Artists:Allison Downey With John Austin
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Born in Berlin, Germany, raised in Washington, DC, Allison is a world traveler, well, 5 continents that is, living for extended periods in Spain, France, Brazil, Senegal, Africa; Tortola, British Virgin Islands; as well as Maine, New Mexico, Texas, Ohio, Washington, and Michigan. She spent much of the past 20 years traipsing across all 50 United States, Canada, England, Mexico, Western Europe, Australia & New Zealand (w/17 twelve year olds), and Eastern Europe before the crumbling of the iron curtain. She’s climbed the Grand Teton, the tallest mountain in Wyoming, lived in a tent near the Yukon on a glacier lake, lived in an New Mexican adobe house heated only by the firewood she chopped, snorkled the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia, herded sheep and cattle & picked potatoes while living above the pigs in an 1100 year old stone house in Galicia province, Spain.
Allison absorbs the sounds, scents, textures, landscapes, and seascapes of the places she visits. These experiences seep into the songs she writes as portraits, snapshots or vignettes as if she’s creating a scene on stage. She is able to traverse landscapes of loss, discover humor in the mundane, find poignancy in simple exchanges, and reveal the universality of human nature within the disparities of life. Across the Sea, her latest recording, takes the listener to the streets of a homeless person, a middle school dance, fantasies of Ireland, the dusty earth of Texas, the landscape of a lost lover, an English pub at last call, the backyard filled with the critters, and through the gamut of life’s emotions. The songs embody an organic and folksy sound while borrowing from Folk-pop to Texas twang, Bluegrass to sultry Jazz, and from folk guitar ballads to ethereal, contemporary piano duets. The themes of distance and longing for love out of reach thread through most of the songs without taking on a melancholy tone, due in large part to the lightness and humor of Allison’s stories and performances. Allison artfully brings the characters in the stories to life. She even transforms into her alter-egos when audience favorites “Carmen” or “Melba” take the stage to offer their version of a song, a harkening to her advanced training in theatre.
Allison honed her craft in Austin, TX before bringing her style of music to her current home of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Since 2004, Allison has been performing with her partner in music and life, John Austin. Allison’s “Midwestern Urban Folk” originals are complimented by the dynamic grooves of John’s six-string bass. Allison’s newest recording, Across the Sea (2008), produced by Michael Crittenden of Mackinaw Harvest Records features her husband, John, Annie & Rod Capps, and Michael Crittenden & Brian Morrill of “Troll for Trout.” Two of the songs, “Almost” and “All That Matters,” won Allison the 2007 People’s Choice Award for the Wildflower! Festival Performing Songwriting Competition (TX). Allison's debut CD, Wind at Your Back (Little Ditty Records, 2002), produced by veteran performers Christine Albert & Chris Gage, also won her awards and has been heard on radio stations around the country..
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