GREAT BIG SEA PREPARES FOR BIGGEST AND MOST AMBITIOUS TOUR OF CAREER
20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR KICKS OFF MARCH 5TH IN ANNAHEIM, CALIFORNIA
TOUR WILL TAKE GBS FROM COAST-TO-COAST, FEATURING HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BAND’S REMARKABLE 20-YEAR STRETCH
2012 was an amazing year for Great Big Sea, but it was all about looking back. 2013 is going to be about forging ahead, and Great Big Sea’s 20th Anniversary Tour will most certainly be a bold step forward. The dates are set: the tour kicks off March 5th, 2013 in Anaheim, CA and covers North America with a total of 33 dates in 29 cities.
The 20th Anniversary Tour comes off of the release of XX, the band’s first Greatest Hits 2 CD set and a full Box Set which includes bonus audio and a DVD of the band’s early career edited together by founder Sean McCann. XX was released digitally on October 30th, and the two CD package and full Box Set hit stores on November 27th.
20 years is a long time in anyone’s life.
“The GBS XX Tour is going to be a grand celebration of two decades of taking our music from Newfoundland to the rest of the world,” notes Great Big Sea’s Alan Doyle. Adding, “I can’t wait to get out there and say thanks to all the fans who’ve made this possible.”
Few bands last more than an album or two — a few tours, a song played on the radio, and then they’re quickly forgotten. Alan Doyle, Sean McCann and Bob Hallett have somehow managed to keep the dysfunctional-family-bar-room-brawl-student-art-project-musical-pirate-crew known as Great Big Sea going for two decades. And more often than not, they have done it with more than a bit of flair.
For the hundreds of thousands of fans who sang, danced and celebrated with the band, Great Big Sea has been a constant factor in their own lives. While musical fashions have come and gone, Great Big Sea has maintained an unswerving commitment to their original ideals — a belief that a marriage of their own creativity and the joyous folk music of their home in Newfoundland would be an unbeatable combination.
For what was supposed to be a year off, Great Big Sea has had an interesting 12 months. They have played some amazing shows in Ontario, celebrated the mid-summer with a huge concert in Newfoundland, and finally made it to Australia. The main focus of 2012, however, was GBS XX, and the accompanying box set. It took well over a year for the band to assemble, record, and write. The double album flew off the shelves, going gold in just a week.
Great Big Sea will harness this momentum on their 20th Anniversary Tour, which will bring them to 16 cities in the US and Canada. In just a few short weeks, Great Big Sea will start tuning instruments, gassing up buses, and checking microphones. The band’s upcoming tour will bring Great Big Sea from coast-to-coast more than once, seeing them review all the highlights of their 20-year career. These highlights will include some of the band’s more pop-oriented repertoire, as well as some of their most loved traditional and folk songs. Fans will also get to hear some of the new tracks off XX, like the hit ‘Heart of Hearts’, which is classic Great Big Sea, the sound of three men singing and playing acoustic instruments together in their own kitchens.
The GBS 20th Anniversary Tour will be the biggest and most ambitious tour of their career.
GREAT BIG SEA 20th Anniversary Tour - US dates
MAR 05 - Anaheim, CA - Grove of Anaheim
MAR 06 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
MAR 07 - Portland, OR - Alladin Theater
MAR 08 - Seattle, WA - The MooreTheater
MAR 19 - Minneapolis, MN - The Fitzgerald Theater
MAR 20 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues
MAR 21 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room
MAR 22 - Boulder, CO - The Boulder Theater
MAR 23 - Boulder, CO - The Boulder Theater
MAR 23 - Boulder, CO - The Boulder Theater
APR 14 - Buffalo, NY - The Center for the Arts
APR 16 - Ann Arbor, MI - Michigan Theater
APR 17 - Washington, DC - The Warner Theatre
APR 18 - Philadelphia, PA - Keswick Theatre
APR 19 - New York, NY - Town Hall
APR 20 - Boston, MA - The Wilbur Theatre
APR 21 - Boston, MA - The Wilbur Theatre
APR 23 - Burlington, VT - Flynn Center
APR 24 - Portland, ME - State Theatre
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