Rum Soaked Crooks

The Rum-Soaked Crooks, a vocal and instrumental trio consisting of Tom Goux, Dan Lanier, and Jacek Sulanowski, entertain throughout southeastern New England and beyond with music of the sea and shore.

Tom Goux, a music educator in Cape Cod schools for 30 years, also served as a program coordinator for the Schooner Ernestina, and Sandwich Heritage Museums and Gardens. Tom founded and directed the Falmouth Mostly all-Male Men’s Chorus, sang in the Chatham Chorale’s Chamber Singers, and established the New Bedford Harbor Sea Chantey Chorus. He also leads the five-voice a cappella group Notescape, singing close-harmony jazz standards.

Dan Lanier, a singer and instrumentalist, took a fancy to sailor songs as a youngster. After college, he joined Mystic Seaport Museum’s education department as a musical interpreter. There he served on the outdoor demonstration squad and directed the Sea Music Festival. Later, his career in environmental engineering took him to the Caribbean where he met several chantey-singing whalers, with whom he embarked on tours to the US, the Netherlands, and France.

Jacek Sulanowski has sung for his supper in many a port and concert venue for nearly 50 years. Holding a doctorate in paleontology, he has taught earth sciences at Bridgewater State University and conducted research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Jacek served on the Board of Overseers of the Kendall Whaling Museum in Sharon, Massachusetts. Since retirement, Jacek has devoted much of his time to geological field trips and the search for new musical material for the Crooks.

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