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 ...

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 ...

Alan Doyle, the former front man for the Canadian band Great Big Sea, will finally bring his Beautiful, Beautiful Band to the Barre Opera House for an 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, concert, one that has ...

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 ...

It was a great big lovefest between Great Big Sea and the 1,000-plus crowd at Buffalo Place Rocks the Harbor on Friday night. The popular Canadian band performed a mix of old favorites and new songs ...

Energetic Canadian (Newfoundland and Labrador, actually) folk rockers Great Big Sea have a new album out, "Safe Upon the Shore," recorded in New Orleans and produced by Los Lobos' sax man Steve Berlin ...

When members of Great Big Sea suggested they add a second CD of traditional folk songs to their 2004 pop-rock album, "Something Beautiful," Warner Canada label executives were less than encouraging.

Alan Doyle is a busy man. The Newfoundlander plays Wolf Redmond on the Canadian TV series “Republic of Doyle” and another part as Dingy — with Will Smith, Colin Farrell and an old chum and co-star ...