Julia featured on Book Shepherd

Julia was asked recently by Book Shepherd, a new website devoted to “Discovering the Best Books,” to offer her selection of recommendations for the category of “The Best Books on What Drives an Artist.” Thank … Read more…

Julia’s March 13th Concert at Port Jeff

Julia is making a return engagement to the Greater Port Jefferson Northern Brookhaven Arts Council Concert Series on Friday, March 13, 2020, at 7:30 PM. The concert will be held at the Port Jefferson Village … Read more…

Julia Featured in 44:16 Zine

Julia is featured in a 5-page long interview in Issue No. 3 of 44:16, a zine written and created by David Wallens, who is also the editor of Classic Car and Motorsports. 44:16 is “an … Read more…

Book Giveaway WINNER ANNOUNCED!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ADAM CUTSINGER, winner of a signed copy of My First Guitar.  Please check your email! If you would like updates on stories from this site, please subscribe. THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY SUBSCRIBED!! … Read more…

An Accidental Invention for the Guitar

A year or so ago, backstage at the New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes, Sharon Isbin suggested that I write about the inventor of a guitar support device. “His name is Tim Johnson, and a … Read more…

Cover Story on Leo Brouwer

Julia’s (photograph and) interview with legendary Cuban conductor-composer-guitarist Leo Brouwer is the featured story for the May 2018 issue of Classical Guitar magazine, which can be found at your local Barnes & Noble bookstore. * * * … Read more…

March 24-25, 2018 Concert & Lecture

Julia will be performing at Buffalo State College on Saturday, March 24, 2018, 7:30-9:00 PM, at Ciminelli Recital Hall and she will be giving a lecture on her book, My First Guitar:  Tales of True Love … Read more…

Julia’s CDs on Bandcamp

Julia’s CDs/tracks featuring her solo instrumental electric guitar music are available for download from Bandcamp. Check out the player below. Empire of Light is her most recent CD release.  Smoke & Steel is a compilation … Read more…

New Video

Julia has created a new video, an animation of Salvador Dalí’s painting, The Persistence of Memory. The original painting can be viewed at The Modern Museum of Art in New York.  

Book of the Month

A big thank you to Steve, who runs Steve O’Donnell’s Guitar School in Tauranga, New Zealand, for selecting My First Guitar:  Tales of True Love and Lost Chords as Book of the Month for May … Read more…

DROP CITY film – $3.99 online rental

Great news!  Drop City, the feature film documentary with Julia’s music in its soundtrack, is now viewable online as a $3.99 rental (72 hour viewing period) from Vimeo on-demand:  

Interview with The Guitar Channel

Julia was interviewed recently by Pierre Journel, the host of The Guitar Channel Passion Amplifier podcast on iTunes, about her book, My First Guitar:  Tales of True Love and Lost Chords.  Thank you again to … Read more…

DROP CITY in Deutschland, April 2017

DROP CITY, which features Julia’s music in its soundtrack, will be screening in Frankfurt, Germany on APRIL 18, 2017, 7:30 PM, at the Naxos Kino as a special program of the research group “International Dissidence … Read more…

Drop City Screens Tomorrow in Glasgow

The feature film documentary DROP CITY by Joan Grossman & Tom McCourt, which features Julia’s music in its soundtrack, will be screening FREE tomorrow, September 7, 2016 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, … Read more…

Guitar Lessons With Julia

Julia is offering Private and Skype guitar lessons for children and adults.  Ms. Crowe is an award-winning guitarist and composer, adept at teaching both classical and electric guitar.  She is an experienced teacher for the … Read more…

A 5th String Subbing Cicada

I am looking forward to the moment when cicada season passes so I can hear myself think again. The tree outside my front terrace thrums loudly like a giant, shaking maraca with these screeching bugs … Read more…

Completed Illustration

I’m happily back into the full swing of key-framing and will have some great stories forthcoming here soon on some compelling musicians.  In the meantime, I thought I would share a glimpse of this one project … Read more…

Drop City screens in New Zealand

The film documentary DROP CITY, which features Julia’s music, will be screening in four cities in New Zealand–Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch today through July–as part of the Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival.  For … Read more…

Old Postcards from Madrid

One thing I could not get right in Madrid last year was timing.  The city shuts down between 2 PM to 5 PM for siesta.  The ensuing photographs document the places I attempted to visit … Read more…

Drop City screens in Istanbul

The film documentary Drop City, which features Julia Crowe’s guitar music in its soundtrack, will screen again this year in Istanbul on December 16th at the 2014 Istanbul Tasarım Bienali/2nd Istanbul Design Biennial, free of charge. The screening … Read more…

Dancing about Architecture

Dancing to Architecture – Gaudí’s Casa Batlló During my last year of college, long before the advent of mobile phones, I made a payphone call in the hallway and noticed someone left a chair nearby. When I … Read more…

Vaux’s Swifts

  If you would like to purchase this track directly from the iTunes Store, it would be appreciated, thank you!  

Grotesques and Guitars

These are nighttime photos of Carrer del Bisbe Irurita or Bishop’s Walk in El Barrí Gotic, Barcelona.  I must thank a number of friends who gave me tips of things to see (throughout all of Spain, … Read more…

La Boqueria

I was especially jet-lagged upon arriving in Barcelona after a 2-hour flight delay out of JFK due to poor weather conditions and glad to be staggering down Las Ramblas, squinting against the sunlight and taking … Read more…

Bats & Umbrellas

A track called Bats & Umbrellas from Smoke & Steel with a view overlooking the front lawn of West Dean College in Chichester, UK, where it was inspired.  I attended a guitar festival here several … Read more…

Moth

“Moth” is my most recent animated video, completed this past December.  The track is from EMPIRE OF LIGHT.  If you would like to purchase this track from the iTunes Store, it is available here and … Read more…