Pillars + Six More Songs - Allison Crowe and Band

"Pillars" (album) + "Six More Songs" (EP), the newest music from Allison Crowe, Sarah White, Dave Baird, & Keelan Purchase, is out today on Bandcamp, Apple/iTunes and every digital platform in the known universe (plus some as-yet-to--be-known).

On Spotify the two sister sets are joined, as nature intended, in a playlist. Journey beyond time and space with Allison Crowe and Band via these recordings and more than 20 other albums, 18 singles/EPs, and numerous playlists from previous astral weeks: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6rECOBK9t9vTbJRRK3Syuj

Allison Crowe April – Week 2

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”:

Pillars + Six More Songs: Coming Spring 2020 from Allison Crowe + Band

“Pillars” + “Six More Songs” coming this Spring 2020 from Allison Crowe and Band: Allison Crowe (vocals, piano, cello, guitar, fiddle, Seaboard and more); Sarah White (mandolin, bouzouki, vocals+); Dave Baird (bass); & Keelan Purchase (accordion, guitar, harmonica, vocals). 

Allison Crowe: Composer & Co-Producer

Adam Thistle: Recording/Mixing Engineer & Co-Producer 

Billie Woods Photography + Mind Palace Design 

Visit our new website @ https://allisoncroweband.com 

Sounds of things to come... Allison Crowe + Band

So - we recorded a total of 20 tracks in 4 days - LOTS of music to come - super excited about it all lots of new songs, a few from the early 2000s reworked , some that are part of the musical I’m working on... so proud of my band. Stay tuned!

 #music #bands #newfoundland

Allison Crowe, Sarah White, Keelan Purchase... and, to be joined before long by Dave Baird, have begun to make the band's newest recording.

 Here's a listen to the final sounds of these first sessions...

The Merry Blacksmith, downhome music captured by Adam Thistle in lovely Corner Brook, NL, Canada.

Rockin' and Rollin'

Allison Crowe, Sarah White & Keelan Purchase look forward to sharing music and fun - life's magic with you.

This night's concert is SOLD OUT! Thank you, everyone :) Going Home Tonight

But, still

“But, still”. Allison Crowe with Link – a work in progress. 

"Soulful. Alive. Joyous. Grievous. Real, true, music is what I want to make," says Allison. That is all. 

https://allisoncrowe.bandcamp.com/

No Change in Me

Ron Hynes and Murray McLauchlan’s classic “No Change in Me” is another song in the key of life heard on Allison Crowe’s new album, “Newfoundland Vinyl IV”:

Cultural treasure-chest GEST Songs of NFLD shares lyrics, ("This getting nowhere is getting to me, Wondering where you can go to be all you can be..."), and the original recording plus variant @ http://gestsongs.com/07/nochange.htm  And you'll find more from Allison on GEST, as well @ http://gestsongs.com/acrowe.htm

Newfoundland Vinyl IV 

https://allisoncrowe.bandcamp.com/album/newfoundland-vinyl-iv-2

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 closes 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 Buddy Wasisname, and true as ever: “You might think she’s rugged and cold, but she’s home, sweet, home to me.”

Credits:

Allison Crowe: all vocals, instruments, engineering and production.
Album cover photo: Allison Crowe.
Graphics: Mind Palace Design.

Sláinte!

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

Merry Christmas! Frohe Weihnachten! Joyeux Noel! Buon Natale!

           Best o' the season to you and yours!!

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.

 

Aretha and the Music

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.

"Once" Upon an Opening Night

Here’s me as Eamon! Opening night tonight! @theatre_stjohns

#oncethemusical #musicaltheatre #newfoundland 

Photo Credit: Rich Blenkinsopp*

*Allison Crowe as Eamon in Theatre St. John's production of "Once"

Set Design: Anna Treusch
Lighting Design: Noah Feaver
Costume Design: Keith Robert
Direction: Keith Pike

Allison Crowe August

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 

Hurt

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

Happy Independence Day :)

Allison Crowe, live, with a tune and message from the great American topical songwriter Phil Ochs” “When I’m Gone”.

Happy Independence Day, everyone, and a special shout-out to all our dear friends in the USA who are celebrating this July 4th weekend.

Here’s to joy and peace :)

Photos by the wonderful Billie Woods.

Happy Canada Day!

“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 Pender Island. A combo Canadian as a plate of poutine in the snow.

Happy, peaceful, July 1^st!

Arthur – Allison Crowe and Band W2U2

“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!

“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-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-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-bits

Hearty thanks to Alick Tsui Photography and Mind Palace Design for the visuals.

Secrets – Allison Crowe and Linkers

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!

"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-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-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-bit

Hearty thanks to Alick Tsui Photography and Mind Palace Design for the visual elements.

Arthur – Allison Crowe and Linkers

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!

What About You – Allison Crowe and Band W2U2

Empathy.

"What About You".

Rehearsal – Bird Set Free

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.