Category: Great Big Sea
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Alan Doyle! May 22nd! The Tractor Tavern in Seattle! BE THERE!
And speaking of things that will involve so much awesome they will violate all laws of space and time, the most belovedest of my beloved B’ys, The Doyle Himself, is about to launch his solo tour for his forthcoming album. First stop? RIGHT HERE IN SEATTLE, BABY! At the Tractor Tavern! 😀 Be advised that…
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Great Atlantic Canadian Adventure is GO!
Dara and I started serious work on booking this last night, and discovered to our chagrin that the fares for cross-country Canada trains are prohibitively expensive! So our Trainventure is going to have significantly fewer trains than expected. But that’s OKAY. Because this entire trip is going to brimming over with so much awesome that…
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I cannot IMAGINE what tipped them off
My latest auto-recommendation email from Amazon is totally to giggle: Folk Songs of Newfoundland, by Alan Mills! Note also this dude has a separate album called We’ll Rant and We’ll Roar: Songs of Newfoundland, too! Wikipedia informs me that Mr. Mills was best known for popularizing Canadian folk music, and it’s very clear, looking over…
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More guitar geeking!
So unless a more awesome name presents itself, my shiny new guitar is going to be henceforth known as “General Taylor”. I am, yes, quite cognizant of the irony of naming a guitar for a song performed without any instruments whatsoever. I have also realized that as I was grabbing shinies to go with the…
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PSA: Great Big Sea @ the Moore in March on presale TOMORROW!
This just in: tickets go on sale on greatbigsea.com for the show at the Moore on March 12th of next year, TOMORROW at 10am! The show will be on a delicious, delicious SATURDAY, so Seattle peeps, if you think you want in on the goodness and you aren’t already a member of the site–i.e., if…
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Well, bugger
The finalists for the Great Big Sea Karaoke Contest were announced this morning and I fear that our video was NOT included on the list! Sniff. Many thanks to all of you who took a look and offered words of encouragement, they are much appreciated! I would like to endorse, in our stead, the “Hit…
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Longest. Weekend. EVER.
I’ve been whinging about this on Twitter and Facebook all day, and now that I’m home, it’s the blog and Livejournal and Dreamwidth’s turn! My beloved B’ys have NOT yet announced the finalists for their karaoke video contest. And given that they’re playing in Toronto tonight, and that they ALSO have shows tomorrow and Sunday…
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Ladies and gentlemen, our GBS contest entry is LIVE
On behalf of my jamming group, I now present to you “Nothing But a Song”, as performed by Twelve Good Measures, featuring Crime and the Forces of Evil! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7X-4pxRSfU&w=560&h=315] Now comes the waiting for the entry round to close–and after that, the selection of finalists! Keep your fingers crossed that our vid will make…
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Video shooting is COMPLETE!
I’d call this a Special Edition Jam Report, except we didn’t actually Jam. Still, though, we had a good number of the Murkjammers present today for the conclusion of our video shooting for our submission to the Great Big Sea Karaoke Contest! In addition to and myself, we had , , and , with surprise…
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The final portion of the Weekend of Great Big Awesome
I would be quite remiss if I didn’t post about the fun , , , , and I have been having putting together the audio track for our contribution to the GBS contest in progress! And by “audio track” I mean “actual audio track”, not just whatever audio Dara’s digital camera might pick up. Dara’s…