Great Big Sea on stage at Edmonds Center for the Arts Oct 18

Edmonds Center for the Arts Welcomes Great Big Sea to the Stage on Friday, October 18th at 7:30pm. (Sponsored by The Sinnetts- Mike, Michelle and Family)

20 years is a long time in anyone's life. Few bands last more than an album or two — a few tours, a song played on the radio, and then they're quickly forgotten. Alan Doyle, Sean McCann and Bob Hallett have somehow managed to keep the dysfunctional-family-bar-room-brawl-student-art-project-musical-pirate-crew known as Great Big Sea going for two decades. And more often than not, they have done it with more than a bit of flair.

For the hundreds of thousands of fans who have sung, danced and celebrated with the band, Great Big Sea has been a constant factor in their own lives. While musical fashions have come and gone, Great Big Sea has maintained an unswerving commitment to their original ideals — a belief that a marriage of their own creativity and the joyous folk music of their home in Newfoundland would be an unbeatable combination.

Time, and their own stubbornness and persistence, has proven them right. Compiled by the band members themselves, XX is a special two-disc set which captures the many highs in a recording career that has produced ten full-length CDs and two DVDs. In order to express the band's two sides, one disc covers the biggest hits from their more pop-oriented repertoire, while the other contains some of their most loved traditional and folk songs. Click Here to listen to their music.

Tickets are available by calling 425-275-9595 or visiting the ECA Box office at 410 Fourth Avenue North, Edmonds, WA 98020.