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Overview
Folksinger Gunnar Wiegand – Maritime Folk
Folk singers have always been the guarantors of maritime music being passed on to future generations and always being heard. The folk singer Gunnar Wiegand also stands in this tradition with his maritime folk.
songs from the maritime world – shanties, work songs, forebitters, sea songs, songs about living and working at, with and on the water – and stories behind the songs.
Stories behind the songs, strange, funny, surprising – new and old shanties and seasongs from Germany as well as songs of the English and American tradition. Traditional, old, new.
A capella, with guitar, Thüringer forestzither and more – and of course full vocal engagement.
Performances:
Harwich Shanty Festival 2025, Mevagissey Shanty Festival 2025 & 2024 in Cornwall, Bie Daip Shanty- & Folkfestival Appingedam 2025, 2024 & 2022, Liereliet Shanty & Seasong Festival Workum 2024 & 2022, Kieler Woche 2023, Festival Maritim Bremen 2025 & 2023, Tanz- und Folkfest Rudolstadt 2022, Folk im Park in Bremen 2025 & 2022 und 2023, Folkfest Hamburg, Tonder Folkfest Dänemark, Edinburgh Folk Festival (GB), Folkfest am Ith (Salzhemmendorf), Radio MDR Kultur (Interview and lifesong) – And soon with you?
Wiegand also performs with a new, German maritime music group, What Shall We Do?