Overview
Jim Mageean and Pat Sheridan are probably the best-known singers of sea shanties and maritime songs in England and Ireland respectively.
They met at a Maritime Festival in France in 1999. Jim sang with the late-great and much missed Johnny Collins for over forty years and Pat occasionally sang with Johnny when he came to Ireland. This resulted in this trio being invited to do a series of Maritime concerts in Gdansk and Gdynia for the Tall Ship Race of 2009. Pat was singing with a Polish group Brasy and after their concert, amalgamated with Jim & Johnny for several concerts, both on shore and on the Baltic. Following their final concert in the ‘Zejman’s Sailors Klub’ near Gdansk, Johnny passed away in the early hours of the morning. Since then Jim and Pat have been singing together internationally and have recorded a predominantly maritime album ‘Hard Aground’ Jim also sings with The Keelers (Newcastle) and Pat sings with Garland (Dublin) and also sang with the Press Gang (Dublin).