community
and home. In fact, she wasn't supposed to be listening to music at all.
She wasn't supposed to know what a lesbian was. Let alone BE one.

Thankfully, Julie Schurr survived her childhood and eventually
escaped the holy land by running off to a heathen college for some
higher education. Fully committed to exploring the new landscape as she
worked her way through college, Julie encountered "lesbian music" for
the first time. And after a while Julie realized that yes, the music
she listened to in college finally used the right pronouns, but it
still wasn't very reflective of her own life. Most of it was just a
little too polished, a little too whitewashed, a little too -- nice.
Ugh.

Julie has never been one to shy away from a challenge. If she
couldn't find the lesbian musical equivalent of gritty street
journalism nicely packaged on the music store shelves, she would have
to create it herself. Julie Schurr bought a guitar, taught herself how
to play it, and drew from a deep bag of of creative writing tricks to
wrestle twenty years' worth of memoir into critically-insightful yet
personable sound-bites of song. With all the right pronouns, of course.
An original creation, Julie Schurr's fusion of musical styling and
technique is all her own: Indierockbitchfolk. She's been showcasing it
to her fans in St. Louis and Detroit, winning loyal converts. Now that
she's finished her degree & produced a full-length album, she just
can't imagine any other career path. So it's a good thing that album
sales are steadily rising and venues keep opening their doors.

SEE YOU THERE!


      
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