My First Guitar Book Signing at The Rock House
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…
Reading/Performance at Cultivate Urban Rainforest & Gallery
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…
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…
A Heritage of Guitar-Making
The address of 225 Parsons in Kalamazoo, Michigan should be a bucket list destination for any fan of vintage Gibson guitars. It is the original factory site where former New Yorker Orville Gibson founded Gibson … Read more…
Guitar Lessons With Julia
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…
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…
Scotty Moore’s interview in My First Guitar
In honor of Scotty Moore’s memory, I am posting his complete interview here from My First Guitar: Tales of True Love and Lost Chords. Moore was the Sun Studios guitarist who auditioned a young Elvis … Read more…
Outlaw Jazz with the Speakeasy Jazz Cats
It’s no surprise that Dusty Tovsen, a roving bandleader, singer and guitarist of the Speakeasy Jazz Cats, has the sort of family tree that includes a Chicago mob boss on one side and a Guinness … Read more…
A Guitarist Carves Out Long Lost Notation
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…
My First Guitar Book Trailer now on Barnes & Noble
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…
Recreation of Whistler’s Peacocks
For the fun of it, I am sharing a link to this post of a painting effort that I completed a couple months ago. * * *
Taimane Gardner’s Dynamic Transformation of the Ukulele
It is hard to believe that the music Taimane Gardner plays comes out of a tiny ukulele. Her playing convey the full sound of a guitar, albeit one that was left inside a dryer and … Read more…
A Kora Player in Jackson Square
A Kora Player in Jackson Square While darting one morning from New Orleans’ Treme District into the French Quarter, a shimmering strain of strings caught my attention. The melody cascaded over light percussion and drifted … Read more…
Stereopticon Album Release Party Photo Album
Gary Lucas and Jann Klose celebrated the release of their spirited and spectacularly joyful 4-star MOJO Magazine reviewed album, Stereopticon, Monday evening, May 2, to a packed house at The Cutting Room in New York City. … 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…
4-Star Review for Stereopticon!
Congratulations to Gary Lucas and Jann Klose on their recent 4-star MOJO review for their album Stereopticon!
Guitarist Sylwia Kloc
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…
Magos and Límon Concert at the Americas Society
Audience members who attended the Magos Herrera and Javier Limón concert at the Americas Society received a single red rose as a sweet gesture to celebrate both the approaching Valentine’s Day holiday and the evening’s … Read more…
Gary Lucas & Jann Klose’s Stereopticon – Album Photo Shoot
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…
Happy Birthday to Sugar Blue!
Through completely crazy serendipity, I was fortunate to be invited to celebrate harmonica legend Sugar Blue’s birthday with his family and friends at a concert at Rosa’s in Chicago earlier this month, where I took … Read more…
Anthony Ocaña’s Ethereal In Trance Album
Anthony Ocaña’s In Trance Anthony Ocaña, the Madrid-based, Dominican-born guitarist, has released his fifth album In Trance featuring an ethereal blend of African-Caribbean music he has composed and performed on electric and classical guitar. Enhanced … Read more…
Luna Monti and Juan Quintero Duo’s New York Debut
The outstanding Argentine folk duo, Juan Quintero and Luna Monti, made their New York debut earlier this month at the Americas Society, in a concert that mixed popular Argentine songs along with their own original … Read more…
Topchii and Dukić at Carnegie Hall
The final concert of this season’s D’Addario Performance Series featured the Carnegie Hall debuts of soloists Marko Topchii and Zoran Dukić. Marko Topchii, who is from Kiev, Ukraine, has won over 50 awards in international … 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…
Guitar Legend Dick Dale – “Misirlou” at the start
[Note to readers: this is the second installment of The Guitar’s interview with legendary guitarist Dick Dale, the creator and pioneer of surf/rock music…] Despite what the world may think, Dick Dale did not write “Misirlou,” … Read more…
LANDR – A Guitar Soloist’s Experiment
Released this past year, LANDR is a new online mastering process designed to provide quick, DIY sound engineering. It is based on an adaptive algorithm that allows artists to quickly and affordably refine the sound, … Read more…
Dick Dale Talks Guitars, Amps, Lions and a Yacht
[Note to readers: this story is from a 2015 interview, but I am reposting in memory of Dick Dale, who died last Saturday at age 81. He was one-of-a-kind, an innovator, a natural storyteller and … Read more…
The Met’s Historic Guitar Concert Videos
The Met’s Historic Guitar Concert Videos The Metropolitan Museum of Art currently showcases several concert videos on their official Youtube channel featuring leading artists who were invited to perform five different historically significant guitars from … Read more…
Old Postcards from Madrid
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…
My First Guitar Mentioned in Marc Maron’s Podcast
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…
Berta Rojas at the Latin GRAMMYS
Last month, Latin Grammy-nominated classical guitarist Berta Rojas had the honor of presenting awards to several artists for the televised broadcast of the ceremony from MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. This year marks Rojas’ … Read more…
Los Romeros at the 92nd Street Y
The Romeros performed late October in the 2014-15 season of the 92nd Street Y’s Art of the Guitar series. Pepe Romero and Celin Romero, sons of the legendary guitarist Celedonio, were joined by the third generation of Romeros, … Read more…
Guitarists Lin and Baranov at Carnegie Hall
Guitarists Lin and Baranov at Carnegie Hall Guitarists Chiawei Lin and Anton Baranov performed late October in the opening concert of the D’Addario Foundation’s Performance Series at Carnegie Hall. The series, first established in 1981, … 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…
JIMMY PAGE by Jimmy Page, with Jeff Koons, too
Guitarist Jimmy Page arrived this week in New York to launch his photographic autobiography, Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page (Genesis Publications), which documents his contribution to music in over 650 photographs, starting with his early adoration … Read more…