Alan Doyle

Doyle worked across actor, singer, songwriter and rock musician. The registers place that work in folk rock. This article rests on 99 catalogued compositions, 9 published texts, 24 issued recordings, 3 digitised documents and 1 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Name — Alan Doyle • Birth Name — Alan Thomas Doyle • Born — 17 May 1969 • Birthplace — Petty Harbour, Newfoundland • Instrument — Singing, mandolin, acoustic guitar, bouzouki, electric guitar, • Genre — Folk rock • Occupation — Musician, producer, songwriter, actor • Years Active — 1993–present • Website — alandoyle.ca, www.greatbigsea.com

Alan Doyle was born and raised in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, in a Roman Catholic family. He attended Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. It is also there that he met Séan McCann, Bob Hallett and Darrell Power with whom he formed Great Big Sea. He primarily plays electric and acoustic guitars, and the bouzouki for live performances, but he has been known to play mandolin and banjo. He is married to Joanne; they have one son. Doyle has also been involved with a handful of stage, television and film productions. As a child, he appeared as an extra in the movie A Whale for the Killing, based on Farley Mowat's book of the same name, which was filmed in his hometown. He has also hosted regional arts awards shows in Atlantic Canada, appeared as a presenter on the Juno Awards and done a turn onstage in his hometown's "24-Hour Musical" performance of Grease. In 2005, he composed music for the CBC comedy Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, which stars Mary Walsh. In 2006, he worked on scoring the film Young Triffie's Been Made Away With, directed by Walsh. • Illustration — Russell Crowe & Alan Doyle Doyle has been linked to Russell Crowe and his bands 30 Odd Foot of Grunts and The Ordinary Fear of God, having produced and co-written several songs on Crowe's album, My Hand, My Heart, and played several shows with Crowe. In 2011, they released The Crowe/Doyle Songbook Vol.III with nine songs in both acoustic demo and finished format, for 18 tracks total. This friendship also led to Doyle's casting as Allan A'Dayle alongside Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Durand, and Scott Grimes in Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, released May 14, 2010. He played Dingy in the film Winter's Tale, also with Crowe and Durand, as well as Will Smith and Colin Farrell. He collaborated with Law & Order music composer Mike Post and wrote and performed a song named "Middle of Nowhere", written for the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Broad Channel". Doyle has guest starred on five episodes of the CBC Television series Republic of Doyle as the character Wolf Redmond. Season 2, episode 2 introduced him as an inmate sent to prison on charges of B&Es and a few robberies. Doyle guest starred with Russell Crowe, Kevin Durand, and Scott Grimes on the first show of Republic of Doyles third season after the four had costarred on Robin Hood. His third appearance – the second with Grimes – was on season 4, episode 6. Both Grimes and Doyle appeared together twice more in season 5 and 6. He appeared in an episode of Murdoch Mysteries tenth season. In 2012, Doyle released his first solo album, Boy on Bridge. The title is a nod to Doyle's credit as the "boy on bridge" in the movie A Whale for the Killing, when he was a young boy. The first single from the album is "I've Seen a Little" and the album features collaborations with Canadian musicians Hawksley Workman, Jim Cuddy, Ron Hynes, and actor-musician Russell Crowe, among others. The video for the second single, "Testify", was nominated for a 2012 Juno. The creation of the album was captured by a film crew, resulting in a documentary also named Boy on Bridge directed by Joel Stewart and John Vatcher. Doyle, with Great Big Sea, was featured on Canadian country artist, Dean Brody's 2012 album titled Dirt, singing on the track "It's Friday". In 2014, Doyle released a book entitled Where I Belong, about his youth growing up in Newfoundland and Labrador. Doyle's second solo album, entitled So Let's Go, was released January 20, 2015. In 2017, he guest starred in a Murdoch Mysteries episode, "A Murdog Mystery" as a man who claims to be a time travelling historian. Doyle reprised the role in the web series Beyond Time. Doyle's third solo album, A Week at the Warehouse, was released on October 13, 2017. His second book titled A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home, was released on October 17. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine, Doyle started remotely collaborating with several Newfoundland-based artists to create a special "isolation edition" EP entitled, Songs from Home, which was released in November 2020. Contributing artists included Fortunate Ones, Rachel Cousins, The Ennis Sisters, and The Once. Per Doyle, Songs From Home is all about making and keeping connections at a time when it was so difficult to be connected. On June 14, 2022, he began starring in a musical comedy called Tell Tale Harbour at the 2022 Charlottetown Festival. The story is based on the screenplay La grande séduction by Ken Scott that was made into the 2003 award winning film Seducing Doctor Lewis. Doyle was co-writer of the production as well as co-writer of music and lyrics with Bob Foster. Also credited as one of the authors for a book of the musical with award-winning writer Edward Riche. Doyle, with Keith Power, writes the music for the Canadian comedy series Son of a Critch, for which they have received Canadian Screen Awards nominations for Best Original Music, Comedy in 2023 and 2024.

• Title — Details — Peak chart positions • CAN — US Heat — US Folk • Boy on Bridge — * Release date: May 16, 2012 * Label: Universal Music Canada — 11 — 37 — 20 • So Let's Go — * Release date: January 20, 2015 * Label: Universal Music Canada — 13 — — — — • A Week at the Warehouse — * Release date: October 13, 2017 * Label: Universal Music Canada — 26 — — — — • Welcome Home — *Release date: February 9, 2024 * Label: Skinner’s Hill Music, Warner Music Canada — — — — — — • Already Dancing — *Release date: February 20, 2026 * Label: Skinner’s Hill Music, Warner Music Canada — — — — — — • "—" denotes releases that did not chart

• Title — Details — Peak chart positions — Sales • CAN • Rough Side Out — * Release date: February 14, 2020 * Label: Skinner's Hill — 2 — *US: 400 • Back to the Harbour — * Release date: May 21, 2021 * Label: Skinner's Hill — — — —

• Year — Single — Peak chart positions — Album • CAN Country • 2012 — "I've Seen a Little" — — — Boy on Bridge • "Testify" — — • 2014 — "So Let's Go" — — — So Let's Go • 2015 — "The Night Loves Us" — — • 2017 — "Summer Summer Night" — — — A Week at the Warehouse • "Bully Boys" — — • 2019 — "We Don't Wanna Go Home" (featuring Dean Brody) — 43 — Rough Side Out • 2020 — "What the Whisky Won't Do" (featuring Jess Moskaluke) — — • 2023 — "Welcome Home" — — — Welcome Home • 2025 — "Hey Moon (A Campfire Song)" — — — Songs from the Gang

• Year — Single — Artist — Peak positions — Album • CAN Country • 2017 — "Soggy Bottom Summer" — Dean Brody — 18 — Beautiful Freakshow • 2020 — "A Tennessee Whisky and a Newfoundland Song" — Various — — — Songs From Home • "It's OK" (isolation edition) — Various — —

• Year — Video — Director • 2012 — "I've Seen a Little" — Margaret Malandruccolo • "Testify" • 2013 — "My Day" — Shehab Illyas • 2015 — "So Let's Go" — Margaret Malandruccolo • "The Night Loves Us" — Shehab Illyas • "1,2,3,4" (with Ed Robertson) — Sean Smith/Joel Stewart • 2017 — "Summer Summer Night" • 2018 — "Beautiful To Me" — Steph Young • 2020 — "It's OK" (Songs from Home) (with Fortunate Ones, Rachel Cousins, The Ennis Sisters, and The Once) — Alan Doyle • 2021 — "Back Home on the Island" — Cody Westman

Alan Doyle was born on 17 May 1969 in Petty Harbour–Maddox Cove. Doyle held the nationality of Canada. Doyle was educated at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Doyle worked as actor, singer, songwriter and rock musician. Doyle was active from 1993. The fields Doyle worked in include folk rock. Doyle played the guitar and the voice.