Great Big Sea Brings Folk-Rock to Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Carpenter Performing Arts Center, CSULB (6200 Atherton Street Long Beach, CA 90815)
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- $35.00
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- $17.50*
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The last date listed for Great Big Sea was Saturday March 19, 2011 / 8:00pm.
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2 Goldstar Member Reviews
francis
This band is very talented and energetic. Although Carpenter Center doesn't lend itself to dancing like HOB or Galaxy, the band is amazing and will get you off your feet. They outshine Mumfrd and Sons, who somehow got very popular and alot of airplay for similar but lesser quality folk-rock. Funny dialogue between songs and lyrics are meaningful...ok...some are just FUN!Written on May 20 2011
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if you are looking for a professional live band with unique sound, look no further than great big sea. they put on a high-energy concert, the music has a lot of depth and fun rhythm. great story tellers and jokesters in between songs. seems every member of the band plays multiple instruments. very talented guys, original sound. i'm the newest member of their cult following :)Written on Apr 02 2011
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http://www.carpenterarts.org/1011-great-big-sea.html
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For fans, Great Big Sea 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 St. John’s rowdy pubs, where co-founders Sean McCann and Bob Hallett met while playing Newfoundland folk songs for boisterous crowds made up of hard-partying university students and off-duty fishermen. In 1993, after meeting fellow socio-holic and pub stalwart Alan Doyle, they started Great Big Sea in an attempt to create a new approach to Newfoundland folk music, one that combined their original music with the traditional sounds and instruments they had grown up with. In 2002 drummer Kris MacFarlane joined the band, and a year later bass player Murray Foster came aboard.
Their latest album, Safe Upon the Shore, reflects the newest twists in their original plan. The album is a feast of creative impulses, recorded in fits and starts over a six-month period. Some of it was recorded in New Orleans with producer Steve Berlin, while other songs were recorded at the band’s studio in St. John’s. The band used guerilla setups to record the rest of it on tour buses and in various dressing rooms.
“A lot of this was recorded straight onto Alan’s laptop, as soon as we had the ideas,” says Sean McCann, singer and bodhran player. “As for the rest, for a long time we wanted to record somewhere with a vibe, somewhere with an atmosphere that might seep into the songs themselves. There is nowhere on the continent, really, that has more of a vibe than New Orleans.”