Allison Crowe, auteure-compositrice-interprète native du Canada

This guitar-song closes Allison Crowe's 2008 album/CD, "Little Light".

Images married to the music are all by the great young Canadian photographer (and musician) Billie Woods ( http://www.billiewoods.com ) who took the shots as she toured across Europe with Allison Crowe in '08.

Wedding Song ~ Words & Music by Allison Crowe

At the turning of another moon
comes time to end this day
and only so many have to pass
as I am gone away

So I sing you now this lullaby
though it is bittersweet
for we have to part when we close our eyes
but every morning meet

These words fall down upon this page
I never do get to sleep
but to be so far away from you
I lay my head and weep

I know this night will be over soon
there's another day in sight
though darkness falls on empty sheets
only you bring in the light

I will never be the perfect wife
I don't even know what that is
but I will be here and he'll always know
that my heart is his

So count down the days
and draw the curtains back
pour the wine and say
that we'll love as much as we both can do
until our dying day


http://www.allisoncrowe.com

Canadian musician Allison Crowe performs live in concert "Me and Bobby McGee", the Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson song recorded famously by Janis Joplin.

Images are from Billie Woods, (http://www.billiewoods.com) , the terrifically talented photographer who regularly tours Europe with Crowe. These pics are from such locations as Frankfurt and Siegen, Germany and Durness, Scotland where Allison Crowe headlined the 'Northern Lights Festival', a benefit for the John Lennon Memorial Garden.

As with her other interpretations, Allison Crowe doesn't mimic the sound or style of another artist. Instead, she covers songs in her own voice.

"Allison Crowe is the best thing to happen to 'Me And Bobby McGee' since Janis Joplin changed Kristofferson's lyrics" says Allan Showalter in the entertainingly erudite "pastiche of a blog" (http://1heckofaguy.com) 1 Heck of a Guy.

Vendredi 9 mai 2008 à 21h
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17 boulevard de Strasbourg, 75010 Paris

ALLISON CROWE et SUGAR PLUM VISIONS (1ère partie)


ALLISON CROWE

Allison Crowe, auteur-compositeur-interprète indépendante et accomplie, se produit à Paris dans le cadre de sa tournée Européenne pour un concert unique en France à ne pas manquer!

Dotée d'une voix qui ne peut laisser insensible, elle est originaire de Colombie Britannique et de Terre-Neuve, au Canada. Descendante des Ecossais, des Irlandais et des Manx, Allison Crowe est un phénomène. "Quand Elton John rencontre Edith Piaf", rapporte un chroniqueur. L'intensité avec laquelle sa voix riche et puissante célèbre la musique n'est pas sans rappeler celle des plus grandes chanteuses de blues (voir vidéos plus bas).

Influencée par la fougue indépendante d'Ani DiFranco (Allison a également monté son propre label), par la beauté ésotérique de Tori Amos ainsi que par la passion de grands artistes tels que Eddie Vedder, Fiona
Apple, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, et...Beethoven. Allison Crowe, pianiste classique de formation, a peu à peu créé sa propre musique, mélange indescriptible de rock, gospel, jazz, grunge, classique, blues, folk et soul. A travers ses chansons, elle communique sur des thémes universels comme l'amour, la vie et la mort.

"J'ai rarement été bouleversée à ce point par une voix féminine. Pure comme de la glace, puissante et même violente sur la reprise de l'Hallelujah de Leonard Cohen." ~ Splintermuse (France)

"Treat yourself to one of the mightiest talents on the singer-songwriter scene today." ~ Bob Muller, JoniMitchell.com (USA)

"Get a piece of paper and write Tori Amos in the top left hand corner. Then write Patti Smith top right, followed by Stevie Nicks and Leonard Cohen (stay with me) in the bottom two positions. Then draw diagonal lines from their names to the centre, forming a big symmetrical cross. Here is where you will find Allison Crowe's music." ~ The Scene (Australia)

"Her version of "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" would give Aretha Franklin goose-bumps." ~ Robert Moyes, Boulevard (Canada)

"The most honest, heartfelt, and directly intimate concert in my entire life" ~ Ross Hocker, WGTE/NPR Radio (USA)

Plus d'infos sur : http://www.allisoncrowe.com


SUGAR PLUM VISIONS

Auteur-compositeur-interprète, Emily Bakhtaoui-Green développe son monde musical depuis toute petite. A la croisée des genres, entre jazz et pop, entre français, anglais et autres bruits bizarres...

Ses émotions, son quotidien, le partage des idées et des expériences: tout est source d'inspiration pour son imaginaire musical qu'elle nomme Sugar Plum Visions. Longuement mijotées, les chansons d'Emily Bakhtaoui-Green sont de petits sortilèges concoctés pour se regarder au fond des yeux. Des hallucinations qui dessinent les vies passées, futures, présentes ou rêvées...Une musique sur la liberté d'être entre la France et l'Angleterre, entre la Lune et la Terre...

Plus d'infos sur : http://www.myspace.com/sugarplumvisionsoundz

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Imaginez la Paix! Imagine Peace!

Allison Crowe performs at the John Lennon Northern Lights Festival in Durness, Scotland.

The Scotsman, "Scotland's national newspaper", gives the John Lennon Northern Lights Festival four-out-of-four stars and this review ( :

The Scotsman Mardi 2 Oct 2007

LIGHTING UP DURNESS IN LENNON'S MEMORY

THE JOHN LENNON NORTHERN LIGHTS FESTIVAL ****
VARIOUS VENUES, DURNESS

SITUATED closer to Oslo than Liverpool, it's easy to see why John Lennon
spent so much of his youth in Durness. With its white, sandy beaches and
picture-perfect mountainous terrain, a story hides behind almost every
rock in this remote village in the north-west highlands. The Northern
Lights - the only thing to get a Scotsman to stand outside without a
coat in late September - made an appearance, but the real magic was
going on under the sky, as people from all around the world gathered to
pay homage to Lennon's spirit.

At the Sango Sands Oasis, Lennon's first band, The Quarrymen, delighted
onlookers with a skiffle set and stories about John while giving people
in the audience a chance to play with them on washboard.

Meanwhile, a mile down the road at Smoo Cave - a spectacular smugglers'
cove believed to be the abode of spirits who guard the entrance to the
netherworld - there was the surreal sight of Mr Boom. An entranced group
of kids sat between the limestone cliffs as the one-man-band entertainer
took them to another planet.

A stone's throw away at the village hall, Canadian angel Allison Crowe
gave one of the weekend's most magical moments, earning one of few
encores for her solo rendition of Lennon's In My Life (a song inspired
by Durness).

Students from the Royal Academy of Music injected new life into the
Beatle's work later on with new, inspired arrangements of Norwegian Wood
and Imagine. Their mentor, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, however - making
his first public appearance in 15 years - played an ingenious number
called Clouds on a badly-tuned piano borrowed from the local bookshop.

He wrote it, Davies said, when he was 11 years old. You could almost
imagine an 11-year-old John Lennon listening to it in wonder too.

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