Great Big Sea

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Newfoundland’s Great Big Sea is renowned for drawing together disparate threads of folk and pop music using powerful singing, driving rhythms and soaring melody. Their unique appeal is built by combining the traditional music of their isolated Newfoundland home with a myriad of pop influences. Great Big Sea’s sound is based around four-part singing, which ranges from the sophistication of the Beach Boys to the bellow of sailors’ shanties. Critics have praised “the band’s rich vocal harmonies” and described them as “the best party band that ever picked up a fiddle”. Great Big Sea has just released their seventh record, Something Beautiful (ZOE 2004).