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St. John, Newfoundland, Canada (1993 – present)

Great Big Sea (often shortened to GBS) is a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs. The band also performs original material.

On March 11, 2010, Great Big Sea celebrated their seventeenth birthday as a band. And like almost every one of their many anniversaries spent together, they celebrated it by playing a concert, this one in Omaha, Nebraska. For the players it was an important landmark, but for the fans, some of whom had travelled hundreds of miles, it was a chance to spend a night with a band that has come to define the energetic spirit of Newfoundland. Somewhere along the way, Great Big Sea ceased to be just a band – for the three core members and their assorted collaborators, it’s a way of life.

“No one is more surprised than us that we have lasted almost 18 years,” points out lead singer Alan Doyle. “Like most bands, when we started we were just looking forward to the next tour, the next show or the next song. Then, after a few years we realized that we liked doing this more than anything else. So we kept going.”

The band has its roots in rowdy pubs in St. John, Newfoundland, Canada where co-founders Sean McCann and Bob Hallett met while playing Newfoundland folk songs for boisterous crowds made up of hard-partying university students and off-duty fishermen.
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  • eirik88

    Yankee Sailooooor!!!

    last month
  • marta259595

    Come play in Newfoundland you guys!

    February 2012
  • angel_clipped

    What the hell happened? These blokes used to be good.

    February 2012
  • enid_coleslaw_

    Fantastic band. Too bad the long haired guy looks like such a tool.

    January 2012
  • InfamousJCGZ

    Saw them live at g-fest a few days ago. Rocked.

    July 2011
  • davion_groovy

    Really good guys! I was very excited by their music and vocal.

    May 2011
  • OllyOy

    I call them "home music" It's the music I listen to when I go back home. Good memories to these songs :D. I'm not from Newfoundland, but Maritimes ftw :D

    April 2011
  • mistfinity

    Play, Turn or Fortune`s Favour

    April 2011
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