Thursday 1 December 2016

Alan Doyle And Somewhere In A Song…

"We're the brightest light, on the darkest day-" Alan Doyle on what it means to be a Newfoundlander... 

Congratulations to Alan Doyle for being awarded the Canadian Red Cross, Newfoundland Humanitarian of the Year (2016) award. The gala dinner was held on the 23 November, 2016 at the Convention Centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

The Newfoundland newspaper The Telegram live streamed the gala dinner and a short concert by Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies on Facebook. While I did not watch the awards ceremony, I did watch the fabulous concert by Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies. Thanks to The Telegram for including the fans. 

As the event was live streamed Great Big Sea and Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies fans from Canada and around the world were able to log onto the site, listen and post comments as the awards unfolded. Alan and The Beautiful Gypsies sang some of their new music and some Great Big Sea favourites. Alan sang a beautiful new song called 'Somewhere In A Song' about growing up in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland which was dedicated to his parents Jean and Tom Doyle who were in the audience.   

The Newfoundland and Labrador local news media, the Canadian Red Cross Newfoundland branch and those who attended the gala dinner shared a range of words, thoughts, photographs, videos and congratulations to the winners via social media. While there were lots of social media posts, I have posted a couple of my favourites here.

The first post is from alanthomasdoyle’s official Instagram account with the sponsors and the second post is from Twitter from the speech made by Alan Doyle on what it means to be a Newfoundlander and why he volunteers. The third post is also from Twitter of the Young Humanitarian and Humanitarian of the Year winners together and the final post is The Telegram’s live stream on Facebook.


CBC Newfoundland and Labrador covered the event online with updates on social media and through news articles. They published an article with some nice photographs and is titled “Alan Doyle honoured with Canadian Red Cross Humanitarian award ” by Jeremy Eaton, posted on 23 November, 2016. I have provided a link here and circulated a copy of the article on my Google + page.


The Telegram also published an article about the awards “Red Cross NL honours humanitarian of the year” posted on 23 November, 2016. The article provided links to the Facebook page where the live stream was occurring and recorded. I logged onto Facebook and at the time of the writing of this post they were still available for those interested.  I have provided a link here to the article.


VOCM local Newfoundland News published  “Red Cross Honours Doyle, Ramjattan With Humanitarian Awards” published on 24 November, 2106 about the awards.

I love this quote from the article by Alan Doyle…

“23-year-old Miranda Ramjattan was presented with the Young Humanitarian Award for, among other things, her volunteer work with autistic children. Doyle was very impressed by her long list of accomplishments at such a young age.

Doyle joked "if you had seen me and my brother Bernie and Perry when I was 23 in the house we were living in on Suez Street, we were more likely to get help from the Red Cross than get an award."

I have provided a link here to the article.







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