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Julia Crowe

Composer/Guitarist/Writer

About Me

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 autumn, 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:

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Member Since: 9/20/2006
Band Website: juliacrowe.com
Band Members: Want to glimpse New York without leaving home? Times Square Cam Ground Zero Cam
Influences: 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.

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