22-year-old Athens, GA-based singer-songwriter Julia Barfield was raised in the foothills of the North Georgia mountains – an upbringing filled with the folk and Americana music that inspire her sound and the experiences that inform her writing. Barfield’s debut EP, “Keep to Me,” released in 2025, is a definitively southern patchwork of songs that is equal parts heartache and hope, delivering difficult truths with casual conviction and a warm, gentle-yet-commanding sound that have become her signature.