“My favorite Irish song, beautifully covered for you
today: Black Velvet Band ~ Allison Crowe,” declares
Brian Ibbott, Mayor of Coverville on this - St.
Patrick’s - Day.
(Coverville, geographically situated in Colorado,
USA can be found online @ http://coverville.com )
“
Black Velvet Band” is a lively song popularly
recorded on both sides of the Atlantic. This
recording is from Allison Crowe's "
Newfoundland
Vinyl" LP, her 11th album release on Rubenesque
Records:
Veteran folk music afficionado/reviewer,
Muruch,
based in West Virginia, in posting a review of this
new album to the "
No Depression" blog remarks on a
feature in Allison's music that's always present -
whether it's rock, gospel, jazz, grunge, classical,
blues, folk, soul or other genres she's making:
"What a voice, what a voice, what a voice!"
Of this song,
Muruch notes: " '
The Black Velvet
Band' " is a traditional Irish ballad about a man's
chance encounter with a girl, which leads to his
arrest and transport as a prisoner to Australia.
The Dubliners may have recorded one of the more
famous renditions of the song, but Allison's is the
most stunning version I've heard and just may
become the definitive version (as her cover of
'
Hallelujah' -
http://music.allisoncrowe.com/track/hallelujah -
has) over time."
As the album title suggests, it's a song collection
inspired by, and arising from, Allison Crowe's
ongoing role as Musical Director of the hit stage
show, "Newfoundland Vinyl" - presented at Canada's
Gros Morne Theatre Festival each Summer since 2012.
This perennial GMTF favourite’s conceived by
TNL’s
Artistic Director Jeff Pitcher.
Labels: Allison Crowe, Belfast, Black Velvet Band, Brian Ibbott, Canada, Coverville, Dublin, Eire, Irish, Labrador, Muruch, music, Newfoundland, St. Patrick's Day, traditional
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