Overview
The Jenny Lind Inn, 69 High Street, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3EW holds a weekly shanty session hosted by Completely Scuppered Shanty.
“Tis that time again where we raise the anchor and set sails to another shanty singing session with our local crew Completely Scuppered Shanty. Grab yourself a beer and sing along by scanning the QR codes for the song sheets that are dotted around the bar.
Come along and join in with the friendly (and slightly bawdy) group or just listen and drink in the nautical atmosphere!
The sessions are held from 20.30 until 22.30, where they sing a variety of shanties and sea related songs. Some of them well known and others more obscure. We encourage audience participation and guest singers. They have a repertoire of nearly 300 shanties and work songs, fore bitters, plus new material and parodies, and provide a small amount of chorus sheets, plus a QR code that downloads a copy to your phone.
Serious shanty sessions in Hastings began in September 2010, with the first session at The Stag Inn. After some months of practise the Hastings Shanty Singers were formed , an eleven strong group who performed at local festivals around Sussex and Kent, although not appearing at formal shanty festivals.
In August 2015 a change of tenant at the Stag saw the session move to its current home at the Jenny Lind.
On The Jenny Lind Inn:
The Jenny Lind Inn is “perfectly located in the midst of the medieval Cinque Port of Hastings Old Town, two minutes’ walk from the beach and the Stade, with its iconic, tall black net-huts and the largest beach-launched fishing fleet in Europe.
The Old Town is essentially a small seaside valley stuffed with Tudor character, crammed with antiques, & crafts and curiosity shops, and packed with Parisienne pavement cafe culture.
Note: Jenny Lind, often called the “Swedish Nightingale” was one of the moist highly regarded opera singers of the 19th Century.