Great Big Sea, from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, fuses the long history of traditional music from Newfoundland, with modern pop and rock in a crowd-pleasing mix that's both vital and heartfelt. This band will make you stomp your feet--they're a force of nature, like the maritime environment that inspired their name. Great Big Sea's sound blends acoustic and electric guitars with instruments like the mandolin, bodhran, fiddle, bagpipes, and concertina, and they play both Newfoundland standards and original tunes with irresistible group-vocal choruses. That was Great Big Sea's "Ordinary Day" you heard on the CBC broadcasts of the Stanley Cup playoffs (or at the Hockey Hall of Fame). You may not be able to make it up to St. John's for screech and cod, but an evening with Great Big Sea is the next best thing! The band is coming to Michigan with a brand-new album, "Safe Upon the Shore," on which they say they're going to "voyage a little further from their signature Newfoundland-inspired sound."