“Whether I’m Wrong”, Allison Crowe’s song for peace, first shared via national television:

The one-hour “Tidings” special’s presented by Producer Doug Slack and the New VI's team "Inside Pandora's Box" (CHUM's street-front studio in Victoria, B.C.).

Allison’s set includes “Whether I’m Wrong” - soon featured by the UNESCO-endorsed “New Songs ( 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:

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“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.

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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... )

Woke this morning to the sounds of ‘The Friday Morning Markout’ on CHMR Radio - with genial show-host FanBoy Mark Jabroni ringing in “week 2 of ‪#‎AllisonCroweAugust‬!”

Hearing the DJ spin almost the entire two-night concert set of Allison - “Live at Wood Hall” - on the air’s a welcome reminder of how great is this release: http://music. ( Read more... )

15 years ago to this hour, Allison Crowe, one of our truly great musical artists and live performers, in any genre, performed her first international concert with her own band. Allison’s rock-jazz+ trio comprised herself on vocals and keyboard (this was pre-guitar, fiddle and bodhran shows), Dave Baird on bass and Kevin Clevette on drums.

Allison’s ( Read more... )

Allan Showalter, always illuminating and entertaining concierge and much more at the Chelsea Hotel of culture blogs, “Cohencentric: Leonard Cohen Considered”, shares the keys to Allison Crowe’s “Wedding Song” video - its musical gallery hung with fotos by Billie Woods: http://cohencentric.com/2016/07/08/wedding-song-allison-crowes-small- ( Read more... )

The independent spirit fuels the music and operations of Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. It’s only natural that Allison Crowe, since embarking on her own course as an international touring and recording artist, looks to Ani as a model. Allison’s Rubenesque Records Ltd. has taken the road less traveled since 2001. From “Live at Wood Hall”, ( ( Read more... )

The magic’s in the music and the music’s in Allison Crowe - passionately delivered here through “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)”.

“Hello all the young lady did a jam up job on the song, Ronnie Shannon would have loved it,” says LaJay Alexander, fellow musician and good friend of the songwriter. Alexander notes that Shannon “is no longer ( Read more... )