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Doyle, Alan, 1969-
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Doyle, Alan, 1969-
Great Big Sea (Musical group)
Rock musicians -- Canada -- Biography.
Musicians -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Musicians -- Canada -- Biography.
Singers -- Canada -- Biography.
Rock groups -- Canada -- Biography.
East Coast music -- Biography.
Folk-rock music -- Canada -- Biography.
Celtic music -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Musicians -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Canada -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes
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Doyle, Alan, 1969-
Doyle, Alan, 1969-
Great Big Sea (Musical group)
Rock musicians -- Canada -- Biography.
Musicians -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Musicians -- Canada -- Biography.
Singers -- Canada -- Biography.
Rock groups -- Canada -- Biography.
East Coast music -- Biography.
Folk-rock music -- Canada -- Biography.
Celtic music -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Musicians -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Canada -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes
MARC Display
A
Newfoundlander
in
Canada
:
always
going
somewhere
,
always
coming
home
/ Alan Doyle.
by
Doyle, Alan, 1969-
Doubleday Canada, 2017.
Call #:
781.64092 D7542n
Subjects
Doyle, Alan, 1969-
Great Big Sea (Musical group)
Rock musicians --
Canada
-- Biography.
Musicians -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Musicians --
Canada
-- Biography.
Singers --
Canada
-- Biography.
Rock groups --
Canada
-- Biography.
East Coast music -- Biography.
Folk-rock music --
Canada
-- Biography.
Celtic music -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Musicians -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Canada
-- Description and travel -- Anecdotes
ISBN:
9780385686198 (hc.)
Description:
244 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Subtitle from cover.
Summary:
Following his memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering
Canada
for the first time. Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book, Alan Doyle turns his perspective outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland
Canada
, reflecting on what it was like to venture away from the comforts of
home
and the familiarity of the island. Often in a van, sometimes in a bus, occasionally in a car with broken wipers "using Bob's belt and a rope found by Paddy's Pond" to pull them back and forth, Alan and his bandmates charted new territory, and he constantly measured what he saw of the vast country against what his forefathers once called the Daemon
Canada
. In a period punctuated by triumphant leaps forward for the band, deflating steps backward and everything in between - opening for Barney the Dinosaur at an outdoor music festival, being propositioned at a gas station mail-order bride service in Alberta, drinking moonshine with an elderly church-goer on a Sunday morning in PEI - Alan's few established notions about
Canada
were often debunked and his own identity as a
Newfoundlander
was constantly challenged. Touring the country, he also discovered how others view Newfoundlanders and how skewed these images can sometimes be. Asked to play in front of the Queen at a massive
Canada
Day festival on Parliament Hill, the concert organizers assured Alan and his bandmates that the best way to showcase Newfoundland culture was for them to be towed onto stage in a dory and introduced not as Newfoundlanders but as "Newfies." The boys were not amused. Heartfelt, funny and
always
insightful, these stories tap into the complexities of community and Canadianness, forming the portrait of a young man from a tiny fishing village trying to define and hold on to his sense of
home
while navigating a vast and diverse and wonder-filled country. Alan Doyle is a Canadian musician and television actor, best known as the lead singer of Canadian folk rock band Great Big Sea. Doyle guest starred on three episodes of the CBC Television series Republic of Doyle as the character Wolf Redmond.
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Memoirs.
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