John Paul Winters from Happy Valley-Goose Bay is a huge fan of Pearl Jam and when he celebrated his birthday by travelling to Ontario to see the band in concert, he got some extra special gifts from the group's lead singer.

During two of the three shows that Winters saw on his trip, he got to sing with Pearl Jam's lead vocalist Eddie Vedder from the front row.

The first concert was in Ottawa on Sunday, where Vedder gave Winters an early birthday gift.

"[I] had a pretty good show," Winters told CBC's Labrador Morning.

"At the end of the show, Eddie Vedder tossed me a tambourine, pointed me out and threw one down to me."

Red wine and a birthday duet

The following morning, Winters drove from Ottawa to Toronto and spent the night in a sleeping bag on the sidewalk, waiting in the general admission line for a show on Tuesday, his birthday. He said it was worth the wait.

"The front half of the floor for the shows are general admission, so the earlier you get there, the better you'll be. We lined up at about five o'clock, and we were about 15th in line then," he said.

Me and him sang the chorus … together. - John Paul Winters

Winters dedication got him to the front row and said that when Vedder came on stage, he recognized him.

"He looked at me while he was singing and I mouthed to him that it was my birthday and he just gave me a little nod that he acknowledged it," Winters said.

"During the song Thin Air, he walked down off the stage and come and stood up on the rail in front of me, and me and him sang the chorus of that together."

John Paul Winters and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder belt out the chorus of Thin Air during a performance at Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Tuesday. (Submitted)

Vedder also tossed Winters another gift from the stage, this time a bottle of red wine.

"His eyes locked with me, definitely. It was an intense moment, absolutely," said Winters.

It was an intense moment, absolutely. - John Paul Winters

The third show Winters attended, again in Toronto, was the last on the Canadian leg of Pearl Jam's North American tour, and he had yet another moment with the Pearl Jam frontman.

"During Evenflow, he tossed me down the mic to sing the chorus to that, so I sang that and threw it back up to him," said Winters.

Even as the band were saying its goodbyes on stage to wrap up the tour, Vedder acknowledged Winters' committed fandom.

"He did say 'bye J.P.' to me on the mic at the end," Winters said.

Luckily, he knows the words to "pretty much all" of Pearl Jam's songs.

'It's a big thing'

Winters has seen Pearl Jam in concert about two dozen times, and the charm still hasn't warn off.

"I've seen them 24 times now. I started seeing them in 1998, so it's a big thing for me. I really enjoy their music, its all I really listen to," Winters said.

"It was something that I was drawn to ... I really really enjoyed that music, and I still do," he said.

"All the new music they make is incredible to me, it still sounds great. A Pearl Jam show is three hours, 30 plus songs of just pure madness, so it's a lot of fun."