2. Born 28 years ago, on an island, in the harbour
city of Nanaimo, B.C.
3. Ani DiFranco as a model of integrity, and
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"game" for resourceful musicians, Crowe
created her own label. Since 2003, Rubenesque
Records Ltd has released a series of critically
and commercially successful albums: Lisa's
Song+ 6 Songs; Secrets; Tidings; Live at Wood
Hall; This Little Bird; and Little Light. Crowe's
newest (2010) album is Spiral.
5. A true grassroots success, Crowe is praised not only as
a singularly talented songwriter - on themes personal
as well as worldly - and as a visceral performer, but,
also, as a supreme interpreter of song. Her vital takes
on such 21st century standards as Leonard Cohen's
"Hallelujah", Joni Mitchell's "River" and The Beatles' "In
My Life" are applauded as "truly transcendent" and her
singular covers have achieved broad, even mainstream,
popularity, featured by BBC Radio, MOJO magazine
and by acclaimed Hollywood director Zack Snyder
(300, The Watchmen). Allison Crowe's Tidings CD, a mix
of traditional carols plus songs of joy, peace, and
redemption from the secular songbook, is an emerging
classic: "music for the season and all time".
6. Vocalist, pianist, guitarist, songwriter,
engineer, producer and arranger, Allison
Crowe now lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia
and Corner Brook, Newfoundland. From these
home-bases, (spanning the full 7000 km
breadth of Canada), she tours steadily, earning
a reputation for exciting live shows that stir
together her original songs with much-loved
interpretations in an organic blend of rock,
jazz, folk, Broadway, gospel and soul.
