Julia is a fingerstyle-playing electric guitar soloist and film composer whose music conveys a highly evocative and otherworldly quality with a rock edge. She also works in diverse mediums (photography, painting and digital animation) to enhance the inherent storytelling within her music.

She is the author of the indie bestseller My First Guitar:  Tales of True Love and Lost Chords from 70 Legendary Musicians (Souvenir Press, Ltd.), featured in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s library.

She has written music for the soundtrack of Drop City, a film documentary, which has screened at major U.S. and international art and design museum festivals, including MoMA’s Art Dome, The Barbican Cinema in London, The Bosch Film Festival in Amsterdam, Istanbul’s Millenium Design Fest, New Zealand’s Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival and The Seattle Design Festival.  She has also recorded music for The Evanstonian, a film documentary retrospective on the works of artist-actor Ron Crawford (of Luc Besson’s Arthur et les Minimoys film series.)

Her solo instrumental works for the electric guitar, along with her book, have been featured on National Public Radio and Australia’s ABC Radio.  Her music is available via this website, iTunes, Bandcamp, CDBaby – Julia’s albums and Amazon..

Paul Barrosse, supervising producer for VH1’s Behind the Music, calls her music, “Amazing and otherworldly–Julia is obviously a Guitar Sorceress.”

Fingerstyle Guitar 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.”

Over a 10-year span, Ms. Crowe wrote monthly columns, cover stories and features for various publications such as Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Guitar Player, FRETS, Mel Bay’s Guitaresessions and Down Beat, in addition to writing a monthly column for Classical Guitar Magazine (UK) and Gendai Guitar (Japan.)  She is the founder of THE GUITAR, which features interviews and photographs of guitarists and guitar makers from all music genres.

She is the recipient of an American Composer’s Forum Encore Grant and her music was featured among the works of 12 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.  She has performed at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, and headlined at a tiny club in London where both Coldplay and Amy Winehouse made their debuts.  She has also performed at the New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes, The University of Buffalo and was the first electric guitar soloist to perform at the University of Houston.

During the pandemic, she has spent time painting, working on a forthcoming album release in addition to actualizing her years of study and certification in industry level perfumery to create her first fragrance release through her own niche perfume company, www.airandweather.com.

She is a graduate of the University of Chicago.

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