Alan Doyle’s Welcome Home Tour, with special guest Fortunate Ones, is set to play at the Capitol Centre on Tuesday, March 18.
Doyle is an actor, producer, best-selling author, and best-known as lead singer for Newfoundland’s beloved Great Big Sea these past 20+ years.
With five solo albums under his belt, Doyle has been touring the world with his ace six-piece band for the last decade.
In late 2014, Doyle released his best-selling memoir Where I Belong, followed by A Newfoundlander In Canada released in October 2017, and All Together now released in November 2020.
Amidst these projects, Doyle found time to write music for and appear on CBC’s Republic of Doyle, guest on CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries, a role in 2014’s Winter’s Tale and 2010’s Robin Hood. With his 2022 live album “Here, Tonight” and a recent JUNO nomination for his 2021 album “Back to the Harbour”, Doyle chalks up a lot of where he is right now to luck.
“I’m the luckiest guy I’ve ever even heard of,” he says. “This was all I ever wanted, a life in the music business, singing concerts.”
Doyle is no stranger to this area, having played at North Bay's Summer in the Park and Mattawa's Voyageur Days.
The high-energy performer told BayToday back in 2016 "I'm not happy unless people leave having the greatest night of their lives. If they leave with wobbly knees I'm happy."
See: Doyle promises "the greatest kitchen party in the world"
"It's all about the crowd for me. I grew up in a place where music was participatory. The greatest kitchen party in the world, that's what I go for every night."
Doyle hails from Petty Harbour, NL, and formed Great Big Sea in 1993 with Sean McCann, Bob Hallett, and Darrell Power, in which they fused traditional Newfoundland music with their own pop sensibilities. Their nine albums, double-disc hits retrospective, and two DVD releases have all been declared Gold or Platinum and have sold a combined 1.2 million copies in Canada.
Watch Doyle perform Welcome Home in the video below.
Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, September 27 at 10 a.m. for $65.
For more information and to purchase tickets go here.
