Maple Street Concerts

Patchouli Tribute Concert Celebrating a life in Music & Arts Tickets $20 at the door(cash or check only) or via PayPal $21.25

Julie Patchouli has been a professional touring singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist since age 18. She has, with her husband and master guitarist Bruce Hecksel, performed over 5,000 concerts around the world in a 30 year career as the #1 Charting International Guitar folk duo Patchouli & Terra Guitarra. They met thru music in Illinois in early ‘90s, joined a band (Aunt Betsy) in Olympia, WA, returned to Chicago in 1996, married, started playing as the duo Bruce & Julie, renamed Patchouli in 1999. Their first shows were in Illinois folk clubs, and college campuses and quickly expanded to venues around the U. S. In 2007 they created a second musical project, Terra Guitarra that took off on the international scene. Four of Terra Guitarra albums were nominated for ZMR "Best Instrumental Album of the Year." Their album Of Sea & Stars won that award. The folk power couple joyfully crafted their sound of folk meets Flamenco that City Pages described like “taking a yoga class in a field of running mustangs” with poetic lyrics, sparkling vocals, rhythmic steel strings and soulful Spanish guitar creating songs that "inspire the human spirit" -Chicago Tribune. Through the years, in the background of their thriving musical lives, Bruce was also painting and many of his pieces became album artwork. In 2015 they created a multi-media production, The Landscape of Guitar, The Animated Painting Concert Experience, a live music performance with projected animation of Bruce’s original acrylic paintings of guitar shaped scenes. In April 2025.They opened the Terra Guitarra Fine Art Gallery & Studio near their home in Wisconsin. Sadly, in July 2025 after a three year battle with stage IV cancer, Bruce suffered a stroke and passed away. Patchouli was working on their 23rd recording together when Bruce died. Julie went back into the studio this winter to finish the album and it releases this Spring.

This concert was scheduled a year ago and cancelled when Bruce died. Julie reached out recently, wanting to perform a memorial concert honoring Bruce in Illinois, where they first met, began their long beautiful musical journey, and where they garnered a supportive fanbase from the very start. She returns to the Maple Street Chapel stage for a special concert celebrating Bruce’s life in the Arts, performing fan favorite songs and sharing the new album release "Everything it Takes".

Patchouli www.patchouli.net