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Allison Crowes gorgeous voice brings tidings of comfort and joy with Souling her 11th full album release. Here's the first track - a traditional song for souling.
traditional christmas halloween a cappella carol allison crowe souling soul cake british columbia
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"Soulful. Alive. Joyous. Grievous. Real, true, music is what I want to make."
"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..." Robert Reid, The Record (Canada) "Allison Crowe has a voice to fall in love with. She is from Vancouver Island in Canada, descended from Scottish, Irish and Manx stock. She's exactly the sort of artist who can make serious headway on her own label and that's just what she's doing." Record of the Day (UK) "Once famously described 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." MOJO (UK) "With the soul of Janis Joplin and the tenderness of fellow Canuck Sarah McLachlan, Crowe rocks with her own unique brand of roots charm." Exclaim magazine rock - gospel, jazz - grunge, classical - blues, folk - soul; a voice that unites genres and generations
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Rock
Charts
Peak #97
Peak in subgenre #25
Author
Traditional
Rights
Public Domain
Uploaded
November 11, 2014
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.1 MB • 160 kbps • 2:43
Story behind the song
Allison Crowes gorgeous voice brings tidings of comfort and joy with Souling her 11th full album release. The artist, one of our greatest living musicians, singer-songwriters and performers, has always created authentic music. With this newest song set her voice is heard wholly a cappella. The songs themselves have a purity of expression a 21st century take on music of faith and spirit sounds and themes aired by carollers and soulers of old. The genesis of Souling is found in the bond Allison Crowes formed with the creative family at Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador. Founded in 1979, this professional theatre company presents a dynamic and diverse repertoire of plays and maintains, as well, a strong commitment to youth theatre in the Atlantic Canada community. For these past three Summers TNLs engaged Crowe as Musical Director of Newfoundland Vinyl - a perennial favourite at the annual Gros Morne Theatre Festival. Following another hit season at GMTF, in late August of this year TNL Artistic Associate SaraH McDonald invited the Corner Brook, NL-based musician to serve the same role with a vibrant production of A Christmas Carol. The Adaptation of this classic Charles Dickens story by playwright Jeff Pitcher, TNLs Artistic Director, excited Crowes musical imagination as did the desire of McDonald, the plays Director, to incorporate songs in the styl INVALID of Victorian Era carollers. So inspired, Allison Crowe immersed herself in curating the music for the abundantly-talented, multi-aged, choir of singers wholl perform in A Christmas Carol at the Corner Brook Arts and Culture Centre from November 27th 30th, 2014. This artistic process of selection and arrangement led to her recording solo versions of those songs that will receive another distinct breath of life from the TNL vocal ensemble. (In parallel fashion, the first seasons run of Newfoundland Vinyl brought forth Allison Crowes album of the same name one of 2013s top recordings. Culture blog Muruch praised it as a lovely, vintage collection of traditional Irish and Canadian folk ballads, lively sea chanteys and drinking songs, parlour songs and country tunes possessing unique charm and the timeless beauty of a classic folk album.) In 2003, (and expanded in 2004), Allison Crowe released Tidings an album of singular interpretations - River (Joni Mitchell), Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen), In My Life (The Beatles) and more from the secular canon alongside such favourite traditional carols as Silent Night, The First Noel, and O Holy Night. Tidings has proven to be a modern classic music for the season and all time. This time out, as befits TNLs telling of A Christmas Carol, Allison Crowe gives pure voice to the sacred songbook. Souling is: Soul Cake I Saw Three Ships That Night in Bethlehem (Don Oíche úd i mBeithil) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen The Wexford Carol The Holly and the Ivy In the Bleak Midwinter (Cranham) Ding Dong Merrily on High Once in Royal Davids City Wassail Song Souling is available now via Allison Crowes own website @ http://music.allisoncrowe.com/album/souling as well as on iTunes @ https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/souling/id933188580 plus CD Baby @ http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/allisoncrowe10 and all major digital music outlets worldwide.
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