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Ladies and Gentlemen: The Original Irish Descendants

Posted on August 9, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Arts & Culture, Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Travel & Leisure, Web Exclusives

Reuniting for Come Home ‘22 celebrations during Churchill Park Music Festival, the original members of The Irish Descendants do a little sea-side reminiscing
Gathering in the boardroom turned photo studio at The Newfoundland Herald on Logy Bay Road, the original members of The Irish Descendants take a moment to pause

Tags: Bob Hollett, Churchill Park Music Festival, Con O'Brien, D'Arcy Broderick, Great Big Sea, Juno, Larry Martin, Ronnie Power, The Original Irish Descendants, trad

A Majestic Reopening

Posted on May 11, 2022
By Herald Staff
on Arts & Culture, Business, Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Theatre, Web Exclusives

By: Russell Bowers
It’s one of the few flat-iron style buildings in the world and yet, there it sits, unused, on the corner of Duckworth and New Gower streets in downtown St. John’s
The place known as the Majestic Theatre was built in 1919 and found prominence as a political

Tags: Bob Hollett, Great Big Sea, music, No Change in the Weather, Russell Bowers, St. John's, Terra Bruce Productions, The Majestic Theatre, theatre, venue

Thank You, Great Big Sea!

Posted on May 9, 2022
By Herald Staff
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

Below is a copy of a message sent to The NL Herald

I have been unable to send a heartfelt thank you to the members of Great Big Sea in these days of Twitter and Facebook. I first heard GBS listening to Canadian Forces Radio when I was stationed

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25 Years of O’Reilly’s Part I: Rollicking Good Time

Posted on March 7, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Arts & Culture, Business, Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

O’Reilly’s Irish eyes are smiling even more brightly than the lights above the bar as Brenda O’Reilly opened up about the last 25 years and her love of all things Irish ahead of St. Patrick’s Day
She looks every bit the Irish maiden, and standing behind the bar she founded

Tags: 25 Years, Alan Doyle, anniversary, Brenda O'Reilly, Great Big Sea, Irish, local, music, O'Reilly's Pub, pub, Ron Hynes, Ryan's Fancy, Sailor Danny, Shanneyganock, St. Patrick's Day

Tell Tale Harbour

Posted on January 10, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

Don’t dare tell Alan Doyle he can’t, because he most certainly will! The musical Tell Tale
Harbour, based on the screenplay The Grand Seduction finds one of NL’s own not only co-writing the musical but starring in the lead role this summer in P.E.I.
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The Confederation Centre of the

Tags: Alan Doyle, Atlantic canada, Charlottetown Theatre Festival, Great Big Sea, music, Newfoundland and Labrador, PEI, Tell Tale Harbour, theatre

SING TO ME, SHANTYMAN

Posted on October 16, 2021
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

Séan McCann the Shantyman of Great Big Sea fame, has gone on to some great things as a solo artist – from author to philanthropist – but finding his way back to the Shanty just might be the best news ever

Séan McCann might call Ontario home right

Tags: Alan Doyle, Fergus O'Byrne, Great Big Sea, Newfoundland, Pam Pardy, Sean McCann, Shantyman

MUSIC | Derina Harvey Band

Posted on October 13, 2021
By Dillon Collins
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

Proudly waving the flag of traditional Newfoundland trad music with an edge, the Derina Harvey Band tackle weighty themes on their newest material
You can take the woman away from The Rock, but you can’t take The Rock away from the woman.
Derina Harvey, and her bring-the-house down band of merry

Tags: Alberta, art, Derina Harvey Band, Great Big Sea, local, music, Newfoundland, trad

PEOPLE | In Conversation With Alan Doyle

Posted on August 23, 2021
By Dillon Collins
on From The Archives, Music, Web Exclusives

The multi-talented Alan Doyle talks light at the end of the pandemic tunnel and a return to the stage at the Iceberg Alley Performance Tent this September

What does a traveller do when travel is impossible? You adapt.
That was the case for the worldly wonder that

Tags: Alan Doyle, Great Big Sea, Interviews, music

MUSIC | Alan Doyle talks Iceberg Alley, Breaking into the U.S. and Great Big Sea

Posted on September 12, 2018
By Dillon Collins
on From The Archives, Music, Web Exclusives

Ahead of his performance at the second annual Iceberg Alley Performance Tent on September 15th with Shanneyganock and Celtic Connection, Alan Doyle sits down with The Herald, first detailing his immediate impressions of the impressive circus-inspired venue that has taken Quidi Vidi by storm

“I could not

Tags: Alan Doyle, events, Great Big Sea, Iceberg Alley, music