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Traditional Sea Shanties webpage This is the place where you can meet sea shanties and forebitters sing in an authentic way. Shanties and Sea Songs webpage has lyrics popular among and culled from North American shanty revival performers, and links to albums on which the songs may be heard.
Banana Boat, an a cappella sextet from Poland performing "neo-shanties" as well as traditional sea-shanties in contemporary arrangements; Bounding Main, an a cappella quintet based near Kenosha, Wisconsin; Captain Bogg and Salty, a pirate-themed rock band which performs many traditional shanties, as well as writing several of their own
Sea shanties albums (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Sea shanties" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes
"Rio Grande" is a nineteenth-century sea shanty, traditionally popular amongst American and British crews.Some people believe the title refers to the Rio Grande river, which forms much of the border between Mexico and the United States; but the shanty talks about the Brazilian state Rio Grande do Sul and its chief port of the same name. [1]
Roll, Alabama, Roll" is an American-British sea shanty of the nineteenth century. It is based on the exploits of the CSS Alabama , a sloop-of-war of the Confederate States Navy which enjoyed success as a commerce raider against Union shipping during the American Civil War .
Cooped-up sailors who felt the same way on long ocean journeys broke up the tedium with work songs called sea shanties. TikTok helped sea shanties surge into the mainstream. People began using the ...
Forebitter is an American band with an international following specializing in sea shanties. [1] It consists of four "chanteymen" employed by Mystic Seaport museum in Mystic, Connecticut, United States: Geoff Kaufman, Rick Spencer, David Littlefield, and Craig Edwards. [1] The band has performed throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. [2]
The song belongs in the category of sea ballads, being a song sailors sung during their time off and not while they worked, but is more commonly thought of as a sea shanty. [5] It is well known in American folk tradition as well as European traditions, and the text has appeared in many forms in both print and oral mediums. [6] [7] The ballad ...