Jude Johnstone was born and raised in Ellsworth, Maine where she spent many hot summers working in her grandfather's fields harvesting blueberries for his company, Merrill's Blueberry Farms. When she turned 16, she worked in his factory, packing the frozen blueberries into 30 lb. boxes which were shipped all over the world.

However, the family business was not in Jude’s future. It was writing songs that inspired her life’s focus and direction. Johnstone had begun writing songs shortly after discovering th…