Professor Louie & The Crowmatix

Biography

Prof. "Louie" - Frank Campbell - Miss Marie - Josh Colow - Gary Burke

Professor Louie & The Crowmatix, Woodstock, NY - The group came into existence preparing songs for Aaron Professor Louie Hurwitz' studio productions for the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame group The Band. They are also the backing group for solo CD's by Rick Danko and Garth Hudson.

Professor Louie & The Crowmatix started touring and recording their own music in 2001. They have six studio CD's and two live recordings on The Woodstock Records label. Woodstock Records has just released Professor Louie & The Crowmatix latest CD, Whispering Pines. In spring 2008, they released As the Crow Flies. This CD has new originals and songs from their previous recordings which were most requested by fans and radio stations. The group continues to perform in concert at premier theaters, clubs & festivals, playing over 150 shows a year. Professor Louie has been teaching and performing at Common Ground On The Hill at McDaniel College for the past few years.

Professor Louie & the Crowmatix have the distinct honor of being the first artists to have a live concert recording released by The New York State Museum entitled The Spirit Of Woodstock. Their CD Century Of The Blues averaged # 20 for six months on the Americana Radio Roots charts and their music has consistently stayed on these charts for the past eight years. Professor Louie & The Crowmatix have been featured artists on syndicated radio shows, Acoustic Cafe, E-Town, public radio show Live At the Linda. The Mitch Albom Radio Show & Woodsongs Radio Hour.

They have appeared on the CBS Television Special Melodies Of Christmas performing their international award winning song Melody Of Peace collaborating with The Empire State Orchestra and Choir. Their musicianship has enabled them to cross over into different musical genres and perform in concert with Orchestras and Choirs.

Elmore Magazine - The Crowmatix tour nationally and abroad and every concert gets better than the last.
The Village Voice - Professor Louie's upstate ensemble is an Americana template that is timeless rock, country, blues and New Orleans influenced originals
The Record Review - This is a great band.

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THE MEMBERS

AARON PROFESSOR "LOUIE" HURWITZ: Multi-instrumentalist - Hammond organ/keyboards/accordion and exceptional vocalist. He was tagged Prof. "Louie"
by The Band vocalist/bassist Rick Danko while performing together as a duo.
Prof. Louie co-produced, engineered and performed on The Band's last three CD's, "Jericho", "High On The Hog" and "Jubilation". Other production credits include two CD's with Ireland's Four Men and A Dog, The David Nelson Band's Visions' Under The Moon, Rick Danko's CD's "Live On Breeze Hill" & "Times Like These" and he produced and played with The Crowmatix on "The Sea To The North" by Garth Hudson. He has performed with Graham Parker, toured and recorded with Mercury Rev on their acclaimed CD's & also with Guy Davis. Early in his career, he was the pianist and organist for the The Mighty Gospel Giants Of Brooklyn. Recently, Louie made an instructional DVD for Homespun Tapes - "Rock & Blues Accordion".
In the last two years, Louie traveled three times to Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia where he taught students English through singing and performed with many musical groups there. A documentary of his experiences "Woodstock-Siberia Blues Express" was featured in the 2007 Woodstock Film Festival and The International Maine Film Festival.

GARY BURKE: has held an esteemed career as drummer for Bob Dylan, Graham Parker and many others & best known to the public for his long tenure on drums on over a dozen albums with Joe Jackson. Starting in 1983 with the release of the Top Ten Gold album "Body and Soul", Gary continued on into the '90s with Joe Jackson in a mind-boggling mix of musical landscapes of gold, platinum and Grammy winning albums combined with many world tours and media profiles such as in Modern Drummer Magazine. Gary Burke was the drummer and percussionist for The Radio City Music Hall Orchestra for four years during the 80's.

MARIE SPINOSA: Miss Marie from Brooklyn, NY - singer/songwriter, pianist/percussionist had performed for many years in concert with her own groups in the tri-state area. Miss Marie toured the college circuit before moving to upstate NY. She has co-written many of the songs on Professor "Louie" & The Crowmatix releases. Miss Marie's strong vocals and percussion can be heard on varied recordings: "Deserter's Song" by Mercury Rev, "Jubilation" by The Band and also with Four Men & A Dog. Her soulful background vocals are featured on Rick Danko's "Sip The Wine" single CD and also on Rick Danko's "Times Like These" CD. Miss Marie's percussion can be heard on Garth Hudson's CD "The Sea To The North". Miss Marie has a solo CD with The Crowmatix "Collection.

FRANK CAMPBELL: Frank played bass with The Rick Danko, Levon Helm duo tours of the 70's and early 80's. From there he moved on playing with Steve Forbert as well as Cindy Cashdollar and relocated to Austin, TX where he worked with the group Asleep At The Wheel for ten years in the studio and on the road. Frank then moved back to the Woodstock area and teamed up with "Louie".

JOSH COLOW: From Woodstock, New York - An in demand rhythm & blues guitarist,
Josh has toured The United States and Europe with Jesse Winchester as well as with his own group and as a soloist. Josh was signed to EMI Europe and had a #1 hit in Italy with his group TiPiCal in the 90's. He has worked in the studio with Livingston Taylor, Artie Traum and more.