Chris Roche

Chris Roche was the founder of The Shanty Crew.  He spent many years performing with Dominic Dowsey-Magog as The Shanty 2.

Maritime singer historian at Cape Horners IACH

Chris Roche has been singing shanties for probably more years than he cares to remember being a founder member of The Shanty Crew on the Cutty Sark back in 1973. He has a huge love for the sea and shanty tradition and an extensive knowledge of the subject but is certainly not just an armchair shantyman having sailed many times on tall ships and been around Cape Horn several times. This year he will be giving a talk about tackling that particular challenge from the East.

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Chris edits the Journal of the IACH the International Association of Cape Horner’s for that group of people who have voyaged under sail alone to reach Cape Horn he gives a number of illustrated talks on his voyages in square rigged traditional sailing ships to the Southern Oceans, and other of his maritime explorations these, at times include shanties and sailor songs which Chris learnt from his mentor the late Stan Hugill the last British sailor-man to sing these old songs for the purpose of work at sea.