Ticket giveaway: Great Big Sea

March 2, 2010
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Did the Olympics give you a taste for top-tier Canadian folk-rock music?

You can win a four-pack of tickets to see and hear Great Big Sea on March 18 when it treks from Newfoundland to the Vogue. Give a listen to the band here, then create a post, below, naming  your favorite Canadian person, place or thing. I'll pick one winner at random.

For more details on the concert, click here.
 

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  • It's all good
    BeckyMarch 3, 2010 3:51 PM
    Everything Canadian is great, but I'd have to say one of my favorites is Anne of Green Gables and Prince Edward Island.
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  • O Ontario!
    AshleighMarch 3, 2010 4:21 PM
    Why, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, of course! Of many, many fine experiences there, to me one of the highlights has to have been their Duchess of Malfi from three or four seasons ago.
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  • Canadian music...
    LizMarch 3, 2010 7:28 PM
    Some of my favorite Canadians would have to be the Barenaked Ladies. I've been a fan of theirs for years, and they opened me up to a lot of other great Canadian bands...
    including Great Big Sea!
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  • Breathtaking
    MarkMarch 4, 2010 8:16 AM
    The Windsor Ballet.
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  • Canadian....
    HeatherMarch 4, 2010 8:17 AM
    I would have to say Tom Green's a pretty funny guy.
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  • Spin the Black Circle
    Andrew LMarch 4, 2010 8:27 AM
    I enjoy The Vinyl Cafe w Stuart McLean.
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  • Canadian FBOs
    Marsha BMarch 4, 2010 8:28 AM
    My husband is a pilot and says that the FBOs he visit always have very polite and helpful employees. He also rates the Canadian Customs employees very high (much higher than the U.S. Customs people.)
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  • Rush and Gordon Lightfoot
    AdamMarch 4, 2010 8:46 AM
    Although they are from different genres of music, I am a big fan of both the rock band Rush as well as singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot.
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  • It's an experience
    KentMarch 4, 2010 9:04 AM
    Floating on a boat, fishing for walleye on Black Lake while drinking a Labatt's Blue and listening to a little Neil Young. I need a vacation...
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  • Oh Canada!
    KristinMarch 4, 2010 9:14 AM
    My favorite Canadian thing is Jim Carrey!
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  • Mike Meyer
    JenniferMarch 4, 2010 9:24 AM
    Thanks for Wayne and Austin Powers, Canada!
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  • Funny Guys
    annette hargensMarch 4, 2010 9:28 AM
    Both Mike Myers and Jim Carrey are hilarious!
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  • Canada the beautiful
    DianaMarch 4, 2010 9:35 AM
    Glorious lakes and waterways!
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  • PEI
    Erin BeaverMarch 4, 2010 9:37 AM
    Prince Edward Island
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  • Michael Buble
    SusanKMarch 4, 2010 9:37 AM
    Can't get enough of the crooner.
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  • Favorite Canadian
    Arthur PicardMarch 4, 2010 10:15 AM
    Bacon. Just kidding! I have to go with Mike Myers (not the scary one from Halloween). He's very funny. Love the Austin Powers movies.
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  • Barenaked Ladies
    EricaMarch 4, 2010 10:25 AM
    If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you some art...a Picasso or a Garfunkel. Who doesn't LOVE Barenaked Ladies?!? (I mean the musical group, but I'm sure people appreciate the other kind, too.)
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  • So many thing to like
    Jeff BrentlingerMarch 4, 2010 10:27 AM
    But since I must choose on make it Gordon Lightfoot
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  • RUSH an epoch in music
    Sharon CampbellMarch 4, 2010 3:53 PM
    Lou, epoch
    Without a doubt the Canadian rock band Rush is my favorite thing about Canada. Rush has been creating and evolving their music since 1968. Their musical brilliance has influenced masses of musicians worldwide and has been a significant influence to every genre of music as we know it today.
    S.
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  • Oh, Canada!
    KrisMarch 4, 2010 4:15 PM
    Lake of the Woods
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  • Oh Nell Fenwick!
    Beatrice BurstenMarch 4, 2010 4:19 PM
    Dudley Do-right - need I say more.
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  • As If...
    Stutz ArtistMarch 5, 2010 2:18 PM
    Duh...Paul Schaeffer.
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  • Canadian Faves
    sandym1947@gmail.comMarch 6, 2010 12:35 PM
    Lake Louise and the surrounding glaciers near Banff is the most beautiful place on earth. Truly, truly, breathtaking and a piece of heaven on earth.
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  • tickets???
    Rebecca BooneMarch 8, 2010 4:26 PM
    My favorite Canadian would have to be Michael J Fox, not only do I love him as an actor but admire him for his courage and strength!!!!
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  • Music, people..
    Carrie TMarch 15, 2010 8:35 PM
    some of my favorite bands are Canadian (Great Big Sea being high on the list, along with the Paperboys, Glengarry Bhoys, BNL...) and I'm fascinated by Curling as a sport, but I have to say the people. I live in Columbus, OH and the general friendliness of people when I'm in Canada leaves me slightly bemused. The first time someone offered to help me when I was lost I was half expecting them to jump me b/c that's what it's like here. But they were honestly just trying to help. People on the street actually look you in the eye and SMILE!
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