*squeal!*

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Great Big Sea is coming to Baltimore in February! Yay!

Great Big Sea hove in Long Beach, ha, me boys...

Oh, this is so cool.

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For geekchick's nostalgic amusement, continued

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The opening act was a very good Australian guitarist, whose name I've forgotten. Great Big Sea finally went on at about 10:30, opening with "Ordinary Day". They definitely picked up steam quickly, and seemed very happy that the place was so packed. We found out *why* there were so many people there at one point when Alan Doyle said: "We're really close to Washington, aren't we?", and a woman with the huge group that had come in all at once yelled out: "We're from the Canadian embassy!" What this meant was that the audience was a weird mixture of really big Great Big Sea fans and people who hadn't heard anything they'd ever done. A *very* enthusiastic crowd, though.

The band was very silly -- describing Newfoundland as "the Hawaii of Canada", for example. Alan Doyle also couldn't resist cracking a couple of political jokes. At one point he started playing "Don't Mess around with Jim", and when he got to the last line of the chorus, he changed the words to "you don't mess around with ... a 21-year-old intern and expect to get away with it." This elicited cheers. (I wasn't sure how to take that.)

Anyway, they were fantastic. I haven't enjoyed a Great Big Sea show that much since the first time I saw them from the front row at a folkfest workshop. The best thing about the show (aside from actually being able to see them) was probably the fact that they did some of the quieter a capella numbers they haven't been able to do recently due to screaming teenage girls. It was the first time I'd heard "The Chemical Worker's Song" live, for example, since their show in Red Deer a year ago.

After the show was over, I asked the bar owner if I could have one of the concert posters, and he gave it to me. As we were leaving, I noticed that Alan Doyle was standing outside the bus talking to some folks. I asked him to sign it as a remembrance of that crazy thing I'd done in coming all the way to Washington to see them. He said: "It's Jennie, right?" I said: "With an I-E". And he wrote: "To Jennie. Edmonton --> Arlington!", and signed it. It's hanging in my office now.

I went back to Chris's apartment very happy. :-)

-nostalgicJ