Sunday,
July 16th, 2006
Woodstock Square
12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Julie Loyd (2:45 pm) - recently voted Best Folk-Rocker by Western Mass. Valley Advocate, is a spitfire of pop hooks, intelligent lyrics, and high-energy performance (playing 170+ shows a year). Any night of the week you can find Julie in front of a crowd wailing away on her guitar— wearing another hole in the finish, weaving a tune with a set of gutsy vocals and stomping out a rhythm with a set of steel-toed combat boots. She has a knack for making folk dynamic: “I’m tired of folk being seen as boring. Just because I’m playing an acoustic guitar doesn’t mean I’m going to be singing about the mountains...” It is Julie’s ferocious stage show and hook-laden folk-rock that propelled her into full-time touring at 20 and, at 24, has Performer Magazine calling her “an artist to look out for.”

For more info about Julie Loyd, visit her website at www.julieloyd.com.