Bob Hallett is a founding member of Canadian folk-rock band Great Big Sea and continues to play with them today. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of Folk music and rock music. Great Big Sea (often shortened to GBS) is a Canadian Folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic
Hallett was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on May 23, 1968, making him the only native St. St John's (ˌseɪntˈdʒanz French Saint-Jean) is the provincial capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and located on the eastern tip Johnsman in Great Big Sea. Born to a musical family, Hallett learned to play the saxophone while in school, and taught himself guitar and tin whistle while a teenager. The saxophone (commonly referred to simply as sax) is a conical- bored transposing Musical instrument considered a member of the Woodwind The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles The tin whistle, also called the tinwhistle, whistle, pennywhistle or Irish whistle, is a simple six-holed Woodwind instrument He would later learn to play both the accordion and the fiddle. The accordion is a portable box-shaped Musical instrument of the hand-held Bellows -driven free-reed aerophone family sometimes referred to as a Squeezebox
Hallett attended Memorial University, where he met Séan McCann, with whom he founded the Newfoundland Republican Army, an 8-man musical group. Memorial University of Newfoundland, (colloquially known as Memorial University or "MUN") is a comprehensive university located primarily in St Séan McCann (born May 22 1967, Carbonear Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) is a Singer and Musician (playing Bodhran After this group collapsed, he and McCann founded a pub act called Rankin Street. After the band's split-up in 1993, it evolved into Great Big Sea, in an attempt to bring more of a Newfoundland sound to their music.
Hallett has also produced a handful of recordings by other musicians, including Vince Collins's "Lifting Out the Stove," and Shanneyganock's "Fling out the Flag". He has also produced an album for the Moncton-based band, Banshee, and Janelle Dupuis, another Moncton based artist.
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