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The Stew is very proud to present  Mr. Alan Doyle.
Singer. Songwriter. Actor. Author. And now a recipient of The Order of
Canada.

Add to that Mr. Doyle is releasing his third solo album having spent a week
at the Warehouse Studios in Vancouver’s Gastown with one of the planets best
producers Bob Rock. Strangely they decided to call the album A Week at the
Warehouse.
Alan was supported by his band The Beautiful Gypsies.
The tunes are off-the-floor fantastic.  Played live and straight up honest.
It’s a coming out party.
He’s just announced a 50 city  “Come out with me tour”  with The Fortunate
Ones in Canada and Donovan Woods in the US. It starts in Seattle Jan 15th.
(Canadian dates below)
Also, the Pride of Petty Harbour Nfld is releasing his next book for Pete
sake. A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere picks up where his
2014 memoir Where I Belong left off.  It’s about his first tour of Canada,
a place he’d only ever heard neighbors and family talk about.
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This Saturday we will spend 30 minutes inside the Warehouse on the last day
of recording talking to Alan Doyle and  Bob Rock.
We’ll  play you never before heard new tracks including Somewhere in a Song
which is based upon a chapter in Where I belong about what would happen in
the Doyle house when they ran out of fuel in sub-zero temperatures.  Instead
of seeking shelter elsewhere, they would throw blankets on the windows..turn
on the electric oven, take off the oven door and play music. With family and
friends. As Bob Rock says “I needed Alan to bring in a song that was only
for him and a piano. It’s the sign of a great singer if they can hold the
song and audience with just their voice.”  He sings the song like it’s the
last one he’ll ever sing.

Saturday on The Stew
5-7 Mtn on The CKUA Radio Network. Province-wide in Alberta  www.ckua.com
8-10 Pacific on Roundhouse Radio 983 Vancouver  www.roundhouseradio.com
www.mulliganstew.ca
A Week at The Warehouse Canadian dates:
February 20 – Peterborough, ON – Showplace Performance Centre
February 21 – Kitchener, ON – Centre In The Square
February 22 – Kingston, ON – The Grand Theatre
February 23 – Montreal, QC – Corona Theatre
February 24 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
February 25 – Ottawa, ON – National Arts Centre – Southam Hall
March 4 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre for the Performing Arts
March 6 – Saskatoon, SK – Broadway Theatre
March 7 – Regina, SK – Casino Regina Show Lounge
March 8 – Edmonton, AB – Winspear Centre
March 9 – Calgary, AB – Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
March 10 – Vancouver, BC – The Centre in Vancouver
May 1 – Fredericton, NB – The Playhouse
May 2 – Saint John, NB – Imperial Theatre
May 3 – Moncton, NB – Casino New Brunswick
May 4 – Halifax, NS – Halifax Marriott Harbourfront
May 5 – Halifax, NS – Halifax Marriott Harbourfront
 

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RAW Interview Found Here:  Alan Doyle RAW
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WHERE I BELONG
From Small Town to Great Big Sea
 
by Alan Doyle
with a foreword by Jann Arden
 

“Funny, wise and self-deprecating, this book is hard to put down.
Alan is a truly great storyteller and his life in a small Newfoundland fishing village is a story dying to be told.”  Jim Cuddy

 As a founding member of Great Big Sea, Alan Doyle is widely recognized as one of contemporary music’s most gifted singer/songwriters. For over twenty years, Great Big Sea has taken its unique blend of rock, folk and Celtic music from the shores of Newfoundland to the far corners of the world. During that time, the band has amassed a string of gold and platinum albums, while its high-energy live shows have earned legions of devoted fans across Canada and around the globe.
“I am from Newfoundland,” says Alan Doyle. “Therefore, I am a bit of a storyteller. The stories of Newfoundlanders are often confused with fairy tales and the stuff of fiction; the people, places and events in them seem exaggerated or outright weird….[but] truth really is stranger than fiction.” This fall, Alan Doyle takes readers behind the music for a nostalgic and revealing look back at the great adventure that was his childhood. On October 20, 2014, Doubleday Canada is proud to publish WHERE I BELONG: From Small Town to Great Big Sea.
 “When I was a boy, I had no idea. About many things. I knew a few facts, here and there, but I was absolutely sure about very little. I had more questions than answers. I was more curious than certain.” So begins Alan Doyle’s heartfelt coming-of-age memoir. A Newfoundlander, a Catholic (and an altar boy), a lover of music from an early age, and a lone MontrealCanadiens fan in a household devoted to Gordie Howe and the Detroit Red Wings, Alan was a “Petty Harbour dog, through and through.” Located south of St. John’s, Alan’s hometown of Petty Harbour was once a thriving fishing village of approximately 500 inhabitants. It was the kind of place where a “young fella could go weeks without seeing or meeting a person that he hadn’t known for his whole life.” Against this backdrop, Doyle grows up, buoyed by a larger-than-life assortment of family members, friends and neighbours, all of whom contribute to creating a young songwriter and world-class performer-in-the-making.
As a child, young Alan learned from his parents the importance of hard work and the value of a dollar. The second son of Tom Doyle, local musician by night and orderly at the local psychiatric hospital by day, and Jean Doyle, a gifted piano teacher, Alan was born into a family steeped in love and music. The family home was a two-bedroom house with no running water and a beef-bucket for a toilet. There was no family car, meals were stretched for a family of six, and clothes were hand-me-downs. Yet the family lacked for nothing. “We made something out of nothing. Somehow, on a budget of a few thousand dollars a year, my folks managed to house, clothe and feed themselves and four kids…I’ll never understand how they did it. And I’ll never be able to explain to them how grateful I am that they did.”
In WHERE I BELONG, Alan Doyle chronicles his early years and creates a portrait of small-town Newfoundland that is by turns hilarious and poignant. Along the way, we encounter a tremendous cast of characters, all of whom left an indelible mark on Doyle. We meet Alan’s “Granda” Bernard Doyle, who never forgave Joey Smallwood for surrendering Newfoundland to Canada in 1949; old Frank Brake (with a “face like a catcher’s mitt”), who lived in an abandoned railway car and was prone to mishaps that would kill an ordinary man; “Bottlenose” Bill, a hardened fisherman whose extramarital affairs are the stuff of legend; and tough-as-nails Maureen of the Harbour Grocery, who was always quick with a harsh word and reluctant to lift a finger to help a customer, let alone to assist one of those “bastarding Doyles.”
Doyle’s tremendous gifts as a storyteller recreate a bygone era in Newfoundland’s history. Readers will stalk the wharfs with Alan and his pals as they traffic cod tongues to tourists and to local restaurants, enjoy “out-of-oil parties” where all partygoers congregate in one room to keep it warm when there’s not enough money for heat, and go on death-defying excursions deep into a treacherous gorge in pursuit of abandoned adult magazines.
At its heart, WHERE I BELONG is the story of a young boy of insatiable curiosity who is searching for answers to life’s big questions: What does it mean to be Canadian when you are isolated in the middle of the ocean? Is there a God? And, most importantly, how will I ever get a girl to kiss me?
A generous and touching look at the trials and tribulations of growing up, WHERE I BELONG is a wonderful debut work of non-fiction from a master storyteller and a remarkable Canadian talent
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 ALAN DOYLE is a Canadian musician and actor, best known as a lead singer in the Canadian folk-rock band Great Big Sea. In 2012, Doyle released his first solo album, Boy on Bridge, which made the top twenty on the Canadian Albums chart. Alan lives in Newfoundland.

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