Allison Crowe's Tidings on 42nd Street - EDAF Benefit Concert in NYC December 7, 2008

Expect plenty of holiday cheer, laced with overtones of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, jazz and Broadway, as Canada's popular bicoastal singer-songwriter Allison Crowe brings "Tidings" to the Laurie Beechman Theater (212-695-6909 http://www.westbankcafe.com/theater ) on Sunday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m. All concert proceeds to the EveryDay Angels Foundation ( http://www.edaf.org ). Come Winter, EDAF volunteers collect warm clothes and blankets for the needy - as part of "Project Warmth". Concert attendees are asked to bring a new or gently used coat or blanket donation which will be distributed by a local facility to those in need.

"Music for the season and all time." Tidings stirs together traditional Christmas carols and holiday favourites with an organic blend of rock, jazz, folk, gospel and soul. "The Yuletide find of the year," says The Record. "Be prepared to be amazed," chimes ChristmasReviews.com, "Allison Crowe is a stunningly talented performer." Longtime NPR broadcaster Ross Hocker calls Allison Crowe's show, "The most honest, heartfelt, and directly intimate concert in my entire life."

"Treat yourself to one of the mightiest talents on the singer-songwriter scene today," says Bob Muller, song curator at JoniMitchell.com "Ever wonder what it would have been like to listen to a gifted singer/songwriter from Saskatchewan in a small, intimate hall before she became Joni Mitchell? Don't fret the missed opportunity. There's no need to turn back the clock. Check out Allison Crowe," writes Robert Reid in The Record.

Crowe's rare gift and talent in communicating emotions not only make her a thrilling original act, her role as an interpreter is getting much recognition. "Her version of 'I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)' would give Aretha Franklin goose-bumps," notes Robert Moyes in Boulevard. This month, two major tributes to Leonard Cohen have featured her song contributions.

During her triumphal Beatles Week 2008 concert series, BBC Radio 2 interviewed and recorded Allison Crowe in Liverpool performing "Hallelujah" for an hour-long documentary, "The Fourth, The Fifth, The Minor Fall", that explores the many facets of this Leonard Cohen creation. Other participants include musicians Imogen Heap and Kathryn Williams alongside producers John Lissauer (Leonard Cohen) and Andy Wallace (Jeff Buckley).

UK-based MOJO magazine pays tribute to Leonard Cohen with its December '08 issue which celebrates "deep and moving music, the kind of stuff we need in the run up to the holiday period". Of Allison Crowe's contribution of "Joan of Arc" to its 'All Star Tribute", a cover-mount CD titled "Cohen Covered", MOJO says: "Once famously described by the Vancouver Courier as possessing a style akin to 'Elton John meets Edith Piaf', the Canadian singer-songwriter Allison Crowe is renowned for her ability to blend control and melodrama. Certainly she does so on this spirited cover of Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate classic, a track which also powerfully showcases her considerable talent as a fine interpreter of song."

Admission to Allison Crowe's Tidings Concert on Sunday, December 7, 2008 - 7:30 p.m. at the Laurie Beechman Theater is by way of $10 donation to EDAF + $15 food and/or beverage minimum

For more info: http://www.westbankcafe.com/theater + http://www.edaf.org + http://www.allisoncrowe.com

Reserve @ Laurie Beechman Theater (212) 695-6909
407 West 42nd Street (downstairs at West Bank Café)

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