HFA Presents Alan Doyle
WITH SPECIAL GUEST FORTUNATE ONES
Live at Deerhurst – March 21, 2025
Presented in partnership with the Huntsville Festival of the Arts
Deerhurst Resort – Legacy Hall
This is an all ages event
HFA Presents Alan Doyle. It’s not exactly unrecognizable as an Alan Doyle record. But Welcome Home, Doyle’s fourth full-length solo studio album and 20th overall — counting live releases, EPs, and the blockbuster, million-selling catalogue he created with his acclaimed former folk-pop group Great Big Sea — is proof positive that the friendly fellow from Petty Harbour, Newfoundland still has a few aces up his sleeve.
About Alan Doyle’s New Album
Expect the unexpected from Welcome Home, Alan Doyle’s fourth full-length solo studio album and 20th overall. While upholding his status as a perennial merrymaker — a reputation burnished by his years with acclaimed folk-pop combo Great Big Sea — the new album also finds the multifaceted singer songwriter and 14-time JUNO Award nominee exploring novel sonic terrain.
Alongside marquee co-writers Jimmy Rankin, Donovan Woods, and Hollywood actor Oscar Isaac (yep, of Star Wars fame), Doyle presents nine original songs that are both typically buoyant and surprisingly intimate, what Doyle refers to as “the lower and slower: the lower part of my vocal range and the slower songs. I’m letting myself do that for the first time on this record,” which he cut in Montreal with producer-engineer Marcus Paquin. Doyle’s CV is extensive — he is a thrice-published author, a film and TV actor-producer with multiple major credits, and the co-producer of the recently released, 20-song Ron Hynes tribute album, Sonny Don’t Go Away. Yet the wildly popular musician from Petty Harbour, Newfoundland remains most electrifying before a live audience, abetted by his ace band. “I am the luckiest guy in the world,” Doyle says. “It’s such a privilege to stand among those players on stage.”
About Fortunate Ones
Fortunate Ones is a contemporary folk duo from Newfoundland. Celebrated for their harmony-entwined songs of hope, resilience, and the human condition and their joyfully disarming live shows, they have toured relentlessly, bringing their open-hearted performances to thousands of people across North America and beyond.
Catherine and Andrew have been busy since the release of their debut album The Bliss in 2015 – thousands of miles, hundreds of shows, award winning albums and scores of fans have all been hallmarks of the success the duo has experienced since their humble beginnings in St. John’s. The Bliss was nominated for a Juno Award and landed two #1 singles on CBC Radio 2’s Top 20.
On their sophomore album Hold Fast, the title track hit #1 on the CBC Music Top 20 Chart. The album also took home three Music NL Awards in 2018, was nominated for four East Coast Music Awards, and the 2019 Canadian Folk Music Award for Vocal Group of the Year. To date, songs from Hold Fast have over 16 million streams on Spotify.
Fortunate Ones released That Was You and Me in 2022 and embarked on the Anchor’s Up Tour with The Once and Old Man Luedecke across Canada. The single “Heavy Heart” was nominated for the Single of the Year Award at the 2023 Canadian Folk Music Award and the album was nominated at the Junos in the Contemporary Roots Album category. In May 2023, the album won the ECMA for Folk Recording of the Year.
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