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Playwright and performance artist Joshua Bastian Cole has been read and seen and heard in all sorts of media. He's been a guest on Chicago's Feast of Fools podcast and Sirius OutQ Radio's Diana Cage Show. Cole has been written about by T Cooper for Out Magazine and Tristan Taormino for The Village Voice, seen as an XX Boy model in Paris' Tetu Magazine, and interviewed for London's Metro Magazine. He's been published in several anthologies including: Trans Forming Families, Beyond Masculinity, and the just released Visible: a Femmethology from Homofactus Press! Cole has also been seen in a handful of films which include: Christy Pessagno's Gay Motherf*ckers which played in the Tribeca Film Festival, the work-in-progress Maggots and Men, and the new film by Jules Rosskam, against a trans narrative, which is about to start touring film festivals. Cole is also a part of the collaborative talent of the films of Trannywood Pictures.

After graduating from James Madison University’s School of Theatre and Dance, Cole moved to southern Virginia and now currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but he will always have Brooklyn in his blood. Cole is a yankee transplant to the south. Born in Manhattan's famous Mt. Sinai hospital, he finds the cows he drives by in the morning very strange indeed.

Originally a child of musical theater, Julie Loyd's music comes across best on stage. Though shes left behind the Broadway vibrato, she uses her movement experience to step inside her songs, contorting, kicking, and undulating to the beat of her own percussive guitar and banjo playing. Whether it's on a guitar or banjo, one can tell her performance experience is considerable.
She started touring professionally at 19, and has released four albums and a live DVD--playing all around the country, sharing stages with such performers as Shawn Mullins, Michelle Malone, Kaki King, G-love & Special Sauce, Hamell on Trial, and Alana Davis, to name a few. She has a knack for making folk dynamic: "I'm tired of folk being seen as boring. Just because I'm playing an acoustic guitar doesn't mean I'm going to be singing about the mountains and if I am, I'm singing loud."
Born and raised alongside the Blue Ridge Mountains in Charlottesville, Virginia, Julie has been struggling with her southern roots and her Yankee mentality since she was a kid. Having lived and toured out of New York City, Northampton, MA, Asheville, NC, and Chicago, IL, she's recently taken up residence in the folk capital of the country--Boston, MA. She tours the eastern half of the US regularly, and tries to tour to the Western US a few times a year as well.
Her fifth and newest album, Dandelions & Party Queens (Release Date: 9/2008) features both her guitar & banjo playing, alongside such players as Julie Wolf (Indigo Girls, Dar Williams, Ani DiFranco). Produced by Evan Brubaker of Cake Records, it's a joyful acoustic romp showcasing Julie's maturing vocals and songwriting.