Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh is a shanty group from North Devon. We sing both traditional shanties, other songs of the sea and a wide variety of folk songs. We are a loose formation of old friends and acquaintances from the Mortehoe and Woolacombe area of North Devon.

We set sail on this journey in 2010 as a way of escaping our domestic duties and to find solace in singing, usually helped along by a pint at a local hostelry (Chichester Arms, Mortehoe, (www.chichesterarmsmortehoe.co.uk)!

Our love of singing has resulted in public performances at many local venues, and others including Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival in 2018 and 2019, Teignmouth Shanty Festival in 2018, 2019 and 2021, two tours of Exmoor with the local ladies Morris Dancers; the ‘Red Petticoats’; performing at the Par Shanty Festival in Cornwall; and appearing at each Ilfracombe Sea Festival (seailfracombe.co.uk).

We regularly raise funds for ‘local’ charities including Devon Air Ambulance, RNLI, and North Devon Hospital Chemotherapy Unit and up to the end of October, 2021 we have contributed over £20,000 to these worthy causes.