Sarah Julia

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Sid The Cat Presents Sarah Julia with Ella Luna 4/5/2025 at Scribble The story of Sarah Julia is one of pure partnership, bound together by shared years, life experiences, style, and sisterhood: the duo are bonded way beyond their musical endeavours. Their creative beginnings go way back to when Sarah was eight, and Julia was six, and they were both in theatre together – a constant outlet across their lives. Julia recounts being in the audience, sitting so far forward on her seat when watching Sarah perform that she fell and knocked her tooth out, a very literal moment of realisation that she wanted to be on stage too. Throughout their formative years, the pair took on roles in professional musicals, TV shows, and movies, before participating in a TV songwriting contest where they came in third place. After a long time of telling other people’s stories, Sarah Julia decided it was time to tell their own, and through whittling away what they didn’t like, they in turn discovered what they did. With time, Sarah Julia have gradually carved out their desired path as artists and writers. A defining moment in the siblings’ lives came when there was a significant change in their family dynamics, and through this they reached a new level of intimacy and sincerity in their songwriting. From this experience they recognise that “it clicked, it was the first domino”. Their stance became one of reminiscence, reflecting on childhood, growing up, loss, family, and change. Together with Jasper Maekelberg, the pair developed a way of lyrically and sonically blurring the lines between the security and softness of childhood, and the heaviness of adulthood. With the lightness of acoustic guitar pickings and harp married with the dark depths of double bass and cello, they translate the confusing world of young adulthood. With some songs sung in unison, their two voices truly move as one, splitting the duties of professing their shared experiences in song.

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