An entertainer who has done a lot of living, Séan McCann has a gripping story – a hard story to tell - as he puts it. He will be on stage in Virden Aud Theatre, May 6.
A Newfoundlander, McCann spent 20 years singing in the iconic Canadian party band Great Big Sea.
McCann bought his first guitar in 1989 which he affectionately calls “Old Brown”. Old Brown has been around. He was there for the first song McCann ever wrote. Old Brown was there when McCann founded the acclaimed and multi-million selling band that would change his life. Old Brown was there to hold McCann up many a night as he struggled with “a past that is not a prison” anymore.
The old guitar has been there to help guide McCann out of the darkness with music as his medicine.
After exiting the internationally renowned folk group Great Big Sea and publicly admitting a secret past in which he used alcohol to mask the pain of sexual abuse by a priest, McCann stopped lying to himself and found his truth and his own voice.
With the release of his fifth solo album, “There’s a Place”, he continues his journey as a singer-songwriter, and now a sought after speaker and mental health advocate with Old Brown by his side and a simple message: “You are not alone.”
McCann’s tour started on the west coast in Portland OR, and carries on throughout Canada, mostly in cities and some large towns, to end in June on the eastern seaboard of the US.
This performance marks the final act of Arts Mosaic’s Concert Series. Don’t miss “Séan McCann Sings”.
