Episode 19: Singer/ Songwriter Julie Schurr joins Weezer in the Cafe.

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. For the remainder of 2007, Julie will be out on tour and finishing up her 2nd album, which is planned for release in early 2008. 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. In 2007, track down Julie Schurr on the open road, touring the U.S. as she promotes her first album. Discography: To Her: The Bittersweet. 2006 Available on CD Baby, JulieSchurr.Com, and iTunes. www.julieschurr.com www.myspace/julieschurr www.reverbnation.com/julieschurr www.cdbaby/julieschurr Music provided by Julie Schurr / Album: To Her: The Bittersweet www.thecootercafe.com [email protected]