As a solo artist, Julia has sung for private functions and countless club dates including in Nashville at Mere Bulles, The Merchants, Clayton-Blackmon, and F. Scott’s; in Chattanooga at the Fairyland Club, the Chattanooga Choo Choo, and Union Square. She has entertained the Literacy Volunteers of America and the Middle Tennessee Choral Society, sung at Maximilian’s in San Francisco, aboard the Crystal Harmony and the Westerdaam cruise ships, impromptu at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City with Helen O’Connell, the Village Vanguard in Sendai, the St. James Club in Osaka, and at night spots in Chicago, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo. Rich headlined the WMOT Jazz Festival and most recently did a 5-day stint for the W.C. Handy Festival in the Shoals culminating with an all-star tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.
Julia continues to give Master Classes and private voice lessons. As a classically trained singer with a long history in commercial music and 17 years as vocal group leader for the Moonlight Serenaders, her teaching range is broad.
In addition to the players on the Glenn Miller Orchestra and in the studio (listed below), Julia has made music with the late John Propst, Eddie Edwards, Jeffrey Steinberg, Johnny Veith, Mark Vinci, Jim White, Lennie Foy, Lori Mechem, Roger Spencer, Charles Dungey, Rex Peer, Chris Walters, Butch Cornell, and Takehisa Tanaka.
Julia’s original songs– The Irises, If I Spoke French are featured on Music Choice: Singers and Swing. She wrote her first song in a piano practice room as a music major at Middle Tennessee State University.
