Instructor: Julia Purcell

Julia Purcell is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter with 15 years of experience touring and recording with Maiden Radio, SmithSmith, and Good River String Band. Julia has devoted much of her life to facilitating music experiences that build community and help cultivate joy. She has been teaching vocal, instrumental, and ensemble classes and workshops at Louisville Folk School for the past 10 years and just recently started to lead the Louisville Folk School Folk Choir. 

 In the community, she regularly hosts women's singing circles, facilitates a weekly old-time jam, directs a kids' choir at Sound Space Studio and teaches private lessons in piano, voice, ukulele, guitar, and banjo. 

Since moving to Kentucky, she has sought out musical mentorship from Kentucky master musicians - including Cari Norris, John Haywood, Randy Wilson, John Harrod, Rich Kirby, and Jesse Wells. She now mentors young musicians who are seeking to deepen their relationship to Appalachian music traditions.