Pat McCullough, the man behind Celtic Events, first heard Great Big Sea at Red Rocks, when the musical group opened for another act. “When you hear the band play Newfoundland accordion music and sea ...

THE GREAT Big Sea's sailor shanty style reflects the group's Newfoundland home so jovially that an album made solely of local and traditional tunes is a logical choice. Many of the tracks on "The Hard ...

Bob Hallett says his band, Great Big Sea, once played for 6,000 people in Washington, D.C. It was difficult, even for him, to understand how the band, which hails from Newfoundland, a ...

The band Great Big Sea has quietly become Newfoundland's greatest export since the Labrador retriever. It has done so by taking music indigenous to its isolated homeland -- traditional, Celtic-tinged ...

For longtime fans of Newfoundland combo Great Big Sea, frontman Alan Doyle has some good news and some bad news. On the upside, he has a rollicking new solo effort out, his third — the Bob ...

On his first solo album, 2012’s Boy on Bridge, Great Big Sea singer-guitarist Alan Doyle set out to make a “travelogue.” “I intentionally wanted to leave the tricks I learned behind and I wanted to ...