Darren & Mo spoke with Alan Doyle about his new book, “All Together Now: A Newfoundlander’s Light Tales for Heavy Times“

He describes it as a book of random short stories that are funny and self-deprecating – some from his childhood, some from touring around the world, some from fatherhood…every chapter starts with kind of a scene in a pub and then it leads into a story from there. Being off the road, he’s spent more days at home than he has since he was a child. He misses the crowds and companionship of performing. He misses gathering at the pub, where one yarn follows another so quickly, “you have to be as ready as an Olympian at the start line to get your tale in before someone is well into theirs already.”

All Together Now is a pub gathering in book form – all designed to put a smile on your face.  Stories include:

  • Adventures in foreign lands, including an apparently filthy singalong in Polish (well, he would have sung along if he’d understood the language)
  • A real-life ghost story involving an elderly neighbour
  • A red convertible and a clown horn
  • Meeting Anne Murray at a Grey Cup party
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