Allison Crowe
Vancouver Island local Allison Crowe (born on November 16, 1981) began honing
her singing skills at coffee shops and in the drinking dens of the British
Columbia coastal idyll aged 15. Capturing the spirit of moody, late 1990s
female-led alt-rock and the chamber pop of Tori Amos, her debut EP, the elegiac
Lisa's Song + Six Songs, arrived in 2001. The EP's title track was a poignant
tribute to Crowe's high school friend Lisa Marie Young, who disappeared one
night and is still missing from her hometown of Nanaimo in British Columbia.
Taking inspiration from folk, jazz, grunge and p...
