Upcoming San Francisco appearance!!!!

Shocker, I know.

Actually part of my new approach to 2011 focuses around playing more music in the Bay Area as opposed to what I did last year. Last year was awesome and I enjoyed all the traveling and opportunities to play, but I want to keep it local.

Friday February 25 7:30pm Zoe Lewis comes to town!!! I’m be joining her along with Kate Wolf on bass, comedian Amy Boyd as MC and a host of other characters at the Delores Park Cafe in San Francisco.

Upcoming….

Wow, I’m getting bad about keeping this thing up to date.

But then again blogging is so dub ‘aughties  (You know, like ’00′s?).

Wrapped up a really great year performance wise and gearing up for a new approach for ’11.

I’ll update when I got some more performances in the works.

Peace out!

Provincetown Jazz Festival appearance August 2010

 

 

In training

Laying kinda low here as a musician since my East Coast Tour.  I’m training for a bike ride at the end of October – the West Coast Tour de Pink.

Here’s a link to my page for the event – I’m going to raise at least $2500 and ride 180 miles.  Working on a video for it so check back soon.

Sara Julian’s Tour de Pink Page

East Coast Tour – Total Success!!!!

Here’s an article and photo essay on Jazz Times about the Provincetown Jazz Festival.  I has planned on attending as a spectator which I did Friday night, but when I walked in on Saturday, Bart Weisman hit me up to play onstage for one of the encores with Paul Sanchez and the gang.  What a treat and honor.  Here’s a link to the web page:

http://jazztimes.com/articles/26446-the-6th-annual-provincetown-jazz-festival.

Sunday I had a great time at Bart’s Jam Session in Hyannis followed by an amazing show in Wellfleet with Zoe Lewis, Roxanne Layton, Sylvie Richard and Carl on bass.  Plus this talentd kid named Ben who sat in on harmonica.

Monday I played with Zoe Lewis at the Arthouse and then we both ran down to sit in with John DeMaci for a good old fashioned jazz jam.  I have videos of that night that I will post eventually.

Wed night I unveiled the World Premire of Butch Van Dyke at a Drag In competition hosted by Jennie McNulty and Mimi Gonzalez and got second place performing my solo version of Lush Life by billy Strayhorn.

All in all an amazing “vacation”!!!!  Thanks to all my friends and fans out there who made it out to catch a show.

Fire up! East coast tour coming up!

It’s almost time for me to head east to Provincetown for a little East Coast action.

I’m really excited to be there for Bart Wiseman’s Provincetown Jazz Festival August 13-14th.  Paul Sanchez is performing on Saturday night.  He’s from New Orleans and the brother of John Sanchez who taught me in Star of Indiana back in 1985.  The festival will be raising some money to help out some of the musicians in New Orleans, so come on out and support a good cause and catch some good music.

Speaking of Star of Indiana – an alumni corps will be performing at DCI Semi’s Friday night in Indianapolis.  Obviously, I’m not going to be there.  I decided a year and a half ago that it was time to move on from drum corps and specifically my Star of Indiana experience.  And I have.  While part of me wishes I could at least be there to see the performance and some old friends, the other part is glad that I didn’t decide to take on a project that would involve playing the same music for a year and a half on an instrument that I don’t usually perform on. 

Instead I have focused on trombone and you can hear the fruits of my labor this next week in Provincetown if you are in the area!!!

Sunday August 15th – Jazz Festival Jam Session at the Island Merchant, 4-7pm in Hyannis MA

Sunday August 15th – Duck Creeke Tavern with Zoe Lewis and her band 9pm 70 Main Street Wellfleet MA

Monday August 16th – Arthouse with Zoe Lewis, on Commercial Street in Provincetown MA 7pm

Monday August 16th – Bubala’s with John Demaci, on Commercial Street in Provincetown, heading over after Zoe’s show.

And possibly to wrap things up I might be sitting in with Zoe one last time on her Viking Princess Jazz Cruise – $26, leaves from MacMillan Pier at 7pm.  Reservations required through 508-487 7323.

Sara L Julian Midwest Tour

Sara L Julian Midwest Tour starts Thursday!!!!

Thur July 15 – 6pm EST catch me on BloomingOUT WFHB Bloomington IN (also will be available in a podcast).

8ishpm Central, Doc’s in Evansville 1305 Stringtown Road w/ Andrea Wirth – all you friends and fans that supported us for the Lilth competition come on out and get Teased!

Friday July 16 – still up in the air, but I’ll keep y’all posted via FB and twitter (over there on yer right) if anything is going on.

Sat July 17th Indy 1pm EST 10 Johnson Avenue Lazy Daze Coffeehouse w/ Andrea Wirth, again, all you friends and fans that supported us for the Lilth competition come on out and get Teased.

Lilith Local Talent competition is going on now!

Click here to check out Andrea Wirth’s original tune Tease. I’m playing trombone on it.

We are in competition for the Indianapolis Lilith Fest – if you register on Ourstage and head over to the page for the competition – which is located here, you can judge the songs that are competing. We have been hanging out in the top twenty, so chances are that you won’t have to vote too many times before you will get a chance to judge us. You have to listen to 15 seconds of each song in either head to head or in groups of four. You’ll get to check out a bunch of new music you probably didn’t know about – I’m enjoying all the talent I’ve heard so far.

So check it out and thanks for the support!!!

Where oh where did the Sara L Julian Experience go?

What ever happened to performance art Sara?

You know the Sara that had a blog that had a lot of crazy stuff on it that would get peoples all up in arms?

OMG did you see what she just wrote can you believe she said that?

I think she’s coming back, performance art Sara.  It’s like i went from one extreme to another – from the Sara L Julian Experience outrageousness to the Sara L Julian Experience v.2.0 that is currently in place.

This blog in its current incarnation is nice and all but it also kind of boring and stuffy.

I don’t think the old blog will ever be public again but I do think I will move to a happy medium.  A new version.  Something stable, long term with the best of the outrageousness without the drama…but not a boring mess.

Coming soon….The Sara L Julian Experience v3.1

A spoken word blog post

Yeah that’s right voice recognition has come to the newest version of the android ls switch my phone receive the last week so i’m making this blog post by speaking into my phone.

Lol. I don’t think i’m going to edit what comes out because it could be entertaining r performance sort of work.

I wish it was a little more accurate because this could save me a lot of time in terms of this upgrading my blog in taking in seward avenue directions.

Nice.

Seriously.

Wtf seaward avenue directions it was supposed to say take my blog in a new direction. Duck butter. Hello Wawa Wild While 1 Wawa Omg how else can i get it this a while.

Technology. When it works it rocks. When did events it’s a.

Get the picture? Can you hear me now?

Peace out peeps.

This post was done entirely with voice recognition.