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Mar 28, 2009: Allison Crowe’s Spring Show w. guest Joey Clarkson at Stan Hagen Theatre

Posted on 20. Mar, 2009 by BCXS.

Expect overtones of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, jazz and Broadway when Allison Crowe, Canada's exciting, bicoastal, singer-songwriter, performs in concert with special guest Joey Clarkson
at the Stan Hagen Theatre, North Island College (2300 Ryan Road) on Saturday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m.

Dynamic Joey Clarkson (www.joeyclarkson.com) has been in the limelight since she was eight when she won a national poetry contest which springboarded her into songwriting and performing. Since then, she's written and performed dozens of her own songs for a variety of events and appeared on "Jewels of the Island" with the likes of Kenny Shaw and Todd Butler as well as the on inaugural Valley Idol CD. "Joey Clarkson is an extremely talented singer/song-writer and performer, she has catchy fun songs and a quirky lovable style. We are very excited to be working with her. Joey is destined for great things!" beams Susie McGregor of Highland Music Multimedia, where Clarkson is urrently
recording her debut album of orginal songs. As well as running her own successful company, Joey Clarkson Musical Theatre, offering instruction to children and teens, Clarkson happily treads the boards in local
musicals with TheatreWorks, Courtenay Little Theatre, and Rainbow Youth Theatre. As lead singer in the newly formed band "Vestige" her fresh style, thought provoking lyrics and tight harmonies is gaining fans from the Comox Valley and beyond. This coming eekend, she'll perform solo to open the concert.

Born and raised in Nanaimo, BC, now living in Corner Brook, NL, internationally-acclaimed Allison Crowe (www.allisoncrowe.com) delights in a wide range of roles. She's recently performed for the Queen's Master of Music, headlined a concert for the John Lennon Memorial Garden in the Scottish Highlands, been featured on BBC Radio, and in MOJO magazine and media across Europe and North America. Online, her simple, honest, music videos have been enjoyed by more than five million people.

"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. Recently, 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's December '08 issue paid tribute to Cohen with a feature celebrating "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", (alongside Judy Collins, Nick Cave, Martha Wainwright and others), 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."

Longtime NPR Radio host Ross Hocker calls a performance by Allison Crowe: "The most honest, heartfelt, and directly intimate concert in my entire life."

As well as special guest Joey Clarkson, this coming weekend Allison Crowe is joined by a trio of fine west coast musicians. Hailing from Salt Spring Island, Billie Woods, guitarist in Crowe's band, infuses her playing with the warmth and vitality of the sambas, bossa novas and other cultural rhythms of Brazil. Crowe's band on the bill also features a pair of top-flight rhythm-makers: jazzer Dave Baird on acoustic and electric bass, and percussionist Laurent Boucher, renowned for his playing with Sunyata and other combos making music from Big Band to world beat.

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Mar 27, 2009: Allison Crowe’s Spring Show – Powell River at Powell River Academy of Music

Posted on 20. Mar, 2009 by BCXS.

Expect overtones of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, jazz and Broadway when Allison Crowe, Canada's exciting, bicoastal, singer-songwriter, performs in concert at the Powell River Academy of Music (7280 Kemano Street) on Friday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m.

Born and raised in Nanaimo, BC, now living in Corner Brook, NL, internationally-acclaimed Crowe delights in a wide range of roles. She's performed for the Queen's Master of Music, headlined a concert for the John Lennon Memorial Garden in the Scottish Highlands, joined the ensemble cast of The Vagina Monologues at Nanaimo's Malaspina College Theatre, and, online, her simple, honest, music videos have been enjoyed by more than five million people.

"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. Recently, 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's December '08 issue paid tribute to Cohen with a feature celebrating "deep and moving music". Of Allison Crowe's contribution of "Joan of Arc" to its 'All Star Tribute", (alongside Judy Collins, Nick Cave, Martha Wainwright and others), 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."

Longtime NPR Radio host Ross Hocker calls a performance by Allison Crowe: "The most honest, heartfelt, and directly intimate concert in my entire life."

For her first-ever visit to Powell River, this coming weekend Allison Crowe is joined by a trio of fine west coast musicians. Hailing from Salt Spring Island, Billie Woods, guitarist in Crowe's band, opens the show with songs inspired by life in Canada's Pacific northwestern coastal forest, and infused with the warmth and vitality of the sambas,
bossa novas and other cultural rhythms of Brazil. Crowe's band on the bill also features a pair of top-flight rhythm-makers: jazzer Dave Baird on acoustic and electric bass, and percussionist Laurent Boucher, renowned for his playing with Sunyata and other combos making music from Big Band to world beat.

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Mar 27, 2009: “Get the Ingredients for Success” – Breakfast with Founder of Qualcomm Ventures at Hyatt Regency Hotel

Posted on 20. Mar, 2009 by BCXS.

WINBC in partnership with the Vancouver and San Diego Trade Commissioner Service and EDC brings you breakfast with venture advisor and investor and founder of Qualcomm Ventures, Prashant Kantak and Canadian Trade Commissioner and Commnexus board member, Mario Diez.

Find out how to build a successful startup. Examples from successful venture startups in mobile applications.

Get valuable one-on-one advice for your SME from Prashant Kantak.

Access opportunity: move your console games and digital content mobile.

Find out how to access financing and capitalize on trade opportunities around the globe.

Find out how Commnexus maximized the development of its member companies.

Tickets: $40 (WINBC and New Media BC Members)
$60 (Non-members)
$25 (Students)