Storm Weather Shanty Choir

The Storm Weather Shanty Choir is known for its hefty and inclusive concerts and a mention from a concert in Seattle in 2009 can be descriptive: »The Storm Weather Shanty Choir is like imagine Gogol Bordello singing shanties»

Last year, the band’s six albums were streamed three million times around the world. Since 2010, the band has been on three nationwide tours in Norway, two US-tours and three Japanese tours, in addition to concerts in Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany , England and Scotland.

Former sailboat shipmate Haakon Steinar Vatle founded the Storm Weather Shanty Choir after sailing the seas on the 3-masted steel bark “Statsraad Lehmkuhl”. Haakon Steinar Vatle returned to the island Stord at the western coast of Norway, and gathered a bunch of long-haired rockers, and the rest is history, as they say. The choir is known as a colorful element in both the folk music communities and in more rock-oriented music-scenes alike, and their fun and engaging shows are a definitive must-see for all music-lovers. [Band Web Site]