Julian Loida is a Boston-based percussionist, composer, and producer. His musical curiosity and open-mindedness has propelled him towards a wide range of sounds, genres, and artistic endeavors. He’s performed jazz, folk, and classical, collaborating with dancers, visual artists, songwriters/composers, and musicians of all stripes. Music is a full-body experience for him, with sounds often invoking involuntary sensations of color, texture, or even taste. Loida often writes and arranges for his projects and ensembles, and his music has been featured in film. He has toured internationally as a featured artist at Korrö, Sweden’s largest folk music festival, and has played some of the most prestigious music festivals in the U.S., such as Spoleto, New World Festival, the Exit Zero jazz festival, Caramoor American Roots Festival, and Round Top Music Festival. He has performed with groups such as Alarm Will Sound, the Callithumpian Consort, and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. 

A rock & roll lifer, James Maddock has been carving his unique path since the 1980s, when the British-born singer/songwriter kicked off his career with a raw, soulful voice; a storyteller's sense of narrative; and the ability to blur the lines between folk, classic pop, and rock. 

Since those early days in London, he's ridden the wave of a music industry that's ebbed, flowed, peaked, and crashed. Maddock has stayed afloat throughout the entire ride, enjoying a brush with commercial success during the late 1990s — including a major-label record deal, a Top 5 AAA radio hit, and a song placement on Dawson's Creek — before transforming himself into an independent solo artist during the decades that followed. Bruce Springsteen is a fan. So is David Letterman. Come hear him yourself at the Rooster's Wife on October 6th, and you will become one too!