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GIULIA MILLANTA:
Singer-songwriter, Giulia (Julia) Millanta, is a native-born Italian from Florence who now calls Austin, Texas home.
A creative and prolific artist, she has released seven solo albums, touring nationally throughout the USA and internationally. An accomplished guitarist, Giulia also plays ukulele and sings in four languages. She has been called smart, pensive and cool and credited with psychedelic grooveability whilst “baring her clairvoyant soul” to “deliver musical mojo.”
Giulia began her life in music as a child of eight years when taught to play guitar by her father she began to perform traditional folk songs. She continued to sing and began writing songs and making records. Performing at the Acoustic Guitar Meeting in Sarzana in the spring of 2010 her accomplished guitar style and songs earned her the “New Sounds Of Acoustic Music” award. This led to an endorsement by the renowned guitar makers Eko, choice of the most famous 60’s-80’s era singer-songwriters throughout Italy.
In 2008, she debuted with “Giulia and the Dizzyness” (Cavern Jatt Records.)
Then, in 2011, she released “Dropping Down” (Ugly Cat Music/Audioglobe) distinguished by her maturing skills as musician, producer, writer and arranger.
Deciding to expand her musical borders in 2012 she moved to Austin where she was soon embraced by the music community and its fans as a writer, collaborator and performer in the scene’s most prestigious singer-songwriter venues.
Shortly after she released “Dust and Desire” (Ugly Cat Music/Audioglobe.) Just a couple of years later in 2014 she broke new ground with “The Funambulist” (Ugly Cat Music) Surrounded by a host of new friends and fellow musicians as “between the lines” she conceptualizes the tightrope walk she has been through, writing and singing of all she has experienced, learned and become.
In 2016, Giulia released her fifth solo album “Moonbeam Parade”, 13 self-penned tunes fueled by a new direction on electric guitar. Produced by Giulia herself on her own label “Ugly Cat Music”, with her friend and producer George Reiff, with a stellar band featuring some of the best musicians in Austin, such as Charlie Sexton (Bob Dylan), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Glenn Fukunaga (The Dixie Chicks), Gabriel Rhodes (Willie Nelson),David Pulkingham (Patty Griffin) and many more.
In 2018 Giulia releases “Conversation with a Ghost” produced by herself and Gabriel Rhodes. The record also features talents like Marc Ribot (Tom Waits) on electric guitar, Joel Guzman (Paul Simon) on accordion, John Mills (David Byrne) on horns.
2018 was also a great year for awards for Giulia, since she won the Premio Ciampi for “Not You”, her version of Piero Ciampi’s song "Tu no" and was awarded with the Doc's Blues Awards 2018 as BluesWoman of the year by
Severn Fm Radio.
After 2 years of collaborations and after touring extensively in the US and Northern Europe, Giulia returns in the studio in early 2020 to record a new album. “Tomorrow is a Bird”, once again co-produced with guitar player and poli-instrumentalist Gabriel Rhodes, features some of the most influential musicians in the Austin music scene. The album is about re-evaluating life, about endings and beginnings, failures and opportunities, about changing direction, trusting that the wind will support your wings and get you where you need to go.
A self-published book entitled “Between the Strings” explores the other side of being a musicians, her life on and off the road, and marks Giulia’s debut as a writer.
In the summer/fall of 2021 Giulia records “Woman on the Moon” (out in April of 2022)
The record was almost entirely performed by Giulia and Gabriel with the exception of drum parts.
Some odd instruments were used in these recordings: a wet towel in the bathroom sink, puppet legs against a wooden box, various guitars played with cello bow, Giulia’s naked thighs … The record is a journey of separation and unity, through the masculine and feminine inside of us.
In the Spring of 2022, Giulia publishes her first novel “Fratture” with an Italian publishing company names Porto Seguro.
In April 2024, Millanta is poised to release her ninth solo album (her sixth in the US), Only Luna Knows, along with an Italian cookbook, “Dinner with Giulia - Flavors, Songs and Stories of a Florentine Troubadour”.
In the past few years Giulia has performed in some of the best rooms in the US and Europe such as:
The Kessler Theatre in Dallas, TX (opening for 10,000 Maniacs)The Heights Theatre in Houston, TX (opening for 10,000 Maniacs and Squirrel Nut Zippers)The 04 Center in Austin, TX, Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, Tin Angel, Philadelphia PA, An Die Musik, Baltimore, DE, Rockwood Music Hall, NYC, The Blue Door, Oklahoma City, OK, The Mucky Duck, Houston, TX, Opera House, Telluride, CO, Walnut Room, Denver, CO, In the Woods, Leusden, NL, De Harmonie, Edam, NL, Mandy’s Lounge, Homburg, DE, Teatro Romano di Fiesole, Florence, IT and more...
ERIN IVEY:
Erin Ivey is an Austin-based singer-songwriter whose intimate, confessional style, expressive voice, and emotionally powerful performances have won her a loyal following, national endorsements from Guild and Gretsch, and a 2025 Austin Music Award for Best Folk.
Texas Monthly called her a "superstar." Austin.com dubbed her the "queen of Austin songwriters." Roxy said she's "the darling of Austin's legendary music scene" and according to KUTX, Ivey has "quietly become one of our city's biggest critical successes."
In 2020, Texas Music Magazine named Erin's breakout album Broken Gold one of 20 "albums that defined Texas music over the past 2 decades."
Raised in a military family in Annapolis, Maryland, Erin moved to Austin to attend the University of Texas. She found her people keeping it weird and started playing open mics at the renowned Cactus Cafe. She has since performed countless shows around the world in various solo and band scenarios, sharing stages with Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris, HEART, Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin, Ralph Stanley, Stanley Jordan, and many others.
Her latest album, Souvenir, is a country-folk collaboration with producer Brennen Leigh, created in 2024 while Ivey recovered from lung cancer. Souvenir was featured on The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, citing its "gently spirited country-folk songs that spill over with memorable melodies and slice-of-life wisdom about searching for a sure path in an disorienting world."
Erin's 2021 album, Solace in the Wild, was produced by film composer and guitarist Chuck Pinnell. This cinematic folk gem hit #5 on the international Folk Radio charts. It was on the 64th GRAMMY ballot for Best Folk Album, alongside the single “Dust Bowl,” up for Best American Roots Song, and it made the Austin American-Statesman's annual Top 10.
Erin's work has been featured in Forbes, HuffPost, and Adweek, in films, ads, and TV shows including Suits, The Client List, Coach Snoop, E! News, and numerous Hallmark movies. She has received artist grants from Black Fret, the City of Austin, and Howlin' Dog Music Group, as well as national guitar sponsorship from Guild, mandolin sponsorship from Gretsch, and a signature electric guitar from Skermetta Guitars. In 2009, the mayor of Austin declared April 29th "Erin Ivey Day."
Erin's six studio albums feature diverse collaborators including Tosca String Quartet, R&B/dub organ trio The Finest Kind, and rapper Mic Flo. She wrote and produced the acclaimed interdisciplinary "Kaleidoscope Project" at The Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin and has collaborated with Blue Lapis Light aerial dance company and DiverseSpace Dance Theater. Erin's voice can be heard on albums by Christopher Cross, Moonlight Towers, Ryan Harkrider, Quiet Company, Mount Pressmore, and many more.
A frequent Critic's Pick at SXSW, Erin was the first artist-in-residence at Rumblefish in Portland, OR. She was the one woman selected for the Red Bull Music Lab in Dallas, TX and was chosen to be part of the first international Mashibeats Web3 Creator Club cohort.
Erin is active in the arts community, serving on the Board of Governors for the Texas Chapter of the Recording Academy and the Advisory Board for This Is Noteworthy. She speaks on industry panels at the intersections of creativity, culture, and commerce for organizations such as The GRAMMY Museum, INBOUND Conference, 343 Labs, and Folk Alliance International.
She also facilitates songwriting, creativity, and project management workshops, as well as volunteering as a songwriting and music business mentor at Song Rise Arts and GRAMMY U.
MICHAEL FRACASSO:
It's a long way from the steel mills of Ohio to the wide-open plains of Texas, especially if you get there via New York City. But that's exactly the circuitous route taken by singer/songwriter Michael Fracasso and it has worked quite well for him. Fracasso grew up amidst Italian, Polish, and Irish immigrants working for a better life in the mills of Mingo Junction, OH. The town's main claim to fame is that The Deer Hunter was filmed there, but with any luck, Fracasso will put it on the map in association with his career. Naturally outgrowing his roots, he ventured off to Washington State to finish college and eventually made his way to New York in 1979 to be a songwriter. For 12 years, Fracasso honed his craft by participating in open-mic nights and songwriter groups. His first stop was the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village, which, at the time, was the chosen hangout for folks like Suzanne Vega, the Roches, and Steve Forbert. Fracasso dove right in, contributing tunes to various compilations. By 1990, things were shifting in the New York folk scene, so Fracasso felt a change was in order. Once again, he packed up and headed out to find his place in the world. Next stop: Austin, TX.
With his high lonesome voice and urban sensibilities, Austin was a pretty good fit. Soon enough, Fracasso carved out a niche for himself and within a year was voted Best New Artist in the Music City Texas poll of local musicians. His first official release of Love & Trust came in 1992, along with tours of both coasts and abroad. And there he was, alongside Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, Hal Ketchum, and others in a television special highlighting the Austin music scene. Founding Bohemia Beat Records with some fellow musicians, Fracasso issued When I Lived in the Wild in 1995. Being very well received critically, it also found (and held) a spot on the Gavin Report's newly established Americana Top Ten. Continuing to tour in support of his records, Fracasso has slowly built a national following for his literate, beguiling songs and captivating vocal style. World in a Drop of Water was recorded with the help of fellow Texan Charlie Sexton and offered up for public consumption in 1998