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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Doyle, Alan, 1969-     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     Browse Catalog     by author:      Doyle, Alan, 1969-       by title:      A Newfoundlander in ...       by call number:      781.64092 D7542n     Search the Web     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. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 781.64092 D7542n Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 781.64092 D7542n Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 781.64092 D7542n Core Collection - Adult Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 781.64092 D7542n Adult books Trace   Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 781.64092 D7542n Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 781.64092 D7542n Adult books Checked out Jul 23, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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