Alan Doyle, actor, producer, best-selling author, and lead singer for Newfoundland’s beloved Great Big Sea these past 20+ years, released his third solo album, A Week at The Warehouse, and will embark on a North American tour in support of the album release.

Doyle’s desire was to have an album that sounded and felt like the live show, and A Week at The Warehouse does just that. Lead single “Summer, Summer Night” is a co-write with long-time collaborator Thomas “Tawgs” Salter. Doyle had it in mind to write a Celtic country song about summer nights in Petty Harbour when he was a young adult, playing guitar and singing with his friends around a bonfire on the beach. Then there’s the ukulele and whistling ditty “Beautiful to Me,” also co-written with Tawgs Salter. This one, Doyle says, is a response to an attempt in North Carolina to limit the access trans people have to bathrooms in schools. “I was drawn to write a song that told people on the outside that they were certainly welcome in my place,” Doyle says. “If you’ve got love in your heart, that’s all that matters to me. It’s such a simple little song. It’s gentle. I just want everyone to know that if you feel like you’re on the outside, you’re not on the outside in this group—my arms and doors are open wide.”