Born in the 90’s into the bustling, gritty state of New Jersey, Jules set out as a teen, carrying the nostalgia of home from coast to coast, from wild seashores to eccentric towns, and across the pond to the dimly lit cities and countryside of Europe. Bearing her guitar, she bashfully strummed and honestly sang the poems from inside her journal - scribbled down in cafes in the East Village, beatnik cooperatives in California, farms in Western Ireland.
Her adventures, experiences and serendipitous connections bled their way into books full of songs that candidly express female struggles, sorrow, inner battles, nightmares, loss, troublesome love, crowded and anonymous subway trains, the restless twilight of a sleepless night, longing for that mysterious human connection, and the search for magic.
Eventually landing in the rolling Blue Ridge mountains of Central Virginia, she teamed up with the boys to create Dropping Julia - a 5 piece band breathing life into Jules’ personal and imaginative songwriting. Together they create a technicolor mixture - part dreamy, dusky and melancholy, part funky and sassy - with influences from R&B, jazz, funk and pop - that invites the listener in and bewitchingly delivers the evocative stories and emotion in Jules’ writing.
Dropping Julia is animated with warm and toasty bass lines, soothing guitar, jazz-colored keyboard, lush waves of saxophone and trumpet, punchy crisp drums, and is topped off with Jules’ whimsical yet sultry vocals, passionately and poetically expressing her unique perspective on life. Their eclectic performances are vulnerable yet bold, full to the brim with infectious energy and quirky camaraderie, channeling a nostalgic past, and all wrapped up with Jersey sass and Virginia charm.
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"𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗱." - 𝗕𝘂𝘇𝘇𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰