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Allison Crowe and Band: Introducing / Heirs+Grievances - Saturday, October 29 @ Charlie White Theatre, MWC


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#1 Adrian22

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Posted 25 September 2016 - 12:31 AM

Charlie White Theatre, Mary Winspear Centre, 2243 Beacon Avenue, Sidney V8L 1W9 - Saturday, October 29, 2016 @ 7:30 pm

 

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l - r: Sarah White (mandolin, guitar, vocals); Allison Crowe (vocals, piano, guitar, fiddle & bodhran); Lin (cello, vocals); and Dave Baird (bass)

 

"No matter where Allison Crowe is in this world, that voice, that conviction, it crosses all borders. She's one of those rare artists that fits into any culture, any community because she is who she is - an incredible talent," observes Jeff Pitcher, Artistic Director of Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador.

 

And so it is that Nanaimo-born Crowe, home in Corner Brook, NL, on Canada’s Atlantic coast for o’er a decade, finds her thrilling hybrid of Canadiana, Celtic, jazz, roots, folk, soul and rock loved deeply from the Hollywood Hills and Scottish Highlands to countries of Maritime and Mainland Southeast Asia and beyond. Since this Spring her unique repertoire, more than 159 original song recordings, plays in markets and street galleries throughout the republic of Portugal, land of Fado music. In recent years Crowe’s toured with Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, crowned a festival stage with the Master of the Queen’s Music, and serenaded Clark Kent undercover in a Superman blockbuster.

 

Passionate universality is also an hallmark of her stellar band: Allison Crowe on lead vocals, piano, guitar, fiddle & bodhran; Lin, cellist and vocalist, hailing from Germany’s Black Forest; Sarah White, mandolinist, guitarist and singer nurtured by Newfoundland & Nova Scotia; alongside Dave Baird, bassist, hatched on Vancouver Island.

 

The quartet seamlessly bridges Crowe’s vital originals with fresh takes on traditional tunes spanning centuries as well as modern classics by Leonard Cohen, Annie Lennox, Gary O’Driscoll. The band’s debut double-album, “Introducing / Heirs+Grievances”, the 20th release from Rubenesque Records, is out now. Devon, UK-based music/arts writer Mike Ferguson, (posting in “Some Diurnal Aural Awe”), anticipates you’ll be “royally entertained” by a show “full of the joy and fun that comes across on this cd's live offering”.

 

You All Haunt Me - Allison Crowe and Band - Heirs + Grievances from Allison Crowe on Vimeo.

 

"Heirs + Grievances is a gorgeous, full circle showcase of Allison’s growth as a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her extraordinary voice is unrestrained and beautifully accompanied by her bandmates,” notes West Virginia-founded culture blog Muruch.

http://music.allisoncrowe.com   +   http://allisoncrowe.com/bio.html

 

TICKETS: $29.00 General | $24.00 Students & Seniors (incl. all service charges)

Charlie White Theatre - Mary Winspear Centre Box Office, 2243 Beacon Avenue, Sidney V8L 1W9  250-656-0275  MWC Box Office - click here

Contact: Adrian du Plessis, Mgr., Rubenesque Records Ltd. 1-250-537-1286 + management@allisoncrowe.com

 

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#2 Adrian22

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Posted 04 October 2016 - 02:16 AM

Gem of a music-lover’s blog, “Cohencentric: Leonard Cohen Considered”, reveals facets of artistry on display in a rare bootleg of Allison Crowe and Band.http://cohencentric....ro-live-bootleg The recording, just unearthed from an European audio-trove, features the quartet performing a song sparkling in the diamantine prose of Allan Showalter, Cohencentric’s master wordsmith:

 

“ ‘Arthur’ is elegantly, efficiently lapidarian, interweaving deeply personal questions of devotion and loyalty, Arthurian legend, intense romantic longing, and, of course, sex. It is, in a word (albeit a conveniently coined term) – Cohenesque. The video for ‘Arthur’ is also a visual treat, featuring sweet, awkward, altogether fetching clips from home movies, shot in Johannesburg and the Natal Coast of South Africa, of the honeymoon of two young people of my own parents’ generation.”
 

Join the fun with Allison Crowe and Band on their "Introducing / Heirs+Grievances" tour coming to the Charlie White Theatre - Saturday, October 29, 2016: https://www.facebook...787751414773400



#3 Adrian22

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Posted 16 October 2016 - 09:43 PM

“I have not heard of anyone who sings with the vulnerability or childhood innocence and the piercing intensity of Edith Piaf the way she does, well at least not in this lifetime,” says writer/editor Baxter Labatos, founder of “The Celtic Music Fan”, in a review of Allison Crowe and Band’s debut. “It is quite amazing how she can do so many things with her voice. She’s a woman with a guitar who belts out like Aretha Franklin, a bodhran player with soul in her heart and, yes, a pianist with the grace of a classical performer.”

 

Of “Introducing / Heirs+Grievances”, the double-disc now coming to North American audiences in concert, the percipient international blogger sums up: “The powerful voice and instrumental prowess will delight fans and new converts of Allison Crowe’s artistic genius.”

 

Enjoy the full review – and the music @ https://celticmusicf...n-crowe-band-cd

 

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#4 MarkoJ

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Posted 17 October 2016 - 07:21 PM

Just Youtube "Allison Crowe and Band," solid band!


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#5 Adrian22

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Posted 25 October 2016 - 12:17 PM

Thanks, Marko, for your kind words of appreciation! :)

 

The "Heirs+Grievances" tour launched this past weekend in Tofino - and it was wonderful night and full-house. Now Allison and band ready for concerts in the mid-island and south island - coming, of course, to the Victoria region this Saturday night for the show at the Mary Winspear Centre's Charlie White Theatre: http://marywinspear....heirsgrievances



 



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