Salvador Dali, Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, Seamus Heaney, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Sheri Holman, Saul Bellow, Mary Karr, Ian McEwan, Flannery O'Connor, Irene Nemirovsky, William Lilly, Dostoyevsky, W.B. Yeats, Joan Didion, Marguerite Duras, Graham Greene, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ben Hecht, Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka, Studs Terkel, Atom Egoyan, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Gustav Klimt, Man Ray, Alfred Steiglitz, Rene Magritte, Bill Irwin, Richard Price, William Morris, Edward Ruscha, Claes Oldenburg, Elbert Hubbard Roycroft, Vermeer, A.E. Hotchner, Edward Hopper, Edward Gorey cartoons, Renoir, Tony Bourdain, Rodolph Salis & Aristide Bruante. Also: copious quantities of molten brown fresh espresso topped with tan crema, the java equivalent of a Guinness.
Musical influences: Any kind of guitar, guitars & guitarists + anything that can be translated to 6 strings. I'm not picky...as long as I like it.
Julia Crowe is a New York-based guitarist whose music, like her writing, conveys an inventive, dextrous and slyly humorous style delivered with skillful mastery. She performs original fingerstyle pieces on both electric and classical nylon string guitar. 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 recently recorded music for Evanstonian, a film documentary retrospective on the works of artist Ron Crawford.
Ms. Crowe has authored over a dozen 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 work was recently featured among the works of twelve other composers from around the world in SONIC Channels: Emerging Media Publics, an audio concert hosted by The New School University Media Studies Department and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Also, in 2004, she was asked to perform an arrangement of John Lennon’s “Imagine” at a 9/11 memorial concert in Manhattan, where she resides.
News on the release of her debut instrumental CD will be forthcoming toward December, 2008.
Julia plays a cedar-topped Bérnabe made by luthier Darren Hippner and 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: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
I think In a Dark Woods is another good one. Fits the title fine. From Dallas home of the art revolution, and Post-Bands music ( Your music seems to fit the definition of the new back-to-basics music that finally gives an alt to the boredom of bands).
Hey Julia, Your minimalist touch never ceases to impress me. Your new piece is like Dick Dale + Angus Young + too many espressos after dinner. It's haunting, bluesy, and urgent. Very cool!!! The story behind the music has an imagery that is to be taken slowly and savored like a fine Merlot. It's the type of imagery that's missing in today's "instant" society. Please continue with your artistic endeavors. Thinking people need you.
Hello Julia I like 'In A Dark Woods', both the song and the story behind the song. So could this be another string to your bow? Thank You for sharing. Love Charles
Very insightful article about Pino Forastiere in Oct. 2006 Classical Guitar. You have the abilitly to express in words what others feel but cannot express. He will be back in Detroit in March 2009. He is an amazing composer. All the best from us @ MFGS
Julia, I am really impressed by your playing and composing abilities. Thanks for the add - from Dallas home of the art revolution - new century, new everything. (And come hear some of my instrumentals on my 1964 Silvertone Standard. )
Did Eddie Cochran once glance in your parents direction and murmer..there goes a vestibule for an incarnation, albeit unconventional (as am I) of guitar twanging abilities, that will one day stun an unprepared audience...
