Allison Crowe in Concert for "A Brush of Hope" - Friday, Sept. 7 @ The Button Factory (Waterloo Community Arts Centre)
On
Friday, September 7, at 8 p.m., Allison Crowe performs in concert
at The Button Factory, AKA the Waterloo Community Arts Centre (WCAC),
25 Regina St. S., Waterloo. This event is in support of the The
Kidney Foundation of Canada's "A Brush of Hope"
campaign.
"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," says Australia's culture site, The Scene. The
acclaimed vocalist and pianist from Canada fearlessly fits
original songs alongside Pearl Jam, Ani DiFranco, The Beatles,
Rock, Jazz, Broadway and more. It's a joyous sound that one music
critic describes as 'Elton John meets Edith Piaf'. Says JoniMitchell.com
song curator, Bob Muller: "Treat yourself to one of the
mightiest talents on the singer-songwriter scene today."
In a stroke of inspiration, The Kidney Foundation of Canada,
through its Kitchener, Ontario chapter, has come up with a
colourful and creative way to raise awareness and funds for kidney
research.
Allison Crowe is among the artists and broad palette of
celebrities to participate in "A
Brush of Hope" - painting a small canvas that will be
exhibited and auctioned off later this year. Alex Lifeson, Buffy
Sainte-Marie, Rick Mercer, Susan Aglukark, Daniel Lanois, Liona
Boyd, Hawksley Workman, Ronnie Hawkins, Monika Schnarre, Sheila
Copps, Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell, Crowe and others have picked up a
paint-brush to help bring attention to the crisis surrounding
kidney disease and kidney-related illness, not only in Canada, but
around the globe. In 2006, the campaign’s inaugural year, 102
paintings were available for auction on eBay, raising over $16,000
for kidney research.
Allison
Crowe's 2007 painting for "A Brush of Hope"
In
keeping with the theme and the cause, at WCAC on Friday, September
7th, starting at noon, there'll be a number of people from
different fields, painting - with their works to be donated to the
Kidney Foundation's auction which happens later in the Fall.
Included on this day will be: David Hobson (The Record's Gardening
columnist); Brent Hanson (CTV News anchor); Susan Cook-Scheerer
(host of Daytime, cable tv); Denise Baker (jazz vocalist with the
Denise Baker Group); Brian Vollmer (Helix frontman); and Ken
Seiling (Chair of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo).
Come
the evening, performing arts will take centre stage. A true
grassroots independent, Canadian musician Allison Crowe unites
genres and generations. Since launching an independent record
label in 2003, she has released five albums - each of which has
been a critical and commercial success. Her newest album, 'This
Little Bird', has landed on top-ten lists from the USA to Sweden.
It’s currently a hit on radio in Scotland where she travels next
month to be part of the “John Lennon Northern Lights
Festival”.
"Allison has a special gift that is so very rare in musicians
today. She is true to her mind, heart and spirit. She also has a
most wonderful humor which envelops her audience," says Ross
Hocker, long-time public broadcaster with NPR affiliate WGTE.
Hocker, whose taste embraces Thelonious Monk, Bela Bartok and
Charles Gounod, calls a recent performance by Allison Crowe
"the most honest, heartfelt, and directly intimate concert in
my entire life."
Advance
tickets are $18 general/$12 students and seniors @: WCAC
Box Office (25 Regina St. S.); Twelfth Night Music Shoppe (33 Erb
St. W.) in Waterloo; The Kidney Foundation (569 Lancaster St. W.,
Unit A) & Encore Records (54 Queen St. S.) in Kitchener.
For music and more info please visit http://www.allisoncrowe.com and/or write management@allisoncrowe.com and/or phone 250-537-1286
For more on The Kidney Foundation's "A
Brush of Hope: Celebrity Paintings for Kidney Research"
campaign, please contact Tim Fox, Senior Development Manager, The
Kidney Foundation of Canada by email tfox@kidney.ca
and/or phone (519) 742-2023 or 1-800-667-3597
