Alan Doyle on Tour

In 2019, Alan Doyle released the single “We Don’t Wanna Go Home,” a duet with B.C. country star Dean Brody. It’s a title that perfectly sums up Doyle’s career on the road. As frontman for Canadian roots-rock institution Great Big Sea, he spread the beery good cheer from coast to coast and beyond for the better part of 20 years, and since that band’s dissolution in 2013, he’s continued to live up to his well-earned road-warrior reputation as a solo artist. Backed by his reliable support crew The Beautiful Beautiful Band, Doyle delivers a healthy serving of Great Big Sea classics and selections from his three solo albums to date: Boy On Bridge (2012), So Let’s Go (2015) and A Week at the Warehouse (2017). An Alan Doyle show is both an occasion to have a good time and to support a good cause — he’s known to donate proceeds from ticket sales to mental-health and addiction-treatment organizations.

Alan Doyle in Concert

As a singer/guitarist for the rambunctious roots combo Great Big Sea, Alan Doyle helped transform the Newfoundland band from regional pub phenomenon into one of Canada’s most successful and celebrated bands. Between their 1993 formation and 2013 dissolution, the group racked up seven Top 10 placements and 11 Juno Award nominations. And since launching his solo career with 2012’s Boy on Bridge, he hasn’t relented in his lifelong mission to deliver joyously anthemic, pint-sloshing, Celtic-kissed singalongs. But Doyle’s musical pursuits have run parallel to an eclectic acting career that includes credits in such films as Winter’s Tale and Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood. (Fittingly, he’s developed an ongoing creative partnership with another singing actor, Russell Crowe, who invited Doyle to write for his 2005 album, My Hand, My Heart, leading to a full-album collaboration between the two, The Crowe/Doyle Songbook, Vol. III, in 2011.) Doyle’s myriad achievements earned him entry into the Order of Canada in 2017, and he’s reflected upon his charmed life in two bestselling memoirs, Where I Belong (2014) and A Newfoundlander in Canada (2018).