Allison Crowe's St. John's Tidings November 25, 2011

Expect plenty of rocking holiday cheer, laced with overtones of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles and more when Allison Crowe launches this year’s “Tidings” tour at D.F. Cook Recital Hall, MUN, on Friday, November 25 with an 8 pm concert.

The internationally-acclaimed, Corner Brook-based, musician, 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.

Since its first staging in 2003, Tidings has evolved into a singular concert experience, known to music-lovers around the world, and, this holiday season, Allison Crowe brings Tidings to St. John’s.

Tickets now @: Fred's Records (198 Duckworth St.); & O'Brien's Music Store (278 Water St.); & in Allison's online Box Office @ http://www.allisoncrowe.com/shoptickets.html

Tickets: $20 General / $15 Students & Seniors Advance (Door: $22 / $17)

Info: http://www.allisoncrowe.com + management@allisoncrowe.com

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