Allison Crowe's Corner Brook Tidings December 2, 2011

It's soon time to celebrate with Allison Crowe, as Tidings comes down the chimney.

Settling in Corner Brook, early in 2006, Allison Crowe has wrapped each touring year with a Tidings concert at home. This year, she launches Tidings on the rock - carrying on the popular holiday tradition in Corner Brook (and, for the first time, bringing the fun and excitement to St. John’s).

Expect plenty of rocking holiday cheer, laced with overtones of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles and more when Allison Crowe delivers "Tidings". The internationally-acclaimed musician, born on Vancouver Island, and home in Newfoundland for years now, stirs together traditional Christmas carols and holiday favourites with an organic blend of rock, jazz, folk, gospel and soul. "Be prepared to be amazed," chimes ChristmasReviews.com Longtime NPR broadcaster Ross Hocker calls Allison Crowe's show, "The most honest, heartfelt, and directly intimate concert in my entire life."

Italian radio calls Allison Crowe "Una voce incredibile per una forza della natura."

As a performing artist, Crowe is akin, in ways, to the late, great, Swedish power-house soprano, Birgit Nilsson, about whom it's said "No record or CD could quite prepare a listener for the real thing, live in the opera house".

Tidings is Allison Crowe's melding of the sacred and secular in "songs of the season" and spirit. Some of the music is familiar repertoire, delivered in singular style. Some is not like anything customarily heard in a holiday-time concert.

Tidings viscerally surveys a musical terrain of carols - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, In the Bleak Midwinter, What Child Is This, First Noel, Silent Night, O Holy Night - performed with rare artistry and passion, and emotive arrangements, alongside the modern canon of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Lennon/McCartney+, and Allison Crowe's original songs, (including the just-composed "Arthur", and the epic "Disease"), that draw on themes of faith, hope, sorrow, joy, redemption, transcendence and more from life's well.

First staged in 2003, Tidings is an exciting experience shared by music-lovers around the world. This holiday season Allison Crowe brings Tidings to:

Corner Brook - Friday, December 2 - 8 pm show (doors 7 pm) at Corner Brook First United Church, 19 Park Street, Corner Brook, NL. Tickets now @: Brewed Awakening ((cash or cheque only, please - 35 West St. & 93 Mt. Bernard); Village Music (30 Main St.); Gary Bennett Music (93 West St.); & First United Church (19 Park St.); & allisoncrowe.com

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Official Website: http://www.allisoncrowe.com/tour.html