The following article in The Telegram in St John's made the announcement that Sean McCann was leaving Great Big Sea. I am currently looking through fan photos from the Great Big Sea XX tour of Sean McCann to form the basis of a photo essay. (no copyright infringement intended).
Sean McCann leaves Great Big Sea by Tara Bradbury published in The Telegram in St John's on November 15 2013. (No copyright infringement intended)
Sean McCann has announced he will leave Great Big Sea at the end of the band’s 20th-anniversary tour.
McCann posted messages on his Facebook and Twitter accounts early Thursday afternoon. Sean McCann of Great Big Sea said Thursday he will be leaving the band “with nothing but love in my heart.”
“This will be my last tour with GBS and I fully intend to enjoy every f--ken second and leave the stage with nothing but love in my heart,” he wrote. “So come out to say goodbye and save the last dance for me.”
McCann, who was in Orillia, Ont., Thursday night for a Great Big Sea concert, declined to say anything further about leaving the band when contacted by The Telegram, but said he'd comment in the new year.
The band was flying in the afternoon to Orillia, Ont., where they performed Thursday night.
Great Big Sea was formed in the mid-1990s with fellow musician Darrell Power, who left in 2003 to spend more time with his family.
The band grew to become one of the province’s biggest exports and, a year ago, released “XX,” a greatest hits compilation celebrating their 20-year career, available with a DVD. The collection took two weeks to go gold.
McCann, like Doyle and Hallett, has a successful solo career, and has released two records: 2010’s “Lullabies for Bloodshot Eyes” and 2011’s “Son of a Sailor.” He told The Telegram last year, while promoting “XX,” that he wasn’t ready to give up playing music.
“I’ve got some sore hips and sore knees, but the energy and passion is still there,” he said, laughing.
According to Great Big Sea’s website, the band will spend the next six weeks playing around Ontario and the eastern region of the United States before finishing the current leg of their tour at Moncton’s casino on New Year’s Eve.
Tbradbury@thetelegram
Sean McCann leaves Great Big Sea by Tara Bradbury published in The Telegram in St John's on November 15 2013. (No copyright infringement intended)
Sean McCann has announced he will leave Great Big Sea at the end of the band’s 20th-anniversary tour.
McCann posted messages on his Facebook and Twitter accounts early Thursday afternoon. Sean McCann of Great Big Sea said Thursday he will be leaving the band “with nothing but love in my heart.”
“This will be my last tour with GBS and I fully intend to enjoy every f--ken second and leave the stage with nothing but love in my heart,” he wrote. “So come out to say goodbye and save the last dance for me.”
McCann, who was in Orillia, Ont., Thursday night for a Great Big Sea concert, declined to say anything further about leaving the band when contacted by The Telegram, but said he'd comment in the new year.
The band was flying in the afternoon to Orillia, Ont., where they performed Thursday night.
Great Big Sea was formed in the mid-1990s with fellow musician Darrell Power, who left in 2003 to spend more time with his family.
The band grew to become one of the province’s biggest exports and, a year ago, released “XX,” a greatest hits compilation celebrating their 20-year career, available with a DVD. The collection took two weeks to go gold.
McCann, like Doyle and Hallett, has a successful solo career, and has released two records: 2010’s “Lullabies for Bloodshot Eyes” and 2011’s “Son of a Sailor.” He told The Telegram last year, while promoting “XX,” that he wasn’t ready to give up playing music.
“I’ve got some sore hips and sore knees, but the energy and passion is still there,” he said, laughing.
According to Great Big Sea’s website, the band will spend the next six weeks playing around Ontario and the eastern region of the United States before finishing the current leg of their tour at Moncton’s casino on New Year’s Eve.
Tbradbury@thetelegram
