Tag: GBS
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End of an era
Sean McCann is apparently done with Great Big Sea. A sad day for us all in the fandom.
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The most important thing about the Great Big Sea show tonight
Anna FINALLY gets her picture taken with Alan Doyle, lead singer of Great Big Sea, and somehow manages NOT to spontaneously combust on the spot.
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Ordinary Day, en français!
I’ve just translated the entirety of Great Big Sea’s “Ordinary Day” into French! And for my next trick, I’ll actually learn to sing it. With podorythmie, because this thing IS in 4/4, y’know.
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Great Big Sea at the PNE in Vancouver, 8/21/2013
48-hour turnaround time: fastest trip I’ve done to Vancouver in some time! Possibly EVER! Because yeah, my belovedest Dara and I zoomed up to Vancouver by train on Wednesday morning, and home again on Thursday night. We crashed at the home of friends Geri and Rob, and the purpose before us was, of course, GREAT…
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I am a folk music resource!
Well, for a small number of bands, anyway! Because apparently this is the week for people to hit my site trying to find out about the instruments played by my favorite groups. Yesterday somebody came by with the search term ‘what mouth instruments do le vent du nord play?’ Answer: just one! Réjean Brunet plays…
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Newfoundland tunes hunt for the weekend
Lest y’all think I am neglecting the Newfoundland side of my musical fandom, let me assure you all that this is NOT the case. I have been playing the ever-lovin’ daylights out of the awesome live “Little Beggarman” track on the GBS XX box set, in no small part because it ends with two jigs…
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Musical adventures at Folklife!
Those of you local to the Seattle area know that Memorial Day weekend is Folklife, and and I being well, us, of course we’re hitting the festival as much as possible this weekend! Yesterday’s adventures started off with an Irish session, apparently the first one at Folklife in four years, and which turned out to…
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Translation of Le Bon Vin
One of the fun things about Google Analytics is that I can see what people who hit my site might have been searching for. And I’ve seen a couple of people come in now looking for a translation of Great Big Sea’s “Le Bon Vin”, which appears on the new XX album. Presumably they’re keying…
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Look what I got! 🙂
Y’all remember my and Dara’s friends maellenkleth and siestabear, right? The fine ladies with whom Dara and I snagged us an encore from Le Vent du Nord last year? Well, they scored themselves some of the super-fancy deluxe backstage tickets to a Great Big Sea show on the current tour–AND! Because they love me and…
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Great Big Sea at the Moore in Seattle, 3/8/2013
It has not escaped my attention, O Internets, that I never did actually finish the series of posts about our Great Canadian Adventure this past summer–and of course the highlight of same, the Great Big Sea show at Torbay in Newfoundland. Given that it is now several months after the fact posting about that would…