"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Great Big Sea is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 7 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Great Big Sea is rated as a remarkable live performer, with impressive shows that are worth watching. Great Big Sea concert reviews describe live shows and performances as infectious.
Great Big Sea is a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs. The band also performs original material.
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The Orange County Register (USA)
March 6, 2013
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Alan Doyle, left, and Sean McCann, right, kick off Tuesday night’s set. Photo: Kelly A. Swift, for the Register
Canadian folk-rockers Great Big Sea at City National Grove of Anaheim made it clear Tuesday night: No matter what the musical brand, it takes something special for a group that sails mostly below
This is Great Big Sea’s 20th anniversary tour – they had their first gig in 1993 in St. John’s, Newfoundland. It took about a year or two for their music to permeate to Toronto, the centre of the universe, where I lived at the time. But they were different. Their music was positively infectious. I got caught
orraine Hjalte / Calgary HeraldThe crowd was on their feet for the first song as Great Big Sea, with singer Alan Doyle, marked 20 years of being a band with a concert at the Jubilee in Calgary March 14, 2013.
Lead singer Chris Trapper told the sell out crowd that the band came from the home of such band as Aerosmith and The Cars and that The Push Stars wished to follow the tradition of those great bands.
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