A Shedd Institute Emerald City Jazz Kings and Oregon Festival of American Music regular from the late 1990s until 2012, Julie makes a special appearance this summer to revisit the wonderful music of the Boswell Sisters with longtime friend and colleague Shirley Anderss. Originally from San Jose, she is a graduate of Cal State Hayward with a BA in Education, Julie has sung with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, and performed many roles with the Summer Musical Theater in the Bay Area and worked as a studio singer for Maranatha! Records. She resides in Olympia Washington with her husband and three children and works as the Musical Director at Hope Community Church.