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 Crowe will be performing a return engagement at Port Jeff’s Wintertide Festival March 18, 2022 at the Village Center, 101 E. Broadway, Port Jefferson, New York, 7 PM. She will be performing an evening … Read more…
Julia Crowe 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 … Read more…
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…
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…
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…
Julia will be performing for the opening of painter and sculptor Natalie Giugni‘s art show at Eonta Space Gallery, Saturday May 12, 2018, from 1 to 6 PM. Eonta Space Gallery is located at … Read more…
Julia Crowe 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 … Read more…
My First Guitar: Tales of True Love and Lost Chords by Julia Crowe has been released by Souvenir Press, Ltd. in London and is available online and within the U.K. and all U.K. territories. Souvenir … Read more…
Julia will be performing as a guest artist in the “Something New” concert series for the Greater Port Jefferson Northern Brookhaven Arts Council on December 22, 2017, at 7 PM. The concert will be held … Read more…
Julia’s music, 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…
Julia created a new animated video that creatively brings to life Salvador Dalí’s painting, The Persistence of Memory. The original painting can be viewed at The Modern Museum of Art in New York.
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…
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:
Julia was interviewed recently by Pierre Journel, host of The Guitar Channel Passion Amplifier podcast on iTunes, about her book, My First Guitar: Tales of True Love and Lost Chords. The book is a collection … Read more…
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…
Julia will be reading and holding a book signing for My First Guitar: Tales of True Love and Lost Chords at The Rock House on November 3rd, 2016 at 7:00 PM at their 1742 Glenview, … Read more…
Drop by Cultivate Urban Rainforest & Gallery on October 27, 2016 6:00 p.m. at 704 Main Street in downtown Evanston, IL for a spooky presentation of “Vines and Wines,” by storyteller extraordinaire, Nili Yelin Wronski. … Read more…
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…
Julia is offering Private and Zoom 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…
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…
The animated book trailer that I created and produced for My First Guitar is now officially part of the Barnes & Noble page for the book! Scroll down past the excerpt for a look. The … Read more…
For the fun of it, I am sharing a link to this post of a painting effort that I completed a couple months ago. * * *
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…
I shot the cover for Gary Lucas and Jann Klose’s Stereopticon album during the dog days of summer in the historic garden of The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, located in the West … Read more…
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 … Read more…
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 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. … Read more…
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 … Read more…
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…
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” 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…
A few photos of bright yet smoky, incandescent light taken outside my windows earlier this winter. The top menu of this blog marked “Julia” will feature ongoing updates with new photo galleries, music works and … Read more…