John Townley (born 1945) is a musician, astrologer, and naval historian who was a member of the folk...
Groups and Solo Performers
Tireless supporters of the Harwich Shanty Festival, Charlotte and Spong entertained there over the w...
The Secret Shore Singers began life following a Heritage Lottery Funded project, in partnership with...
"We were informed last night that Dom passed away suddenly at work. Dom will be remembered with ...
Graeme’s singing pedigree covers six generations of singers in his family. Graeme’s direct invol...
Colchester based Shanticleer have been singing together for about two years. They focus on sea songs...
Craig Edwards sings and plays fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, and button accordion. He studied Ethn...
Stuns'ls is a small shanty group, who mainly want to have fun and keep alive the heritage of sea sha...
Hailing from the Pennine town of Rochdale, Nicola Beazley has studied on the Newcastle University Fo...
Act of Mutiny is a group of men who make atmospheric maritime folk music, mostly in English, but als...
During the General Members' Meeting on Thursday, March 31, 2022, we unfortunately had to conclude th...
Do you like songs of the sea? Do you love Cornwall? The Press Gang was formed with you in mind!
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During 1988 a group of local lifeboat men and friends formed a sea shanty singing group to celebrate...
For almost 50 years John Roberts has been a mainstay of British folksong in America. Best known for ...
The Hoolies from Wivenhoe are a popular Essex crew who sing an entertaining mix of traditional shant...
There are currently seven members of the crew, three of whom are retired Irish Naval Service personn...
The age of sail brought us the songs of the sea. The working songs of the day eased the stress and e...
Monkeys Fist is the trio of Steve Flude, Colin Devey and John Horsey, performing traditional and con...
Cornish pirate folk punk.
‘’Quitting our jobs to start a pirate band and live our dreams is w...
Will Finn and Rosie Calvert are a folk- and traditionally-inspired musical duo from the North East o...