The scene opens like this. Open mic night. Seventeen. Alone. The only girl in the room. Julie stands on stage wailing away on a cheap guitar — wearing another hole in the finish, weaving a tune with a set of gutsy vocals and stomping out a rhythm with a pair of steel-toed combat boots. Two songs later, Julie steps off stage and puts her guitar back in its case. A fellow musician walks up and says, simply, "Give up everything before you give up this." Catch her south Jersey debut as she kicks off 2006.