Festival to distribute Allison Crowe's "secrets"

Starting this month, Festival Distribution, Canada's premiere distributor of folk, blues, jazz, world and roots music, is making available coast-to-coast Allison Crowe's first debut album, "secrets".

(PRWEB) July 12, 2004 -- Starting this month, Festival Distribution, Canada's premiere distributor of folk, blues, jazz, world and roots music, is making available coast-to-coast Allison Crowe's first debut album, "secrets".

secrets", a singer-songwriter collection, is garnering glowing reviews internationally. The CD is soulful, poignant, and always intense" says indie music columnist Jennifer Patton (Delusions of Adequacy), who notes: Allison plays with styles and infuses bits of blues, folk, jazz, and more into each song, all beautifully packaged around piano and limited use of guitar and other instruments." This incredible chill-inducing voice coming out of a young person is such a rare treat," writes Amy Lotsberg, of Minneapolis-based Collected Sounds. This girls the real deal." Secrets is a great album and Crowe is a brilliant artist," says Swedish reviewer Anna Maria Stjärnell writing for Luna Kafé.

Allison Crowe is that rarest of modern music-makers, a popular artist capable of bridging the divide between high and low culture.

Music-lover Nick Hornby commented recently in an op-ed piece (for the New York Times), today, a rock/pop act: can either chase the Britney dollar, or choose the high-minded cult-rock route that leads to great reviews and commercial oblivion." Hornby observes: It now requires more bravery than one would ever have thought necessary to try and march straight on, to choose neither the high road nor the low." He asks: who wants to make art that is committed and authentic and intelligent, but that sets out to include, rather than exclude? To do so would run the risk of seeming not only sincere and uncool - a stranger to all notions of postmodernism - but arrogant and vaultingly ambitious as well."

Allison Crowe, who succeeds in making her own way through the middle, is excited and delighted to now be aided by the national forces of Festival. The Festival team, under leader Jack Schuller, is responsible for delivering the music of two-time Juno Award winner David Francey, new soul sensation Ruthie Foster, east/west music-blender Harry Manx and other artists of the highest calibre. And, in Canada, Festival is the distributor for Ani DiFranco, "the little folk-singer who could" ~ one of Alley's greatest inspirations.

After all, its Ani who has pointed out: "If you are disgustingly sincere and terribly diligent, there are ways for any serious artist to operate outside the corporate structure."

As well as getting secrets" to retail outlets anywhere in Canada, Festival mails out music all over the world. In North America they can be reached toll-free at 1-800-633-8282. Their website and secure web-store is located @ www.festival.bc.ca