What Shall We Do

What Shall We Do – The Hannover Shanty People.  Another shantychor?  No!

When they started singing shanties in April 2018, they already knew that this rather unusual music is a fascinating cultural form, even outside of sentimental maritime hits.

Far away from the ship’s piano and Frisian fishermen’s shirts, they take their audience back to long-forgotten world of the large sailing ships with their very well-harmonized voices, supplemented with well-founded background information.

When ships were still made of wood, sailors were made of iron.

It used to be said:  one good shantyman replaces ten people on a line!
Today, it is true:  one good shanty replaces 1,000 pop songs on an iPod!

In the program:

• the songs from the “old times” – shanties, forebitters and sea songs
• stories of hard work at sea, of fish, and tar
• stories of Heuer and of girls in the harbor
• stories of poor food, hunger and disease
• stories of longing for home on land
• seamen’s yarns and anecdotes

Songs for sailors and landlubbers!