Upon arriving in Austin, TX in 1990 from New York City, MICHAEL FRACASSO was promptly voted Best New Artist in Music City Texas ‘Insiders’ poll and was able to record his first CD, Love & Trust which features a duet with Lucinda Williams.

He has made two albums with producer/ guitarist Charlie Sexton (World in a Drop of Water and Back to Oklahoma) and also collaborated with Charlie to write and record the music for the movie Monster Hunter.

His 2004 album, Pocketful of Rain featured a duet with Grammy winner Patty Griffin for whom Michael opened her Spring 2006 tour.

He has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe and Japan. His 2007 release, Red Dog Blues went to #1 on the Americana Chart in Europe.

For his seventh CD, Saint Monday (April 26, 2011) Fracasso returned to a harder-hitting sound of a full rock band and “…remains one of Austin’s most distinctive voices.” – Jim Caligiuri – Austin Chronicle.

He was short listed for the Austin Public Library Award for literary achievement in 2011 and was on the “Best of 2011” list for several publications including Third Coast Music, San Antonio Express News and Austin Chronicle.

“Michael Fracasso has the heart-melting potential of Gene Pitney or Don Everly… his voice remains a marvelous instrument throughout.”
— Don McLeese, Rolling Stone

“…transcend(s) the realms of hardcore honky-tonk and folksy excess. Fracasso… gloriously integrated a countrified Texas twang with Beatlesque popisms and rocking enthusiasm.”
— Mitch Myers, New City

Opener GIULIA MILLANTA is a songwriter from Florence, Italy, now based in Austin, TX. She is a traveller. She is a writer. She is a performer who uses her own unique style in combination with various genres to craft music that connects cultures.

She plays guitar, ukulele and she sings in four languages – Italian, English, French and Spanish!

Her curiosity and search for a personal form of expression distinguished her first work, “Giulia and the Dizzyness” (CavernJatt Records 2008).

She performed at the Acoustic Guitar Meeting in Sarzana, where she won the Carisch Award “New Sounds of Acoustic Music”, in May of 2010.

Two years after her first release, Giulia delivered “Dropping Down” (Ugly Cat Music/ Audioglobe 2011) a multivalent musical performance, showing her skills in every aspect of production. 
The album is in fact entirely written (except for the cover, Paranoid, by Black Sabbath), arranged, and produced by the singer/songwriter.

In 2012 , after touring Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and US, Giulia moved to Austin, Texas, the “live music capital of the world”, a melting pot where different cultures, genres and musical styles meet and blend. Here, filled with new energy and influences Giulia decided to “give birth” to a new album:  “Dust and Desire” (Ugly Cat Music/Audiglobe 2012)

Her fourth studio effort, “The Funambulist” (Ugly Cat Music 2014), is a musical investigation of the art of balancing…people, languages, realities and life in general.