Lights, Camera, Christmas

There are some bright lights shining for Allison Crowe - and, not just on the Christmas tree. Don Bradshaw of NTV, Canada's Superstation, caught up with the amazing musician as she enjoyed a little piano-time outside Santa's workshop, in the North Pole (aka the Corner Brook Arts and Culture Centre).

Now Allison's concert year has wrapped, come join her, along with friends and neighbours, for World Premiere television screenings of Peter Buckle's charming documentary film, "A Corner Brook Tidings" (for broadcast times/dates - click here). Fun for all ages, share in the warmth and meaning of Christmas, and all things we celebrate, in our hearts, in this season, and year-round.

To enjoy Allison's chat with Don Bradshaw of NTV - click here - http://ntv.ca/corner-brook-artist-sings-for-hollywood

"A Corner Brook Tidings" World Film Premiere

Peter Buckle's documentary, "A Corner Brook Tidings" - a film featuring Allison Crowe and you, has its World Premiere this weekend. There's been a sighting of a man on a sleigh, pulled by what appear to be reindeer, or, maybe daschunds... on a snowy rooftop - just before this trailer appeared down the online chimney...

World Premiere of the Peter Buckle-directed documentary film ~ "A Corner Brook Tidings"

“A Corner Brook Tidings”

World Film Premiere

It’s coming on “Tidings” – and that means the voice of Allison Crowe rings out traditional favourites, Christmas carols such as “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”, “In the Bleak Midwinter”, and “The First Noel”, alongside the modern canon of Joni Mitchell, Patty Griffin, Lennon & McCartney and original song selections including the elegiac “Arthur”, and the epic, foot-stomping, “Disease”.

Allison’s just wrapped up her second engagement of this year with Canada’s amazing Royal Winnipeg Ballet – performing songs of Leonard Cohen. With the love experienced on the dance stage, as well as recent European concert dates and this Summer’s Gros Morne Theatre Festival hit, “Newfoundland Vinyl”, still touching souls – it’s time to rally a repertoire that decks us all in comfort and joy whatever life’s circumstances. On Friday, December 14 in the ACC Theatre is this year’s live “Tidings” concert.

Saturday, December 15, the lights go down in the ACC Lobby for 7 pm and 9 pm screenings of the Peter Buckle-directed documentary ~ "A Corner Brook Tidings" – “a film featuring Allison Crowe and you”. (A live album, “Tidings Concert”, has just been released on iTunes + as a sister project. http://allisoncrowe.com/news.html )

These audio and video works are created with gracious assistance of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council – and kind shepherding by Katrina Rice, NLAC Program Officer. Assistance for the World Premiere showings is provided by the College of the North Atlantic in Corner Brook and the CNA’s Recording Arts Program, Bay St. George Campus, Stephenville.

Here’s a preview from Film Director and Producer Peter Buckle, (CNA Instructor - Film & Video Production):

" ‘A Corner Brook Tidings’ is a fusion of live musical performances, stories and spectacular home-grown scenes woven through a wondrous Christmas theme.

This documentary will take you on a very special journey around the exceptionally beautiful City of Corner Brook and juxtaposed with local family Christmas stories and, of course, thrilling and heart-warming music from the incomparably talented Allison Crowe.

Christmas is a time for friends, family and tradition. This documentary film is sure to bring you all the true Christmas sprit in a tightly wrapped package.”

When: Saturday, December 15th, 2012
Two Screenings: 7pm and 9pm
Where: Arts and Culture Centre – Lobby - CB ACC, 11 University Drive, Corner Brook, NL A2H 6C3
Admission: Free - in the spirit of the season!
Premiere Film Passes available @:
Brewed West - 35 West Street - (709) 634-7100 ext. 2;
Brewed on Bernard - 93 Mt. Bernard Avenue, CB - (709) 634-7100 ext. 3;
Newfound Sushi - 117 Broadway, CB - (709) 634-6666; and
SkiWorld - George's Mountain Village, Steady Brook - (709) 639-8168

For more Info call Peter Buckle @ 709-639-4576 or email @ buckle_peter@yahoo.ca

http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/tidings-concert

Music for the season and all time

BBC's Hallelujah doc examines Leonard Cohen's unique mix of spirit and flesh

In late 2003, Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" was mostly known as a male-sung ballad. Allison Crowe unleashed a vitally different interpretation on "Tidings" - her '03 EP that proved so popular it's re-released the next year as a full-length CD.

Five years later, pretty much to the day, BBC Radio 2 in the UK broadcast an one-hour documentary on the song, which, by this time, was being covered almost continually. Host of "The Fourth, the Fifth, the Minor Fall" is Guy Garvey of the band Elbow.

The BBC crew caught up with Allison Crowe at View Two Gallery in Liverpool, England - where she was visiting as a guest for Beatles Week. The space was empty as an echo chamber, and special thanks go to producer Richard McIlroy who captured the audio in the moment - shared with his rapt two year-old.

Cohen's "Hallelujah" has now been covered more than 200 times, and each performer, and audience, finds their own meaning and inspiration. For visceral Allison Crowe, as she explains in this interview excerpt from the full documentary, it's about body and soul.



Also heard in this segment, chatting with Guy Garvey, are singer Kathryn Williams, The Bishop of Croydon - Nicholas Baines, and Cohen-collector and scholar Jim Devlin.

The BBC prefaced its broadcast on All Saint's Day, November 1, 2008:

"Warning: Listening to this sampling of artists, critics, and other commentators talk about their perspectives on Hallelujah may put ones preconceived notions about the song at risk."