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…
A Guitarist Carves Out Long Lost Notation [6/22/16 UPDATE: Tim has launched a Kickstarter campaign for this project. Please visit the link to view the video and participate!!] My friend Tim Brookes, the author of Guitar: … 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…
Congratulations to Gary Lucas and Jann Klose on their recent 4-star MOJO review for their album Stereopticon!
Guitarist Sylwia Kloc Sylwia Kloc, who wrote the review of the recent February 2016 Herrera-Limón concert at the Americas Society, is a classical guitarist from Poland. She received her Bachelor and Master Degrees from Mannes … Read more…
My First Guitar mentioned in Marc Maron’s Podcast Thank you to Marc Maron for mentioning My First Guitar: Tales of True Love and Lost Chords by 70 Legendary Musicians in his podcast interview with Conan … 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…
Pleased for the mention of My First Guitar in Art Lark: An Alternative Cultural Daybook, on this piece about Paco Peña. Read the full article here. * * *
I am working at the moment on a few new guitar stories to be posted possibly toward later in the upcoming week… In the meantime: my recipe for Barcelona-style hot chocolate. It’s not as thick as … Read more…
I give my thanks to those who have mailed incredibly heartfelt letters in response to reading My First Guitar. I thought I would mention something from one of them: a father wrote to say that … Read more…
Welcome to this page, which I’m viewing as a moveable feast as I work on my next book, a historical novel, which does include a harrowing ship journey by sea undertaken by a humble but gutsy instrument … Read more…
The Guitar Where did the vowels go? I replaced them in the title graphics with the following items: 1. Fretboard of a Les Paul Gibson Standard. 2. A Damp-it, a guitar humidifier. It’s a piece … Read more…