We walked west through City Hall Plaza and down Tremont Street to the theater. Our seats were located behind a low bulkhead which gave us an unobstructed view of the band and a place to rest our pints.
Great Big Sea is hard to categorize. They perform original music, Celtic songs, Newfie folk songs, 80's covers...and on and on. The five musicians play acoustic and electric guitar, bouzouki, drums, bass, bodhran, accordion, harmonica, organ, fiddle, pipes, and whistles. Their followers know the songs by rote; they sing and dance to the wild ones and fall silent for the acappella numbers.
I've always enjoyed the traditional songs the most, but this concert featured several songs form the new album Fortune's Favor that I felt were stunning, including "Dream to Live" and "Walk on the Moon". A traditional ballad called "England" gives Sean McCann a chance to show off his remarkable tenor.
The clip below is a couple of years old, but "Mari-mac" remains a highlight of every GBS concert.
4 comments:
Impossible to sit still while listening to this music...wonderful stuff!
Comments!!Comments!! Yay! Well I need to see this band, why don't come to the Dublin Irish festival?? The Saw Doc's skipped this yea and I am ashamned to say I have not seen them this year at all!! Guess that makes up for the three times I saw them in '06. I recently read the "the cure" quote somewhere. Can't remember where, old age I guess...lol.
M.
Shouldn't it be John, Paul, Kevin, Mark, and me?
No, because the parenthetical expression refers to the subject pronoun.
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