Week 2 of “Allison Crowe April” on CHMR 93.5FM – and DJ Jason Cantwell and alter ego Mark Jabroni remain safely outside the station, keeping health #1 on all our playlists.
Saluting Jason & Mark’s and the line-up of Friday shows – “The Friday Morning Markout”, “Ring Rust” and “Uberswank” – we celebrate this Good Friday with a favourite tune of theirs, from Allison Crowe – live-in-concert – “Disease”:
The spirit of Edith Piaf, “The Little Sparrow”, soars. Allison Crowe
with Céline Sawchuk are the wind beneath the wings of “La Vie en Rose”,
composed by Piaf (Edith Giovanna Gassion) & Louiguy (Louis
Guglielmi):
Canada's amazing Allison Crowe (vocals, piano & guitar), Vancouver
Island-born, Newfoundland-nested singer-songwriter, pairs with exquisite
cellist/vocalist Céline Sawchuk, born in Germany's Black Forest and now
home on Salt Spring Island, BC to bring “Tidings” – music for the
season & all-time.
"A Time for Tidings", cabaret-style live
from the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, stirs together traditional
Christmas and holiday evergreens with year-round musical treats from
English, French and German repertoire. It's an organic blend of rock,
jazz, folk, roots and soul to reflect and refresh all our emotions.
Uniting a range of rich cultural traditions, Allison Crowe with Céline Sawchuk deliver real wonderment, solace and joy.
"Allison Crowe's voice is as much a manifestation of Christmas spirit
today as Bing Crosby's was in 1942. It's as warm as an open fire; as
gorgeous as snow-frosted evergreens; as tender as that hug you give your
mother on Christmas day" – The Pique
"Be prepared to be amazed" – ChristmasReviews
Music recorded and engineered by Leif Henderson at "The Cultch". Thanks, as well, to Audio Archivist John MacMillan.
Album Art: Alick Tsui Photography + Mind Palace Design
Tochter Zion + Stille Nacht (Silent Night): A Time for Tidings
Celebrating this season with an Euro single – “Tochter Zion / Stille
Nacht (Silent Night)” – Allison Crowe with Céline Sawchuk and a pair of
traditional songs this Christmastime.
Canada's amazing Allison Crowe (vocals, piano & guitar), Vancouver Island-born, Newfoundland-nested singer-songwriter, pairs with exquisite cellist/vocalist Céline Sawchuk, born in Germany's Black Forest and now home on Salt Spring Island, BC to bring “Tidings” – music for the season & all-time.
"A Time for Tidings", cabaret-style live from the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, stirs together traditional Christmas and holiday evergreens with year-round musical treats from English, French and German repertoire. It's an organic blend of rock, jazz, folk, roots and soul to reflect and refresh all our emotions.
Uniting a range of rich cultural traditions, Allison Crowe with Céline Sawchuk deliver real wonderment, solace and joy.
"Allison Crowe's voice is as much a manifestation of Christmas spirit today as Bing Crosby's was in 1942. It's as warm as an open fire; as gorgeous as snow-frosted evergreens; as tender as that hug you give your mother on Christmas day" – The Pique
"Be prepared to be amazed" – ChristmasReviews
Music recorded and engineered by Leif Henderson at "The Cultch". Thanks, as well, to Audio Archivist John MacMillan.
Album Art: Alick Tsui Photography + Mind Palace Design
A Time for Tidings: Allison Crowe w. Celine Sawchuk
Canada's amazing Allison Crowe (vocals, piano &
guitar), Vancouver Island-born,
Newfoundland-nested singer-songwriter, pairs
with exquisite cellist/vocalist Celine Sawchuk,
born in Germany's Black Forest and now home on
Salt Spring Island, BC to bring “Tidings”
– music for the season & all-time.
"A
Time for Tidings", cabaret-style live
from the Vancouver East Cultural Centre,
stirs together traditional Christmas and
holiday evergreens with year-round musical
treats from English, French and German
repertoire. It's an organic blend of rock,
jazz, folk, roots and soul to reflect and
refresh all our emotions.
Uniting a range of rich cultural traditions,
Allison Crowe with Céline Sawchuk deliver real
wonderment, solace and joy.
"Allison Crowe's voice is as much a
manifestation of Christmas spirit today as Bing
Crosby's was in 1942. It's as warm as an open
fire; as gorgeous as snow-frosted evergreens;
as tender as that hug you give your mother on
Christmas day" – The Pique
"Be prepared to be amazed" –
ChristmasReviews
Music recorded and engineered by Leif Henderson
at "The Cultch". Thanks, as well, to
Audio Archivist John MacMillan.
Album Art: Alick Tsui Photography +
Mind Palace Design
Traditional Christmas carols "Tochter
Zion" and "Stille
Nacht (Silent Night)" warm a Winter's
day-or-night. Allison Crowe, Canada’s
bi-coastal musical marvel, with Céline Sawchuk,
vocalist/cellist from Germany’s Black Forest,
bring us “Tidings” – European-style.
Cause why not release a new album on
your own birthday?
Hahaha #newmusic#newfoundland#vinyl
The lovely isle of Newfoundland, off
Canada’s Atlantic coast, is inspiration for
this collection – the newest in the “Vinyl”
series from Corner Brook, NL musician
Allison Crowe.
Allison’s in harbour with a boatful of
tunes reveling in, and revealing, the
region’s rich culture and history –
stirring music that nourishes heart and
soul.
The album opens with “Mice March” and
spins to a replay with “Russian Dance”,
both selections
from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” – freshly
arranged and performed “trad” style for
Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador’s “Ed &
Ed’s Newfoundland Christmas Concert”. And
between these tracks is a bounty of
adventuresome musical ideas – embracing
songs of land and sea.
Traditional music, and modern favourites –
funny, poignant, earthy and ethereal – all
part of the “Newfoundland Vinyl” stage-show
lovingly curated and directed by Allison
Crowe each Summer at TNL’s Gros Morne
Theatre Festival.
The album cover photograph by Allison shows
us what she sees at home making music. And
the songs themselves let us feel it all, as
well. Joys and hardships be tugging on the
heart-line first cast by Simani, and true
as ever: “You might think she’s rugged and
cold, but she’s home, sweet, home to me.”
Allison Crowe: all vocals, instruments,
engineering and production.
“Whether I’m Wrong”, the first song performance video from
Allison Crowe to be posted online – more than a decade ago – is now hosted here
in a higher-fi version:
In Spring/Summer 2003, Allison Crowe was residing in an apartment in New
York City’s Chelsea
neighbourhood. Whether or not the sun poured in like butterscotch it was a
sticky time. This song was born then. Today, naturally, it’s just as vital our
voices be heard.
Captured live-in-the-studio by visionary director Alex Postowoi and crew at
Turtle Recording, White Rock, Canada.
Audio engineer - Larry "Turtle" Anschell; Film Editor - Shirley Anne
Claydon; Cameras - Karen Duthie & Randy Rotheisler.
Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul”, exits this passing show – and we have the music.
“It’s funny about music… music is like… music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel… through music… Whew… you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment,” noted Nina Simone, the “High Priestess of Soul”.
Celebrating, communicating, commemorating, through music. Paying tribute, the way she does, here’s Allison Crowe with “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)”, the Ronnie Shannon-composed song that’s the breakout hit for Aretha in 1967.
Happy Allison Crowe August! All this month,
CHMR
93.5 FM DJs Fanboy Mark Jabroni and Reverend Jason
Cantwell share the musical joys and explorations of
Allison Crowe. Allison’s solo and band recordings
will be featured throughout August on "The Friday
Morning Markout". Tune in from anywhere on this
planet, or from a pastoral lake on Mars, dial-in
https://chmrfm.weebly.com – 8am to 10 am
Newfoundland Time {6:30am EST}.
It’s ok to shoot the moon – and that happens all
this month, musically, on CHMR celebrating “Allison
Crowe August”. Welcome aboard a cultural
rocket-ship @
https://www.facebook.com/events/1137581292972720
This is what I recorded the
other day - NIN’s “Hurt” (by Trent Reznor, on “The Downward Spiral”)
- recently requested and also requested by a friend 20 years ago, - who have
birthdays 2 days apart it appears - so, I figured it was about time - happy
birthday, Josh, and Kristen ❤️
Sidebar: when I think of people
I’d love to record with one day - Trent
always is in my brain. Perfect Drug is my favourite music video. Pretty Hate Machine
is one of the albums that helped me through teenagehood (Cause I am a huge Tori
Amos fan if that wasn’t obvious hahaha) . #music #nineinchnails #trent_reznor
#recordings #vero #toriamos
“A Case of You”, composed
by Joni Mitchell about her times with Leonard Cohen, as first performed by
Allison Crowe on CBC Radio’s “Sounds Like Canada” with host Shelagh Rogers –
cover photo by Billie Woods captured on PenderIsland. A combo Canadian as a plate of poutine in the snow.
Counting the human species alone there’s more than 7.6 billion Hallelujahs,
really. When you start to consider all living creatures, the potential is
infinite.
Here’s one take. Allison Crowe, live at the LSPU Hall in St
John’s, Newfoundland with
Leonard Cohen’s song. The rest of the band’s gone below to change into
accordionist+ Keelan’s clothes… leaving Allison and the folks in the concert
hall to carry harmonies in the chorus. It’s just one word:
Musicians Allison Crowe (vocals, piano, guitar,
fiddle, bodhran), Céline Sawchuk (cello, vocals), Sarah White (mandolin,
guitar, vocals), Dave Baird (bass, vocals) & Keelan Purchase (accordion,
12-string guitar, bodhran, harmonica, vocals) banded together on the lovely
isle of Newfoundland for sessions and shows.
For a flock of creators who live, literally, all over the map it’s a rare
chance to slow the world a bit. “We had time to experiment, and think more
about the larger picture musically,” says bassist & birder Dave. “It’s only
the beginning. It’s just the first we’ve had opportunity to work the music out
without much time restraint. It was fun, relaxed, and productive.”
Melding into one sound and performance experience the rawest of folk roots
and the richest of arena rock – that barely begins to describe the originality
and freshness of the quintet’s music and personality.
Debuting at Corner Brook, NL’s
Rotary Arts Centre, RAC Theatre Co-ordinator Brad Randell observes, “The
performance was absolutely magical.”
Rolling across the rock, captured fresh at the LSPU (Longshoremen's
Protective Union) Hall in St. John's,
NL, Canada –
it’s music that’s food for the soul and fun for all.
Fortune’s present audio-wise, and Allison’s SD (memory) card is filled with
tracks to be mined and enjoyed. Sláinte!
"Welcome to Us 2", the concert’s second act, presents the
brilliant bi-coastal band's more piano-centric tunes – and encore – live: http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/welcome-to-us-2http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/welcome-to-us-2
“Arthur” explores love and memory – and our fragile hold on each. From Act 2 of Allison Crowe and Band’s “Welcome to Us”:
Musicians
Allison Crowe (vocals, piano, guitar, fiddle, bodhran), Céline Sawchuk
(cello, vocals), Sarah White (mandolin, guitar, vocals), Dave Baird
(bass, vocals) & Keelan Purchase (accordion, 12-string guitar,
bodhran, harmonica, vocals) banded together on the lovely isle of
Newfoundland for sessions and shows.
For a flock of creators who
live, literally, all over the map it’s a rare chance to slow the world a
bit. “We had time to experiment, and think more about the larger
picture musically,” says bassist & birder Dave. “It’s only the
beginning. It’s just the first we’ve had opportunity to work the music
out without much time restraint. It was fun, relaxed, and productive.”
Melding
into one sound and performance experience the rawest of folk roots and
the richest of arena rock – that barely begins to describe the
originality and freshness of the quintet’s music and personality.
Debuting at Corner Brook, NL’s Rotary Arts Centre, RAC Theatre Co-ordinator Brad Randell observes, “The performance was absolutely magical.”
Rolling across the rock, captured fresh at the LSPU (Longshoremen’s Protective Union) Hall in St. John’s, NL, Canada – it’s music that’s food for the soul and fun for all.
Fortune’s present audio-wise, and Allison’s SD (memory) card is filled with tracks to be mined and enjoyed. Sláinte!
Here is another one of my originals - Secrets: A song I wrote when I had a lot of stuff I wanted to talk about but didn’t know how, so I wrote this instead - and it’s definitely a longer song. These things aren’t unrelated. (Also FYI once I get set up with more gear one day I won’t have to sing the loud parts away haha but - for now - I’m loud and I apologize! ) (which is very Canadian of me) #singer #newfoundland #songwriter #piano #music #dachshund
Skeletons and Spirits – Allison Crowe and Band W2U2
Allison Crowe (piano vocals) and bandmates
Céline Sawchuk (cello, vocals), Sarah White
(mandolin, vocals), Dave Baird (bass) & Keelan
Purchase (harmonica) bring forth “Skeletons and
Spirits” – from Allison Crowe and Band’s fresh
release, “Welcome to Us 2”.
Following a delightful visit with Allison and
Linkers sharing fun with “Arthur” at home
–
https://vimeo.com/271562940
– from a dasching duo we embrace the collective joy
and genius of a quintet.
Banding together on the lovely isle of
Newfoundland for sessions and shows – for a flock of
creators who live, literally, all over the map it’s
a rare chance to slow the world a bit. “We had time
to experiment, and think more about the larger
picture musically,” says bassist & birder Dave.
“It’s only the beginning. It’s just the first we’ve
had opportunity to work the music out without much
time restraint. It was fun, relaxed, and
productive.”
Melding into one sound and performance
experience the rawest of folk roots and the richest
of arena rock – that barely begins to describe the
originality and freshness of the quintet’s music
and personality.
Debuting at Corner Brook, NL’s Rotary Arts
Centre, RAC Theatre Co-ordinator Brad
Randell observes, “The performance was absolutely
magical.”
Rolling across the rock, captured fresh at the
LSPU (Longshoremen's Protective Union) Hall
in St. John's, NL, Canada – it’s music that’s
food for the soul and fun for all.
Fortune’s present audio-wise, and Allison’s SD
(memory) card is filled with tracks to be mined and
enjoyed. Sláinte!
This is Arthur - a song I wrote several years ago - as performed by myself and Linkers on squeaker. (This is silly but a special vid to me because he’s my best bud and also throwing the toy while playing music is my daily reality, lol) #music #piano #singersongwriter #singer #dachshund #dog
NB for more such fun, you can enjoy Allison & band, Linkers+ vids on
Alley's Vero, Vimeo, Twitter and other social sites – links to come!
Visual accompaniment is from the cinema masterpiece “Ménilmontant”. (The full suite – I Might / Back to Black / Shifts of Light / Tones in Transition / I Am the Air / Lisa's Song – is @ https://vimeo.com/261671693 )
Musicians Allison Crowe (vocals, piano, guitar, fiddle, bodhran), Céline Sawchuk (cello, vocals), Sarah White (mandolin, guitar, vocals), Dave Baird (bass, vocals) & Keelan Purchase (accordion, 12-string guitar, bodhran, harmonica, vocals) banded together on the lovely isle of Newfoundland for sessions and shows.
For a flock of creators who live, literally, all over the map it’s a rare chance to slow the world a bit. “We had time to experiment, and think more about the larger picture musically,” says bassist & birder Dave. “It’s only the beginning. It’s just the first we’ve had opportunity to work the music out without much time restraint. It was fun, relaxed, and productive.”
Melding into one sound and performance experience the rawest of folk roots and the richest of arena rock – that barely begins to describe the originality and freshness of the quintet’s music and personality.
Debuting at Corner Brook, NL’s Rotary Arts Centre, RAC Theatre Co-ordinator Brad Randell observes, “The performance was absolutely magical.”
Rolling across the rock, captured fresh at the LSPU (Longshoremen's Protective Union) Hall in St. John's, NL, Canada – it’s music that’s food for the soul and fun for all.
Fortune’s present audio-wise, and Allison’s SD (memory) card is filled with tracks to be mined and enjoyed. Sláinte!
"Welcome to Us 1", the concert’s first act, presents the brilliant bi-coastal band's more guitar-and-fiddle-centric tunes – live: http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/welcome-to-us-1http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/welcome-to-us-1
"Welcome to Us 2", the concert’s second act, features the group's more piano-centric tunes – and encore – live: http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/welcome-to-us-2http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/welcome-to-us-2
"Welcome to Us Banter Bits" includes any chat, laughter, applause not found on the "Welcome to Us" albums on iTunes et al. A free download to complement the concert music: http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/welcome-to-us-banter-bitshttp://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/welcome-to-us-banter-bits
Hey guys! So for me this is rehearsal season - plays and concerts and etc - so this is a little glimpse in to how I
practice at home - this is one of my favourite songs by SIA called Bird Set
Free! Thanks for listening ❤️ Allison Crowe Rehearsal - Bird Set Free from Allison Crowe on Vimeo.
We’re
all in this together. “I Am the Air”, the next breath in the song suite
from Allison Crowe and Band – Act 2 of “Welcome to Us”.
Visual accompaniment is from the cinema masterpiece “Ménilmontant”.
(The full suite – I Might / Back to Black / Shifts of Light / Tones in
Transition / I Am the Air / Lisa's Song – is @ https://vimeo.com/261671693 )
Musicians Allison Crowe (vocals, piano, guitar, fiddle, bodhran),
Céline Sawchuk (cello, vocals), Sarah White (mandolin, guitar, vocals),
Dave Baird (bass, vocals) & Keelan Purchase (accordion, 12-string
guitar, bodhran, harmonica, vocals) banded together on the lovely isle
of Newfoundland for sessions and shows.
For a flock of creators who live, literally, all over the map it’s a
rare chance to slow the world a bit. “We had time to experiment, and
think more about the larger picture musically,” says bassist &
birder Dave. “It’s only the beginning. It’s just the first we’ve had
opportunity to work the music out without much time restraint. It was
fun, relaxed, and productive.”
Melding into one sound and performance experience the rawest of folk
roots and the richest of arena rock – that barely begins to describe the
originality and freshness of the quintet’s music and personality.
Debuting at Corner Brook, NL’s Rotary Arts Centre, RAC Theatre
Co-ordinator Brad Randell observes, “The performance was absolutely
magical.”
Rolling across the rock, captured fresh at the LSPU (Longshoremen's
Protective Union) Hall in St. John's, NL, Canada – it’s music that’s
food for the soul and fun for all.
Fortune’s present audio-wise, and Allison’s SD (memory) card is filled with tracks to be mined and enjoyed. Sláinte!
Cellist/vocalist Céline Sawchuk comes from the
mythic Black Forest of Germany. Out of the lush
thickets of the Schwarzwald to the cool streets of
Berlin, Céline strives to bring “a little bit of my
home” to the world music stage. Singing “I
Might” – an atmospheric song from the duo of
Oliver Koletzki & Fran (Franziska Lauter) – she’s
joined here by Allison Crowe on piano and Dave
Baird on bass.
This launches a suite of songs – and Act 2 of “Welcome
to Us”. Visual accompaniment is from the
cinema masterpiece “Ménilmontant”. (The
full suite – I Might / Back to Black / Shifts
of Light / Tones in Transition / I Am the Air /
Lisa's Song – is
@ https://vimeo.com/261671693 )
#singer #newfoundland #songwriter #piano #music #dachshund 
