Centerstage Minnesota: Julie Johnson & the No-Accounts

If you want to play the flute professionally it will, almost without variation, means you will be the caretaker of revered tradition, and you will spend your career playing music created by others within the respected confines of that music's genre. Without question this is an honorable responsibility, and an honorable role to occupy as a musician. Julie Johnson was already a well-trained flutist when she came to the realization that she also also wanted to compose music, wanted to invent. While harboring great respect for the musical traditions that form the firm footing from which the music of Julie Johnson & the No-Accounts extends, Julie Johnson and her band (Doug Otto: Vocals & Guitar, and Drew Druckery: Vocals, Mandolin, & Resonator Guitar) have been been forging new ground in music for Julie's instrument, the flute, and in numerous ethnic and folk musical traditions. Music also from Brian Miller and Randy Gosa, Charlie Parr, and Pat Surface.

Peter Lee