Overview
Seaweed in the Fruitlocker is an LGBTQIA+ sea shanty choir formed by artist Rhys Morgan; exploring queer motifs within seafaring history and collective performance in marginalised communities through the tradition of shanty singing.
Over recent months the choir have used their lived experience to rework existing shanties and inspire new ones, continuing the tradition of these folk songs being adapted time and again through generations. Queer heritage has been embedded in the process of writing these shanties through depictions of queer experience and historic queer locations, as well as the use of the slang language Polari, which was used widely by the queer community in the 20th century and other communities including sailors in the centuries before. The name of the work is also taken from this language; with Seaweed being a term to refer to a sexually available gay sailor and a Fruit Locker being a cabin on a ship housing gay shipmates.
There are a number of media articles featuring Rhys Morgan and his Seaweed in the Fruit Locker project.
Video
General Information
2022
Yes
Band Members
Angela Piccini Arnet Donkin Anna PartridgeBen DoneyDanny AnnearDawid MajewskiHelen MooreIkenna IbeanusiMelody ChiRalph NelRhys Morgan Sefryn Penrose Bill ReidAli CooperWill Hoskin Malik Dinata
Contact Information
Rhys
Morgan
Plymouth
Devon
United Kingdom