Alvin Crow – Music Director

Alvin Crow has had an illustrious music career. The Oklahoma native sat in the Oklahoma City Orchestra as a child and has been playing under spotlights ever since. Migrating to Austin in the early 1970s, Crow fused his classical training to the raw country & western music of his youth and developed a distinctive style of fiddling that fit perfectly with the progressive country sound dominating Austin during the 1970s. With countless incarnations of his band and a successful music career spanning several decades, Crow remains a top draw at Austin’s legendary Broken Spoke, fiddling away to a packed dance floor.

In addition to his lengthy career as a professional musician and his Texas Music Hall of Fame stardom, Crow has been instrumental in teaching and coaching budding young musicians. Even during his own youth, Alvin would gather the neighborhood boys together and instruct each on the various instruments so that he could play rock and roll music with his friends. Crow has since developed and perfected a teaching method for instructing raw beginners as young as eight on how to understand simple music theory and begin actually playing rock and roll music. He has been the Music Director and backbone for music camps and year-round music programs here in Austin for close to 15 years and has worked behind the scenes guiding young artists on their paths toward careers as professional musicians.