Richard Shindell with Julie Loyd

🎟 For fans of Larry Campbell, Mary Gauthier, Antje Duvekot; singer-songwriter, folk 🎵

Richard Shindell lives as both an immigrant and emigrant, crossing thresholds, that informs his illumination of the human experience through narrative song. 

Shindell has inhabited a Zen Buddhist monastery and busked in the streets of Paris.  Originally from New York, now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be. Meticulously recorded over three years in New York and Buenos Aires, his most recent release, Careless, offered an ambitious, luxurious, full- length statement. Shindell immersed himself in the studio, allowing the time and latitude to explore, experiment, take risks—to play—as each of these eleven songs was given form and substance. 

While his signature acoustic guitar style is used to good effect, Careless also found Shindell plugging in more. “The wider sonic and dynamic range of the electric has been a real inspiration. Rejuvenating.”  During the pandemic, Shindell stayed in Argentina, out on the wide open Pampa, reading, writing, taking walks, doing a little experimental recording, and tending the garden. 

He now returns to the road for a limited number of performances. Innovative, original and occasionally spiritual, Shindell’s songs weave tales that interchangeably champion the downtrodden, exalt the disaffected or wax empathetic to those lost to society’s fringes. From lighthearted ballads and adulterous love songs, to dirges and diatribes that skillfully skewer politics, prejudice, war and religion, to the comic point-of-view of a cow stuck in a barbed wire fence, he has a unique ability to morph into the soul of the many and varied personalities he casts as narrators in certain songs—veritable novellas framed in haunting acoustic melodies.

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Julie Loyd is a professional indie folk singer-songwriter, toting along her banjo, guitar and heart-thumping, lyric-driven songs. Loyd is a seasoned performer with 20 years of experience on the stage – 10 years touring nationally (170+ shows per year) – and a stage presence that Curve Magazine characterized as "kick-ass.” She grew up as a child of musical theater and while her music is deeply rooted in the modern folk tradition, her ability to convey deep meaning through her performance is what makes her live shows so special. Her tours have included performances at prestigious listening rooms such as Bluebird Café (Nashville), Club Passim (Boston), The Bitter End (NYC), The Iron Horse Music Hall (Northampton), Hotel Café (LA), and Schuba's (Chicago). Her tours have always been notable, performing with artists such as Shawn Mullins, Patty Larkin, Alana Davis, Michelle Malone, and Chris Barron (of the Spin Doctors), to name a few.

Over her career she has released 6 solo albums that range from folk-pop (The Waiting Room, produced by David Perlick-Molinari of French Horn Rebellion) to indie-grass (Dandelions & Party Queens, produced by Evan Brubaker) to her latest indie-pop EP (What The Waves Said produced by AG of The Rescues). She’s currently working on songs for her 7th album which is expected to be a return to her indie folk, acoustic-driven roots.

Julie Loyd has lived across the country including Chicago, Boston, Northampton (MA), Asheville (NC), New York City, and now lives outside New York in Westport, CT.