Great Big Sea singer to appear in movie
Canwest News ServiceMarch 10, 2009; The Star Phoenix
Warner Music announced last week that Alan Doyle,
singer and multi-instrumentalist for the Celtic rock band Great Big
Sea, will play the minstrel Allan A'Dayle in an upcoming film about
Robin Hood. Expected for release in 2010, it will be directed by Ridley
Scott and star Russell Crowe as the legendary English outlaw opposite
Cate Blanchett's Maid Marian.
Doyle met Crowe while the
Australian actor was in Toronto filming Cinderella Man in 2005. The
pair became friends and musical collaborators; Doyle produced and
helped write songs for Crowe's 2005 album My Hand, My Heart and has
played a number of shows with Crowe's band, The Ordinary Fear of God.
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