“You All
Haunt Me” opens the debut album
from Allison Crowe and Band - Heirs + Grievances. And the first music video for the double-disc set
is this song paired with scenes from Ménilmontant, the silent cinema classic
from Dimitri Kirsanoff featuring partner Nadia Sibirskaïa and Yolande Beaulieu.
Timeless + Transcendent: Allison Crowe and Band on Tour and Record
Like Bob Dylan at Newport, like Bruce
Springsteen at The Bottom Line, Allison Crowe and
Band electrified musically on tour in Europe this
past month. Here’s the group’s final bow – on stage
in Brussels after the second or third encore of the
night: l – r -
Sarah White (mandolin, guitar, vocals); Céline
Greb aka
Lin Lin (cello, vocals);
Dave Baird (bass); and
Allison Crowe (vocals, piano, guitar, fiddle,
bodhran).
This closing concert of the first leg of of the
“Heirs
+ Grievances”
tour happens in a place where love and life carry
on following recent tragedy. Allison Crowe’s
performance of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” blew
past the soundboard’s limits, allowing artist and
audience to continue a capella while the audio
equipment was reset.
The power of music to transcend was evident
throughout the group’s month-long tour of
Germany, Slovenia, Italy, England and Belgium.
“In the past,” notes Harrison, “Crowe has
devoted herself to trad folk, contemporary
rock, Christmas songs and music of Leonard
Cohen, all of which have merged into these two
discs to create a portrait of an idealist —
with the addition of her between-songs talk on
the live recording revealing a bubbly
personality.”
One of the greatest rock and roll escapades since
the ’60s ends a chapter today in Europe as Allison
Crowe (vocals, piano, guitar, fiddle, bodhran),
Céline Greb aka Lin Lin (cello, vocals), Sarah
White (mandolin, guitar, vocals), und Dave Baird
(bass), part ways after this first leg of their “Heirs
+ Grievances” tour. We say farewell for now to
Milka Smid, Intl. Tour Liaison, and Axel
Dollheiser, Driver & Road Manager.
Thank you for coming out and being part of it
all – Frankfurt,
Izola, Firenze, Berlin, Dennach, Vaihingen an der
Enz, Neunkirchen, Grunbach / Engelsbrand, Hamburg,
Hastings, Hoielaart and Brussels!! We hope to bring
the music to the whole world.
“My heart is full but it's also breaking ,
if I'm being honest - this is exactly the same
picture i posted last night from
@racines_bruxelles but for some reason it took
a series of 6? Anyways why not?? - I couldn't
ask for a better band or more amazing friends
from all over the world - from Frankfurt to
Brussels - and last night's show was the most
fun I've had in years - which just makes it
harder to know the tour is over! If anyone
knows me - I'm usually tired at the end of
tours - and yes I'm tired now - but I feel I
could keep going forever - can't wait til next
time -candles wtf forever! Holy f×× and THEN
SOME - remember to never owl alone. (Inside
jokes sorry haha)”
On Easter Sunday 2016 the “Heirs + Grievances”
Tour of Allison Crowe and Band hopped into Radio
Koper in Slovenia as part of a visit hatched by the
country’s brilliant arts patron and cultural
liaison Milka Smid-O’Reilly. The quartet chatted
with radio host Drago Mislej aka Mef and
musician/translator Matej Krajnc (of popular
Maribo-based group Sužnji Sendvičev) and performed
four songs live-on-air before RK’s in-studio
audience.
Canada’s Allison Crowe uniquely inhabits the world
of song – continually adding breadth and depth to a
richly peerless repertoire for piano, vocals,
guitar, fiddle and bodhran. Crowe’s “supernaturally
agile and exquisite voice”, (as it's distilled by
Muruch), is mated ideally with her sublime
international touring band: Céline Greb aka Lin Lin
(cello, vocals); Sarah White (mandolin, guitar,
vocals); and Dave Baird (bass). The group’s
gorgeously thrilling hybrid of Canadiana, Celtic,
jazz, roots, folk, soul and original rock bridges
vital originals with fresh interpretations of
classics by such artists as Leonard Cohen and Annie
Lennox.
The freshness and range of musical ideas and
expression heard in each performance attests to the
sagacity of Allan Showalter, eminence grise of “Cohencentric:
Leonard Cohen Considered” blog, in his
observation: “Once you've heard one Allison Crowe
song, You've heard one Allison Crowe song.”
Here's a traditional song, "Tarry Trousers",
out of TNL's "Newfoundland Vinyl"
hit show, with Allison, Sarah and Céline
harmonizing Catch four songs from Allison Crowe and
Band, (plus a preceding full set by Matej Krajnc &
Sužnji Sendvičev), on the RK Easter show – “OKROG
OSMIH z MEFOM - MATEJ KRAJNC in SUŽNJI SENDVIČEV
ter ALLISON CROWE & BAND” @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BatEQS_t7lU : “V
Studiu Hendrix Radia KOPER je Drago Mislej - MEF v
njegovi nedeljski oddaji, 27. marca 2016, gostil
Mateja KRAJNCA in Sužnje Sendvičev ter kanadsko
pevko Allison CROWE z njeno skupino.” Hvala!!
