Sir Richard Runciman Terry Dies (18 April 1938)
In 1921, in an obvious departure from his church music, he edited the Curwen edition of ‘The Shanty Book (Part 1)’. The foreword was written by Sir Walter Runciman, . . .
Sir Richard Runciman Terry Dies (1938)
Richard Terry was born in 1864 in Ellington, Northumberland. At the age of 11 he started playing the organ at the local church. Educated at various schools in South Shields, . . .
Stan Hugill Dies (1992)
Stan Hugill (19 November 1906 – 13 May 1992) was a British folk music performer, artist and sea music historian, known as the “Last Working Shantyman” and . . .
Why They Sang
The long and storied history of sea shanties is filled with tall tales and heroic deeds and bitter complaints and silly stories and no small amount of the “not-for-polite-company” . . .