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  Allison Crowe
Allison Crowe was born on November 16, 1981 in Nanaimo, B.C. Canada.
By 15, Crowe's musical reputation was spreading in her native Canada and she played regularly to audiences in coffee-houses and bars in Vancouver Island.
In 2002, Allison Crowe completed her first national tour as headliner, and a year later she launched her own label, Rubenesque Records, with the release of the EP 'Lisa’s Song + 6 Songs' - a collection of songs recorded live-off-the-floor.
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  Allison Crowe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Allison Crowe (born November 16, 1981) is a singer-songwriter and pianist from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
Crowe’s most mentioned characteristics are her remarkable live performance ability and her distinctive voice, the force of which has been compared to that of Mahalia Jackson.
Allison Crowe is also acclaimed for her interpretations of songs by a wide variety of composers, from Jerome Kern to Pearl Jam, including Lennon-McCartney and fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allison_Crowe   (684 words)

  
 purevolume™ | Allison Crowe
Allison Crowe's birthplace, Nanaimo, B.C., (known as the "Harbour City"), is found on Vancouver Island, in the naturally beautiful ocean and forest setting of Canada's Pacific Northwest.
Allison Crowe has shared a stage with popular jazzer, and fellow Nanaimo-ite, Diana Krall and had her version of a Beatles song placed on a tribute album alongside tracks by punk/DIY legends Sylvain Sylvain (of the New York Dolls) and the late Dee Dee Ramone.
Secrets, Tidings and Allison Crowes new, double-album, Live at Wood Hall, are available through Festival Distribution (Canada's home of jazz, blues, roots, folk, world music "and much much more"), her own website, and also through an international range of online retailers.
www.purevolume.com /allisoncrowe   (916 words)

  
 Allison Crowe - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Allison Crowe, descended from Irish and Manx stock, was born and raised in Nanaimo, B.C. ~ a harbo..
Allison Crowe, descended from Irish and Manx stock, was born and raised in Nanaimo, B.C. ~ a harbour city on Vancouver Island.
In her pre-teens, Allison Crowe heard Nina Simone (a genre-buster of another generation) and Ella Fitzgerald albums spinning at home, she was able to carry this music into her school band and music theatre studies.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,1693530,00.html   (826 words)

  
 UBL: artist profile - Allison Crowe
Allison Crowe's birthplace, Nanaimo, B.C., (known as the "Harbour City"), is found on Vancouver Island, in the naturally beautiful ocean and forest setting of Canada's Pacific Northwest.
Allison Crowe has shared a stage with popular jazzer, and fellow Nanaimo-ite, Diana Krall and had her version of a Beatles song placed on a tribute album alongside tracks by punk/DIY legends Sylvain Sylvain (of the New York Dolls) and the late Dee Dee Ramone.
In 2005, Allison Crowe released a double album, "Live at Wood Hall", and a fan-club-only DVD of her live-in-the studio "Tidings" performance.
www.ubl.com /artists/allisoncrowe/profile   (945 words)

  
 DOA - Allison Crowe - Secrets
Allison Crowe is a young, Canadian woman who has only just begun making waves with her unique music.
I first came across a bootleg of Crowe performing an Ani DiFranco song and was impressed with her distinctive interpretation since most DiFranco covers I hear are performed seem to be as close as possible to the original.
Allison Crowe is an artist I hope to follow for many years to come.
www.adequacy.net /review.php?reviewid=4048   (434 words)

  
 CD Baby: ALLISON CROWE: secrets
Allison has that rare quality, to deliver her songs with passion and conviction, and to captivate the listener.
Allison Crowe Secrets File Under: Piano-based rock RIYL: Beth Hart, Tori Amos, Sarah MacLachlan, and Norah Jones Allison Crowe is a young, Canadian woman who has only just begun making waves with her unique music.
Allison Crowe is an amazing talent and the music world would be doing itself a huge favor if it paid her the attention she deserves.
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 Allison Crowe News - word on the music, concerts, life of Canadian musician Allison Crowe
Happily, Allison Crowe is joining a magical mystery tour that promises to be one of the coolest cultural events of this, or any, year.
Allison Crowe and Julia Baird met last Summer, at a Beatles celebration organized by Hal Bruce, "The Cavern's very best friend", in Halifax, Nova Scotia - at which Julia, a teacher in Cheshire, was Guest of Honour.
On that occasion Allison received a standing ovation for her solo performances of the Beatles' "Let It Be" and "In My Life" (which has roots in Durness) and John's "Imagine".
www.allisoncrowe.com /news.html   (857 words)

  
 CD Baby: ALLISON CROWE: Tidings - from musicdish
Young Nanaimo pop diva Allison Crowe's recently released Tidings collects surprisingly moving versions of traditional Christmas favourites such as Silent Night, In the Bleak Midwinter, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, The First Noel and O Holy Night and truly transcendent versions of Joni Mitchell's River and Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
Crowe not only makes these Canadian treasures her own, she does almost as much with Lennon and McCartney's In My Life and Let It Be, the Stones' Shine a Light and Sarah McLachlan's Angel.
Crowe and her drummer and bassist do live-off-the-floor versions of the traditional "Silent Night," "In the Bleak Midwinter" and "O Holy Night" plus three other appropriately but imaginatively selected songs, Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," The Stones' "Shine a Light," and Sarah McLachlan's "Angel." It's Crowe's best-recorded work so far, featuring soulful performances.
cdbaby.com /cd/crowe4/from/musicdish   (1174 words)

  
 UCW Entertainment Newswire - Allison Crowe Rocks On   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Now, singer-songwriter Allison Crowe is readying for her first concerts in Europe ~ on soil in which is bedded her ancestral roots.
Last year, the London-based music journal Record of the Day, declared: "Allison Crowe has a voice to fall in love with." And, last month, the UK's premiere roots and country magazine, Maverick, labeled her "a force to be reckoned with".
By the time Allison Crowe returns to North America for a series of Tidings concerts in eastern Canada, the U.S. and B.C., this DVD will be released as a treat for fan club members.
news.ucwe.com /content/view/706/2   (430 words)

  
 Allison Crowe
This was Allison Crowe's first perform-ance, in kindergarten at Nanaimo's Cilaire School, singing the chorus to a big hit of the Jazz age, Ja-da (Ja-da Jing Jing Jing!).
Crowe attended Nanaimo's Woodlands Secondary, where she excelled in musical theatre under Virginia Wylie and Peter Spencer and band taught by Rick Becker.
"6 Songs", the just-released debut EP by Allison Crowe's trio, starts off with "Fade Away", the first song penned by Crowe (when she was 15), and is dedicated to the loving memory of a kindred spirit, Alma Crowe, Allison's grandmother, and a musician, who recently passed from this world.
www.cvnet.net /cosmic/z_crowe.htm   (1384 words)

  
 Luna Kafé - Allison Crowe: Secrets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Singer/pianist Allison Crowe may look frail, but she has a powerful voice.
Crowe's singing is stirring here even if she holds back a little.
Crowe uses her remarkable voice to emote and it works well.
www.lunakafe.com /moon94/ca94.php   (162 words)

  
 Allison Crowe Earns 'Fab' Reviews for Supreme Song Stylings
Crowe now has the distinction of receiving the thumbs up for her covers by Europe's long-standing fan clubs of both, The Beatles and The Stones - once rivals as the greatest bands of the '60s.
Crowe's versions of songs by the greatest solo artists and writers of rock's golden era are meeting with equally enthusiastic acclaim - marking her emergence as a supreme song stylist.
One of my favorites; there is a pinch of Shawn (Colvin) in Allison's voice, except imo Allison has more punch and emotional bite in her vocals.
www.pressbox.co.uk /detailed/Arts/Allison_Crowe_Earns_Fab_Reviews_for_Supreme_Song_Stylings_34367.html   (561 words)

  
 Allison Crowe - @forums
In late 2003 Allison Crowe launched her own label, Rubenesque Records Ltd., with the release of “Lisa’s Song + 6 Songs” ~ a collection of songs recorded live-off-the-floor over the preceding couple of years.
Allison also has done her fair share of covers, as she is a great fan of Ani DiFranco and Tori Amos.
If you like her, be sure to visit her homepage, join the forum, buy her CDs, come to one of her shows, or just spread the word on her, because she deserves more attention.
www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=271485   (636 words)

  
 SoundClick artist: Allison Crowe - Beautifully moody or riotously rocking, Allison Crowe creates piano-based music of ...
"Allison Crowe has a voice to fall in love with," says Record of the Day, the UK’s essential music industry news service.
These days, Crowe is praised not only as a singularly exciting songwriter and live performer, but, also, as a song interpreter.
As well as helping launch her second one-hour television special broadcast across Canada, upon its release, Crowe’s Tidings CD was one of only two albums awarded four stars by The Toronto Sun in its holiday CD roundup - the other being The Christmas Collection, an evergreen Frank Sinatra reissue.
www.soundclick.com /allisoncrowe   (1135 words)

  
 Allison Crowe - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
One of Allison Crowe's newest songs, this version of By Your Side was recorded live in concert at Wood Hall, a converted chapel in the Conservatory of Music, Victoria, B.C. Canada.
This Counting Crows song is the first tune performed by Allison Crowe, when, as a teenager, she began her career on stage.
One of the groups that inspired Allison Crowe in her songwriting from the start is Counting Crows.
music.download.com /allisoncrowe/3600-8742_32-100484900.html   (1577 words)

  
 New Songs for Peace > Song Submissions > Artist Spotlight Archives > Allison Crowe
Allison Crowe may not be well-known now but this young woman has the voice and talent to be the next Alanis or Norah.
In her pre-teens, Allison Crowe heard Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald albums spinning at home and carried this music into her school band and music theatre studies.
Combining classical virtuosity with the improvisational qualities of jazz and the power and energy of gospel and rock at its most visceral, she's been called "a force of nature" by critics who've found her original voice impossible to pigeonhole.
www.newsongsforpeace.org /spotlight-200403.html   (1324 words)

  
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Crowe is a certified poet whose rich, powerful voice shows the influences of everyone from Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan to Janis Joplin and even Nina Simone.
Born and raised in Nanaimo, Crowe is a classically trained pianist who has gradually created her own special blend of jazz, folk, rock and blues." "Allison Crowe has a voice to fall in love with," says the U.K.'s Record of the Day.
Since then, Allison has released three CDs (two EPs and one full-length album) to great critical and public response and her solo career has been steadily gaining momentum as she builds in a grassroots way - largely through the internet and word of mouth.
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 Top40-Charts.com - 40 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 25 Countries
Crowe is earning growing critical and popular acclaim for her artistry.
This recent holiday season her albums, (created at a cost that is a miniscule fraction of most recording artists), Secrets and Tidings, have been named as top picks by reviewers from indie webzines to mass-circulation newspapers.
In the Toronto Sun, one of Canada's largest circulation dailies, holiday albums from Allison Crowe and Frank Sinatra ranked highest, with Tidings, Crowe's live, single-take, recording topping a sack-full of popular big-budget label releases (from such acts as Chris Isaak, Jessica Simpson, Clay Aiken, Vanessa Williams and the Barenaked Ladies).
top40-charts.com /news.php?nid=12546   (697 words)

  
 Allison Crowe.co.uk
Allison's version is only bested by an Indigo Girls version recorded in a concert (on the 1200 Curfews album release).
Present on this album as with all Allison's albums are her trademark vocals which are as ever unique.
Showcasing the softer and delicate side of Allison's voice is a cover of Counting Crows Raining in Baltimore, accompanied by only a piano, this is a really nice cover of a beautiful song and from the way Allison sings it you could be fooled that she wrote it, such is the insight.
www.allisoncrowe.co.uk /Music.html   (2508 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tidings: Music: Allison Crowe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Allison Crowe succeeds in spectacular, inspired, fashion with this highly original approach.
Still, Allison Crowe pulls it off, and makes her take on "Silent Night", "The First Noel" and "What Child Is This" instant favorites.
Crowe's renditions of the secular, rock and pop, songs on the album are equally magnificent.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00063BJC4?v=glance   (1029 words)

  
 Auralgasms Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
I’ve had the honor of working with Allison for a number of years now, and, in my role as her unorthodox manager, one of my greatest joys is being able to share her music.
In spotlighting Allison, Collected Sounds' Producer Amy Lotsberg, (an early champion of such independent artists as Vienna Teng and Regina Spektor), says: "I figured she had some fun things going on and it was high time to call some more attention to her again".
And, there ARE plenty of fun things going on with Allison Crowe this year ~ recording and live performances that further demonstrate her supreme, and singular, artistry.
www.auralgasms.com /Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=16112   (2058 words)

  
 Allison Crowe ~ 2004 plans - WOMANROCK.com message board
Allison’s upcoming releases will put the focus back on the songs, and the singer, as was more the spirit in the ’60s and ’70s.
Lead vocal and pianos tracks for Allison Crowe’s second debut album, “Alive and Breathing”, (a rock record), have been recorded and Allison is currently writing and selecting songs for a third album (of varied styles).
This past month, a number of Allison Crowe’s recordings have gone online at Amazon.com and they are charting near the top in their respective download categories.
www.womanrock.com /ubb/Forum2/HTML/000253.html   (3038 words)

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