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Great Big Sea is tagged as: folk, canadian, celtic, folk rock, celtic rock

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 pl...
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Top 10 Great Big Sea Songs
The Night Pat Murphy Died
Ordinary Day
Drunken Sailor
Lukey
Consequence Free
When I'm Up (I Can't Get Down)
End of the World
Excursion Around the Bay
The Old Black Rum
I'm a Rover
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Top 10 Great Big Sea Albums
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Great Big Sea
Road Rage
Up
Turn
Sea of No Cares
Something Beautiful
The Hard and the Easy
Fortune's Favour
Safe Upon the Shore
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