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Sea shanty. A sea shanty, shanty, chantey, or chanty (/ ˈʃæntiː /) is a genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels. The term shanty most accurately refers to a specific style of work song belonging to this historical repertoire.
Barrett's Privateers. " Barrett's Privateers " is a modern folk song in the style of a sea shanty, written and performed by Canadian musician Stan Rogers, having been inspired after a song session with the Friends of Fiddler's Green at the Northern Lights Festival Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario. [1] The song describes a 1778 summer privateering ...
Great Big Sea was a Canadian folk rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year Irish, Scottish, and Cornish heritage. [ 1 ] The band was very successful in Canada, with eleven of their albums ...
A steam donkey, a type of steam-powered winch. The title "Donkey Riding" is thought to reference this type of machine. "Donkey Riding" is a traditional work song or sea shanty originally sung in Canada, Scotland and the Northeastern United States. It has also become popular as a children's song. [1] The earliest written record of the song dates ...
Sea shanty, Contemporary folk. Length. 4:45. Label. Fogarty's Cove Music. Songwriter (s) Stan Rogers. "Northwest Passage" is one of the best-known songs by Canadian musician Stan Rogers. An a cappella song, it features Rogers alone singing the verses, with Garnet Rogers, David Alan Eadie and Chris Crilly harmonizing with him in the chorus.
The band commonly records and perform sea shanties, polkas and klezmer songs, and are also strongly influenced by English Scrumpy and Western music - in particular the West Country bands The Wurzels and the Surfin' Turnips. [4] Their 2009 release, Victory Square, was ranked the 4th-best folk-punk release of 2009 by folk-punk magazine Shite N ...
Sailors heading down the Mississippi River picked up the song and made it a capstan shanty that they sang while hauling in the anchor. [4] This boatmen's song found its way down the Mississippi River to American clipper ships—and thus around the world. [5] The song had become popular as a sea shanty with seafaring sailors by the mid 1800s. [6]
Jim Payne (born c.1955) is a Newfoundland folk singer, best known for performing and recording many of the traditional sea shanties of Newfoundland culture. He also composed the song "Wave Over Wave" with Janis Spence and founded the record label SingSong Inc. Payne was born in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland. He plays guitar, diatonic accordion ...