Thrilling folk/roots, classic rock/pop, traditional NL tunes, original wildness and more with Allison Crowe and Band:

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Allison Crowe (vocals, piano, cello, guitar, fiddle, Seaboard and more);

Sarah Melanie White (mandolin, bouzouki, vocals+);

Dave Baird (bass); &

Keelan Purchase (accordion, guitar, harmonica, vocals).

Allison Crowe: Composer & Co- ( Read more... )

For the love of music, starting today all hearts open at the new web-home of Allison Crowe and bandmates Sarah White, Keelan Purchase & Dave Baird: https://allisoncroweband.com

For 20 amazing years Allison’s original site, designed by Alix (Whitmire) May @ http://allisoncrowe.com, serves as entry point for a community, millions of people all over ( Read more... )

Kiss the joy as it flies with the release this month of two new albums of music in concert - “Welcome to Us” Acts 1 and 2 - from Allison Crowe and Band (on Rubenesque Records Ltd.).

Here, now, is a suite of songs opening W2U2. Film montage à “Ménilmontant” - a cinematic masterpiece from France, 1926:

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

“I Might” features Céline Sawchuk on ( Read more... )

There's a wonderland of new music coming this month from Allison Crowe and Band. Before it all hatches, today's bunny trail leads to an Easter egg from years past - "Circular Reasoning" through the looking glass.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Tatties, patates, kartoffel… whatever you call ’em - communicating in an universal language is the potato (even tho’ they speak to us only with thine eyes).

“Gerald Thomas’ Burnt Potato (Les Patates Brûlées à Gerald Thomas)” is composed by the late, great, fiddler, Émile Benoit, who’s born in Black Duck Brook, Dominion of Newfoundland. The title ( Read more... )

2018 will see the release of Allison Crowe’s “Fluttering”, an illuminating book of poetry/prose, and Allison and band will unite on one continent or another to advance the exciting sounds of “Rare Birds”, their next studio album.

First to hatch, though, is “Welcome to Us” - a sensational and fun album of music captured live at the LSPU ( ( Read more... )

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) recently banded together on the lovely isle of Newfoundland for sessions and shows.

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Allison Crowe with her first song and performance she posted online - "Whether I'm Wrong" -

“Heirs+Grievances”, already a glorious album of music from Allison Crowe and Band, is now an even fuller experience. Two song tracks are restored to the original release: a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel No.2” and a live-in-the-studio take of “Secrets (That Aren’t My Own)” - a signature of Crowe’s repertoire.

As concert versions of both ( Read more... )

“There is hope,” writes musician Allison Crowe. “That word keeps coming up. It makes me think that maybe it’s real. It is resilient. You can try to leave it out but it keeps putting itself back in place. You can try to deny it but it won’t stay buried.”

Crowe’s writing her first book, “Fluttering” about which she says: “There's a few paragraphs ( Read more... )