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Alan Doyle at Dakota Jazz Club, Minneapolis (30 Apr 2022)

Alan Doyle Setlist Dream of Home We're Gonna Love Tonight Captain Kidd (Traditional) Come Out With Me When I'm Up ≋ Where the Nightingales Sing Sea of No Cares ≋ We Don't Wanna Go Home Lukey ≋ Anywhere You Wanna Go A Day Without You with Chris Trapper The Old Black Rum ≋ Bully Boys Consequence Free ≋ It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (R.E.M. cover) The Night Pat Murphy Died ≋ 1, 2, 3, 4 -- Encore -- Ordinary Day ≋ Don't Like to Dance ≋ = Great Big Sea song Chris Trapper Setlist The Accident This Time Minnesota F**k It Skin Keg on My Coffin (The Push Stars song) Read More Alan Doyle Newfoundland singer-songwriter Alan Doyle (lead singer of iconic Canadian band Great Big Sea) has sold out his upcoming appearance at the Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant. … Chris Trapper The evening was opened by Hay’s friend and Boston singer-songwriter Chris Trapper, best known as the lead singer of ‘90s group, The Push Stars, who entertained, amused, and enthralled the crowd with his own half-hour set. …

Canadian musician Alan Doyle is so grateful to finally return to the Dakota Jazz Club on Saturday night. He has a residency and will be returning today (Sunday, May 1st) at the Dakota, to finally end his U.S. tour. Why is Doyle so happy? It’s because the show was two or three years in the making. The original show, booked in 2019, was delayed, and rescheduled, and reshuffled, etc. Every time he had to move the date, he thought people were going to want their money back - but they never did! So, it was just a long time coming.

Opening the show was Chris Trapper, who previously co-wrote some of Doyle’s songs. Trapper had a lot of stories to tell. For example, “Minnesota” was inspired about the time he fell in love with a girl from Minnesota… and they broke up the next day… or how “Skin” was his most requested wedding song. It’s a song about “staying in love”, not just about falling in love.

He ended his set with The Push Stars’ song, “Keg on My Coffin”, which he described as a Irish death drinking song. If you haven’t figured it out, Trapper is in the band The Push Stars.

Alan Doyle started his set with a solo, a cappella version of “Dream of Home”, before his band, The Beautiful Band, joined Doyle on stage. The Beautiful Band featured Cory Tetford (former member of Crush) on guitars, Kendel Carson (from The Paperboys) on fiddle, Kris MacFarlane (from Great Big Sea) on drums, Shehab Illyas (from Mir) on bass, and Todd Lumley (from Waltons) on piano / accordion. As you can see, each band members are accomplished musicians, but combined together, they are just amazing.

Songs on Doyle’s were about half Great Big Sea, which is fair enough, as Doyle is their lead singer and songwriter.

In the middle of the set, Doyle asked Chris Trapper to come back on stage for them to play one of Trapper’s song. According to the banter on stage, Trapper never know which song Doyle wants to play. For this night, it was “A Day Without You”.

Once Doyle took out the Irish Bouzouki, it was just, what seemed like a long medley of Great Big Sea songs, but with R.E.M.’s cover of “It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” thrown in for good measures.

If you like Great Big Sea (one of the longest touring band in the world), if you like Irish pub songs, if you like traditional folk songs… you’ll love a typical Alan Doyle show.

Alan Doyle will play the Dakota Jazz Club again on May 1st.

Remaining tour dates:

May 1 2022 Minneapolis, MN @ Dakota
Jun 14 2022 Charlottetown, PE @ Confederation Centre
Oct 24 2022 Basel to Amsterdam @ Alan Doyle Trio
Nov 2 2022 Düsseldorf, DE @ Savoy Theater
Nov 3 2022 Hamburg, DE @ Fabrik
Nov 4 2022 Rotterdam, NL @ LantarenVenster
Nov 6 2022 Eindhoven, NL @ Muziekgebouw
Nov 8 2022 Munich, DE @ Technikum
Nov 9 2022 Aschaffenburg, DE @ Colos Saal
Nov 10 2022 Berlin, DE @ Heimathafen Neuköelln
Nov 11 2022 Worpswede, DE @ Musichall
Nov 12 2022 Duffel, BE @ Cinema Plaza
Nov 14 2022 Darmstadt, DE @ Central Station
Nov 15 2022 Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg
Feb 15 2023 Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
Feb 16 2023 Clayton, NY @ Clayton Opera House
Feb 17 2023 Barre, VT @ Barre Opera House
Feb 18 2023 Boston, MA @ City Winery Boston
Feb 19 2023 Boston, MA @ City Winery Boston
Feb 21 2023 Portland, ME @ Aura
Feb 22 2023 Holyoke, MA @ Race Street Live
Feb 23 2023 Concord, NH @ Bank of New Hampshire
Feb 24 2023 New York, NY @ Sony Hall
Feb 25 2023 Port Washington, NY @ Landmark on Main
Feb 26 2023 Philadelphia, PA @ City Winery
Feb 28 2023 Annapolis, MD @ Rams Head on Stage
Mar 1 2023 Washington, DC @ City Winery C
Mar 2 2023 Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre
Mar 3 2023 Richmond, VA @ Tin Pan
Mar 4 2023 Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theatre
Mar 5 2023 Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle
Mar 7 2023 Ponte Vedra, FL @ Ponte Vedra Music Hall
Mar 8 2023 Ocala, FL @ Reilly Arts Center
Mar 9 2023 Clearwater, FL @ Bilheimer Capitol Theatre a
Mar 10 2023 Boca Raton, FL @ The Funky Biscuit
Mar 11 2023 Bonita Springs, FL @ Centers for Arts Bonita Springs

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Alan Doyle at Dakota Jazz Club, Minneapolis (30 Apr 2022)

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Colin Hay at Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis (04 Nov 2017)

Colin Hay Setlist The Last to Know Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan cover) Little Red Corvette (Prince cover) I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You Who Can It Be Now? (Men at Work song) Down Under (Men at Work song) Frozen Fields of Snow Beautiful World Looking for Jack Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles cover) Maggie Come Tumblin' Down Overkill (Men at Work song) Waiting for My Real Life to Begin Next Year People Chris Trapper Setlist Into the Bright Lights The Accident This Time Away We Go Skin Keg on My Coffin (The Push Stars song) Tour Dates 11/15/2017 Los Angeles, CA Largo 01/31/2018 Fortitude Valley, The Tivoli 02/01/2018 Tweed Heads, Twin Towns Showroom 02/02/2018 Thirroul, Anita's Theatre 02/09/2018 Bendigo, Ulumbarra Theatre 02/10/2018 South Bank, Melbourne Recital Centre Read More Colin Hay Colin Hay’s new album Fierce Mercy is due March 3rd on Compass Records. Expect to hear some of those songs on his upcoming Pantages Theatre show in Minneapolis. …

After forty years of making music, touring the world in a top-selling group, and re-inventing himself as a singing, songwriting, storytelling troubadour, Colin Hay still remains a man at work. 

The Scottish/Australian/American (who officially became a US citizen last year) ex-Men at Work vocalist brought his show to the Pantages Theatre in downtown Minneapolis for a captivating two-hour solo set.

The evening was opened by Hay’s friend and Boston singer-songwriter Chris Trapper, best known as the lead singer of ‘90s group, The Push Stars, who entertained, amused, and enthralled the crowd with his own half-hour set. 

Opening with ‘Into the Bright Lights’, Trapper then self-deprecatingly told the story of getting two songs into a recent Pierce Brosnan move called Some Kind of Beautiful… only to have it close quickly and disappear into home video.  His biggest solo success may be ‘This Time’, from the 2009 movie August Rush… though it was sung by the actor in the movie, so most don’t know it was his song. 

Trapper switched to the ukulele (“it takes a big man to play a small guitar”, he joked) for ‘Away We Go’, written for his parents’ 50^th wedding anniversary, and ended his short set with the Push Stars’ ‘Keg on my Coffin’, dedicated to the recently resurrected polka bar Nye’s for his take on a classic Irish drinking song.

After a brief break and in workman-like fashion, Colin Hay emerged on a mostly bare stage, taking off his jacket and dutifully hung it on a neighboring coat rack (the only stage prop), strapping on one of three perched guitars, to begin his headlining set. 

The new album is Fierce Mercy (Compass Records) and expands on Hay’s live show, known for its intimate and confessional nature; and in fact, many of the song introduction stories this night, would be longer than the tunes themselves (not that anyone minded).

After the opening ‘The Last to Know’ Hay expounded on his childhood days in Scotland, the influence of his father, the church, and formal school, and his reaction to first hearing Bob Dylan, seguing into his version of ‘Like a Rolling Stone’. 

A touching tribute to Prince followed, with Hay playing a bare ‘Little Red Corvette’, saying nothing additional, which showed the best kind of musical respect.  “Now, Replacements!” someone shouted out after hearing the two Minnesota covers. 

Musing about the benefits of having one name (like Sting), Hay next went into ‘I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You’ from the platinum-selling Garden State soundtrack – (“mine went… mahogany!”, he joked about his 1998 solo album Transcendental Highway, from where the track was first found).

Going back into his catalogue (“to remind you what show you came to”), Hay spoke about the beginnings of Men at Work’s first hit, ‘Who Can It Be Now?’, playing large venues with Fleetwood Mac, and calling the forty minutes it took to write the song, “well spent”.

‘Down Under’ would follow, with Hay recalling first playing the song in Western Australian bars over the noise and corner jukeboxes, and being flown back over to perform it at a recent rugby match. 

Once Hay stopped drinking, he found himself with a lot of additional time, finding himself more productive and the appropriately titled ‘Looking for Jack’ was born from his first time meeting actor Jack Nicholson.  

The Beatles were Hay’s primary musical influence growing up (watching them on shows like Ready Steady Go) and he played them a fine tribute with a George Harrison cover, mentioning it would all come full circle, later becoming part of Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band for several tours.

The new album’s opener, ‘Come Tumblin’ Down’ became an audience choral sing-a-long, ‘Overkill’, perhaps Hay’s favorite song from that era, was played with the same passion as thirty years prior, and the show closed with two of Hay’s most personal and hopeful songs, ‘Waiting for My Real Life to Begin’ and ‘Next Year People’.  

Bowing to the crowd and taking his jacket from the coat rack, Colin Hay had finished his musical shift to rave and standing applause and another more than satisfied group of customers for the night, even meeting and signing in the lobby following. 

The Man at Work continues his Fierce Mercy tour with one last West Coast show, before returning Down Under in 2018, to re-connect with the audience and land that would eventually bring him worldwide fame.

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Colin Hay at Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis (04 Nov 2017)

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