Giulia Millanta is a singer/songwriter and guitarist based in Austin, TX, who sings in four languages. Her unique style is an Americana Rock cocktail with a European twist. She is feisty, humorous, raw, yet introspective and evocative—andHPPR Living Room Concerts is pleased to announce she'll be playing for fans on the High Plains!
Giulia Millanta— LIVE IN AMARILLO
Saturday, September 8th
Chalice Abbey (2717 Stanley)
Doors @ 7p / Show @ 7:30p
Suggested donation: $15
***Make life easy! Please bring cash.
RSVP here, or call 806.367.9088 to reserve your seat.
~~~NEW SPONSOR! Coffee by Farmer Brothers ~~~
Learn more about Giulia Millanta on her website or Facebook page!
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ABOUT GIULIA MILLANTA: Singer-songwriter, Giulia (Julia) Millanta, is a native-born Italian from Florence who now calls Austin, Texas home. A creative and prolific artist, she has released six albums touring regionally, nationally throughout the USA and internationally. An accomplished guitarist, Giulia also plays ukulele and sings in four languages. She has been called smart, pensive and cool and credited with psychedelic grooveability whilst “baring her clairvoyant soul” to “deliver musical mojo.”
Giulia began her life in music as a child of eight years, when taught to play guitar by her father ; she began to perform traditional folk songs. She continued to sing and began writing songs and making records. Deciding to expand her musical borders in 2012 she moved to Austin where she was soon embraced by the music community and its fans as a writer, collaborator and performer in the scene’s most prestigious singer-songwriter venues. Giulia, by way of her unique bi-lingual ability and intrepid nature, has honed a style that transcends cultural boundaries and speaks strongly yet gently of universal life through her autobiographical musings. One only has to follow the yellow brick road of her discography to know who and where she is now.
In 2008, driven by curiosity and a longing for personal expression, she debuted with Giulia and the Dizzyness (Cavern Jatt Records.) Then, in 2011, she released Dropping Down (Ugly Cat Music/Audioglobe) distinguished by her maturing skills as musician, producer, writer and arranger. By 2012, as a result of Giulia’s new energy and inspiration after having toured mainland Europe and moving to Austin to become part of the melting pot of cultural experiences in “the live music capitol of the world,” she released Dust and Desire (Ugly Cat Music/Audioglobe.) Just a couple of years later in 2014 she broke new ground with The Funambulist (Ugly Cat Music) Surrounded by a host of new friends and fellow musicians as “between the lines” she conceptualizes the tightrope walk she has been through, writing and singing of all she has experienced, learned and become.
In 2016, Giulia released her fifth solo album Moonbeam Parade, with 13 self-penned tunes fueled by a new direction on electric guitar. Produced by Giulia herself on her own label, Ugly Cat Music, with her friend and producer George Reiff, with a stellar band featuring some of the best musicians in Austin, such as Charlie Sexton (Bob Dylan), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Glenn Fukunaga (The Dixie Chicks), Michael Fracasso, Kimmie Rhodes, Gabriel Rhodes (Willie Nelson), Dony Wynn (Robert Palmer), David Pulkingham (Patty Griffin). Moonbeam Paradetour has brought Giulia to the U.K, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Italy and throughout the U.S.
About her new album, Conversation with a Ghost:
In her sixth solo release, Conversation With A Ghost, Giulia invites us to her séance. In the space of thirty-seven minutes, we explore collectively unconscious realms and meet the familiar spirits of loss; loss of innocence, sanity, perspective, love. At the end she sings, “Space, space, space in front of me, in close quarters with myself, so close I couldn’t see there is freedom ahead of me.” Produced by herself and Gabriel Rhodes, the album is recorded live with some of the best musicians in Austin like Glenn Fukunaga on bass and Dony Wynn on drums who in the past two years have also become her steady band members. It also features talents like Marc Ribot (Tom Waits) on electric guitar, Joel Guzman (Paul Simon) on accordion, John Mills (David Byrne) on horns, David Pulkingham on guitar and Kimmie Rhodes on background vocals.
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Want to watch her in action? Here are some videos!
Here’s Giulia’s official video for her son, “Blinded by the Sun.”
See Giulia play “Shaky Legs,” live at Strange Brew in Austin, TX.
Watch a live, acoustic version of “Carry The Cross.”
Check out the title track for her new album, “Conversation with a Ghost.”
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This project has been made possible by a grant from the Texas Music Office, Office of the Governor. Sponsored by the Amarillo Cultural District, Texas Commission on the Arts and Center City of Amarillo, a Texas Main Street City. You can’t hear American Music without hearing Texas.
