Canadian music icon Alan Doyle has unveiled the music video for the breezy, whistle-laced charmer “Take It Easy With Me”(LISTEN / WATCH), a track from his upcoming EP Already Dancing, out February 20 (PRE-ORDER/SAVE). The video finds Doyle performing in a sun-drenched setting, surrounded by drinks, dancing and an easygoing spirit that mirrors the song’s spontaneous origins. The lyrics came together rather quickly when Doyle was in the Dominican Republic to perform a concert.
“We went for three days to play one show and I soon took to the margaritas and built the best argument I could to try to get my fair lady to come with me for the next two days,” says Doyle. “That song is exactly that. That’s it. I don’t usually write songs quickly, but I wrote this one in about 45 minutes.”
Doyle will begin a 48-date North American tour on February 27 at home in St. John’s, Newfoundland, wrapping May 17 in Edmonds, Washington. Joining Doyle on all Canadian dates is the JUNO-winning PEI folk duo The East Pointers, with Brooklyn indie-folk-pop-Americana outfit Bandits on the Run set to support the U.S. leg.
When you’re as busy as Alan Doyle, you create music whenever and wherever you can. So, it’s not shocking to hear that his six-song EP, Already Dancing, was recorded in six studios across five cities in two countries – especially considering that last year may have been the busiest of his more-than-three-decade career.
With Already Dancing, Doyle and his collaborators recorded wherever they happened to be. Featuring five original songs (including the foot-stomping first single “Nancy,” with The East Pointers) as well as Doyle’s version of the 1986 Spirit of the West classic “The Crawl” (with the band’s legendary co-founder Geoffrey Kelly on whistle and vocals), Already Dancing took shape in: St. John’s, Newfoundland; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Charlottetown, PEI; and Santa Monica, California, before Doyle brought the whole team together at the National Music Centre in Calgary to finish it off.
Doyle’s CV is extensive: founding member of Great Big Sea, a best-selling author, a film and TV actor-producer with multiple major credits, including starring in the wildly successful musical Tell Tale Harbour. Yet the wildly popular musician from Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, remains most electrifying before a live audience, abetted by his ace band.
“I am the luckiest guy in the world,” Doyle says. “It’s such a privilege to stand among those players on stage.”
2026 ALREADY DANCING TOUR DATES:
February 27 St. John’s, NL JAG Soundhouse
February 28 St. John’s, NL JAG Soundhouse SOLD OUT
March 3 Halifax, NS Light House Arts Centre
March 4 Halifax, NS Light House Arts Centre
March 5 Halifax, NS Light House Arts Centre
March 6 Halifax, NS Light House Arts Centre
March 7 Moncton, NB Casino New Brunswick
March 8 Saint John, NB Imperial Theatre SOLD OUT
March 10 Ottawa, ON National Arts Centre
March 11 Kitchener, ON Centre In The Square
March 12 Kitchener, ON Centre In The Square
March 13 Montreal, QC L’Olympia
March 14 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
March 15 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
March 17 Thunder Bay, ON Community Auditorium
March 18 Winnipeg, MB Centennial Concert Hall
March 19 Saskatoon, SK TCU Place
March 20 Regina, SK Conexus Arts Centre
March 21 Edmonton, AB Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
March 22 Calgary, AB Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
March 24 Trail, BC Charles Bailey Theatre
March 25 Vancouver, BC Orpheum
March 26 Kelowna, BC Community Theatre SOLD OUT
March 27 Victoria, BC Royal Theatre
March 28 Victoria, BC Royal Theatre
April 21 Brownfield, ME Stone Mountain Arts Center
April 22 Brownfield, ME Stone Mountain Arts Center
April 23 Boston, MA The Wilbur Theatre
April 24 Newport, RI Jane Pickens Theater
April 25 Nashua, NH Center for the Arts
April 26 New York, NY City Winery
April 28 Sellersville, PA Sellersville Theater
April 29 Alexandria, VA The Birchmere
May 1 Buffalo, NY Buffalo State Performing Arts Center
May 2 Detroit, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
May 3 Pittsburgh, PA City Winery
May 5 Cleveland, OH Music Box
May 6 Chicago, IL Athenaeum Center
May 7 Madison, WI Atwood Music Hall
May 8 St. Paul, MN Fitzgerald Theater
May 9 Omaha, NE Holland Performing Arts Center
May 10 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater
May 12 Phoenix, AZ Musical Instrument Museum
May 13 Phoenix, AZ Musical Instrument Museum
May 14 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
May 15 Novato, CA HopMonk Tavern
May 16 Portland, OR The Aladdin Theater
May 17 Edmonds, WA Edmonds Center for the Arts
