In Her Voice I Heard the Cry of the World": Live at Wood Hall, New Allison Crowe CD Release July 1/4

This July 1, Canada Day, and July 4, Independence Day in the U.S., will mark the release of Live at Wood Hall" ~ an exciting journey through Allison Crowe's concert repertoire, freshly recorded in the converted chapel of Victoria (B.C.)s Conservatory of Music.

(PRWEB) June 26, 2005 -- Why music?" Why breathing?" - Allison Crowes credo says it all.

On the liner to his album, The Times They Are a Changin, Bob Dylan notes, theres a movie called Shoot the Piano Player/ the last line proclaimin/ 'music, man, thats where its at/ it is a religious line/ outside, the chimes rung/ an they/ are still ringin."

In the words of Leonard Cohen: God is alive. Magic is afoot."

This July 1, Canada Day, and July 4, Independence Day in the U.S., will mark the release of Live at Wood Hall" ~ an exciting journey through Allison Crowe's concert repertoire, freshly recorded in the converted chapel of Victoria (B.C.)s Conservatory of Music.

Alongside more than an album's worth of original songs of love and hope (including There Is) to social and political commentary (Disease, Whether Im Wrong), the acclaimed vocalist/pianist covers her favourites - in a range from roots/blues (A Murder of One, Me and Bobby McGee), through folk (Ani DiFranco's Independence Day), pop/rock (John Lennon's Imagine and Tori Amos' Playboy Mommy), jazz (In Love In Vain), and Broadway (Bill, I Dreamed a Dream).

Like Satchmo blowing and scatting, or Van Morrison venturing into the slipstream between the viaducts of our dreams, Allison Crowe has a singular musical voice ~ as honest and natural as birdsong. And what she communicates, like the sounds of the Sanctified Church, Mahalia Jacksons inspiration, and the secular, E Street, temple of Bruce Springsteen, is joyous and redemptive in its power.

Building on the grassroots momentum of her popular CDs, Secrets and Tidings, Crowe will soon be performing across Canada and Europe in support of Live at Wood Hall.

An outside, the chimes are still ringin.

There Is ~ http://www.allisoncrowe.com/101AllisonCroweThereIs.mp3

A Murder of One ~ http://www.allisoncrowe.com/121AllisonCroweAMurderofOne.mp3

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