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Allison Crowe's Tidings Concert: Allison Crowe

Fri. November 27th 2009 Pender Islands Community Hall Pender Islands BC $15-$20

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Allison Crowe's Tidings Concert: Allison Crowe

Expect plenty of holiday cheer, laced with overtones of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitc...
Event can be attended in person In-Person Event
Music Folk / Celtic / Latin / World Jazz / Blues Pop / Rock / Indie
Fri. November 27th 2009 + Add to Calendar Pender Islands Community Hall (All Ages)
8:00pm - 10:00pm  Doors at: 7:30pm $20 General/$15 Students & Seniors

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Allison Crowe
Original - Rock from Corner Brook & Nanaimo Newfoun
since circa 2001

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Physical tickets at: Talisman Books & Gallery, Southridge Farms Country Store

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Expect plenty of holiday cheer, laced with overtones of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, jazz and more, when fun and exciting musician Allison Crowe unwraps her “Tidings” tour at the Pender Islands Community Hall.

"Music for the season and all time." Tidings stirs together traditional Christmas carols and holiday favourites with an organic blend of rock, jazz, folk, gospel and soul. "The Yuletide find of the year," says The Record. "Be prepared to be amazed," chimes ChristmasReviews.com

"Allison Crowe has a voice to fall in love with," says UK music industry journal Record of the Day. “She is from Vancouver Island in Canada, descended from Scottish, Irish and Manx stock. She's exactly the sort of artist who can make serious headway on her own label and that's just what she's doing."

When this phenomenon 'from the islands' (Vancouver Island and Newfoundland) reached the mainland she steered a path clear of what Joni Mitchell knowingly calls the record business' "style inventions". With Ani DiFranco as a model of integrity, and Creative Commons licensing changing the "game" for resourceful musicians, Crowe created her own label. Since 2003, Rubenesque Records Ltd has released six critically and commercially successful albums: Lisa’s Song + 6 Songs; Secrets; Tidings; Live at Wood Hall; This Little Bird; and Little Light. Crowe's next album is Spiral.

"The first thing you notice about Allison Crowe is her voice. Rich and dark, it seems to come from a place most singers can only dream of accessing. Then there are the songs. Filled with raw passion and accompanied by Crowe's eloquent piano playing," writes Clodagh O'Connell (The Courier). Hers is a joyous sound: "Elton John meets Edith Piaf." A sensation at the UK's John Lennon Northern Lights Festival, where she performed on a bill with the Queen's Master of Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, and the UK's Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, "Canadian angel Alison Crowe gave one of the weekend's most magical moments," says The Scotsman. Festival Director Mike Merritt describes Crowe as "awesome" and "spine-tingling", noting her performance "put hairs on the back of your neck! She brought the house down."

A true grassroots success, Crowe is praised not only as a singularly talented songwriter - on themes personal as well as worldly - and as an exciting, visceral, performer, but, also, as a supreme interpreter of song. Her vital takes on such 21st century standards as Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and Joni Mitchell's "River" are applauded as "truly transcendent" and her singular covers have achieved broad, even mainstream, popularity, featured by BBC Radio, MOJO magazine and by acclaimed Hollywood director Zack Snyder (300, The Watchmen).

Longtime NPR broadcaster Ross Hocker calls Allison Crowe's show, "The most honest, heartfelt, and directly intimate concert in my entire life."

Date/Time: Friday, November 27, 2009 Doors: 7:30 p.m. Music: 8:00 p.m.

Venue: Pender Islands Community Hall (4418 Bedwell Harbour Road)

Tickets: $20 General/$15 Students & Seniors - Advance (all charges incl.)
(Door: $22/$17)

Tickets @ Talisman Books & Gallery, & Southridge Farms Country Store; online @ http://www.allisoncrowe.com/shoptickets.html

Info: http://www.allisoncrowe.com + http://www.penderislands.org

Contact: 250-537-1286 or email [email protected]

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