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Julia Crowe is a New York-based writer and guitarist soloist whose music is both inventive and highly evocative. Originally from a classical guitar background, she performs original fingerstyle pieces on the electric. Paul Barrosse, supervising producer of VH1's Behind the Music series, calls her debut album, Smoke & Steel, "Amazing and otherworldly. Julia is obviously a Guitar Sorceress." Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine writes, “A musical chameleon with an ethereal sound and a uniquely nightshade hue of the blues, each one of Julia's pieces tells its own story in varied landscapes of mood, texture and dimension brought together by incandescent guitar playing.” She has also recorded music for Evanstonian, a film documentary retrospective on the works of artist Ron Crawford.
Ms. Crowe has authored numerous magazine cover stories and features for Classical Guitar Magazine (U.K.), Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Guitar Player, FRETS, Mel Bay's Guitarsessions, Down Beat and Soundboard. A graduate of the University of Chicago with a degree in English Literature, she has lived and performed in New York, London, Los Angeles, Wexford, Ireland and in Paris, where she performed at Notre Dame Cathedral. She has also performed solo in Chicago’s Grant Park, the Daley Center Plaza and at DePaul University.
She is the recipient of an American Composer's Forum Encore Grant and her music was featured among the works of twelve other composers from around the world in SONIC Channels, a concert hosted by The New School University Media Studies Department and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Limited pre-release copies of her debut instrumental CD are now available on her website, with the official release in March, 2009. Updates will be forthcoming!
Julia composed half the tracks of her new album upon a cedar-topped Bérnabe made by luthier Darren Hippner and she performs fingerstyle on a Les Paul Standard.
For more details & updates, please visit her website at:
www.juliacrowe.com
To order copies of sheet music for her piece, Sid's Swagger, please visit here or place an order directly at:
Sheet music is also available for The Road to Indio:
Photo credits for Julia's portraits and myspace background: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
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