Great Big Sea Tickets ShowTime Ticket Services specializes in quality Great Big Sea Tickets for all tour venues! 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 including sea chanties, which draw from the Island's 500-year-old Irish, English, and French heritage. The band also performs original material. Our service, selection and competitive pricing are certain to impress you! Showtime Ticket Services has supplied preferred seating and difficult to obtain tickets for all Sports , Theater and Concert Events Worldwide for over 20 years. Great Big Sea tickets continued. Loading...

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Date	Event	Venue	Tickets
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 6:30 PM	2010 Victory Ceremonies  VC012 - Great Big Sea	BC Place Vancouver, BC
Sun, 7 Mar 2010 7:00 PM	Great Big Sea	House of Blues - Houston Houston, TX
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 8:00 PM	Great Big Sea	Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts Salina, KS
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 8:30 PM	Great Big Sea	Slowdown Omaha, NE
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 8:00 PM	Great Big Sea	Majestic Theatre Madison, WI
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 8:00 PM	Great Big Sea	The Vogue Indianapolis, IN
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 7:00 PM	Great Big Sea	House Of Blues - Chicago Chicago, IL
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 7:00 PM	Great Big Sea	House Of Blues - Chicago Chicago, IL
Thu, 29 Apr 2010 8:00 PM	Great Big Sea	Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA

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The band played its first official gig on March 11, 1993, opening for the Irish Descendants at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland. The founding band members included Alan Doyle (vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin), Séan McCann (vocals, bodhrán, guitar, tin whistle), Darrell Power (vocals, bass, guitar, bones), and Bob Hallett (vocals, fiddle, accordion, mandolin, concertina, bouzouki, whistles, bagpipes). Power, McCann and Hallett had already been playing together with a woman named Jackie St. Croix in a band called "Rankin Street." According to Doyle, Rankin Street owned a PA, and he owned a van, which made Great Big Sea "a match made in heaven." They toured nearly constantly for the band's first several years, sometimes traveling as many as 300 days a year.

Power retired from Great Big Sea in 2002 to spend more time with his family. Supporting members of the band include Kris MacFarlane (2002) (drums, accordion, guitar, backing vocals) and Murray Foster (2003, formerly of the band Moxy Früvous) (bass, backing vocals).

The band won the Entertainer of the Year award at the East Coast Music Awards for every year between 1996 and 2000. (In 2001, they decided not to submit their name for nomination in order to allow other bands to compete). They have also been nominated for several Juno Awards, including Group of the Year in 1998 and 2005.

The band has also produced a DVD, Great Big DVD, which was released in 2003 in Canada and the United States.

In late 2005, the band released its long-awaited "traditional" album, The Hard and the Easy, on which they recorded their favorite Newfoundland party songs. The title of the album comes from a line of the song "Tickle Cove Pond," one of two songs on the album about a horse falling through the ice.

On February 9, 2006, the band's tour bus tipped on its side into a ditch on the Trans-Canada Highway about 80 kilometres east of Vancouver. Their driver suffered minor head injuries, but everyone in the band was unhurt.

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