Babord Amures

The BABORD AMURES sea shanties group

Babord Amures offers a panorama of songs of the sea including both traditional sea shanties and modern songs on this theme, by composers such as Gaston Couté , Graeme Allwright , Pierre Mac Orlan , Michel Tonnerre or Georges Brassens . There are also some compositions of the group and some “shanties” of Anglo-American sailors.

This show of sea shanties is very varied, alternating group arrangements and traditional interpretations (sometimes “a capella”), solo songs and group songs, sea laments to listen to and work songs to respond to , instrumentals and dances, etc. This diversity is further underlined by the fact that the songs are led alternately by one or other of the singers and that the instruments are numerous and varied: diatonic accordion, guitars, banjos, violins, mandolins, lute, acoustic bass guitar, Hawaiian guitar, ukulele, Irish flute, harmonica…

It is as much a concert of sea shanties by the style of the arrangements and interpretations, as an animation insofar as the public can very easily take up the refrains of certain traditional sea shanties . Finally, when the context and the atmosphere allow it, the songs are commented on and the show is interspersed with remarks on life on board.

It is a show for all audiences that adapts to all situations: cabaret evenings, cultural concerts, outdoor shows, festivals or intimate evenings…

[Editor’s note:  this band’s website is older, using a no-longer supported Adobe plug-in that won’t let the viewer access their CD shop!  Hopefully they fix that soon!]