The group is open to all ages, genders, voices and ability levels. Shanty singing doesn't require people to read music, just a willingness to show up and sing parts in unison. Shantyman Paul Webster, ...

On a sweltering summer day in mid-July, over 120 strangers crammed into an Irish pub with pints of Guinness in hand to sing an unusual tune for a landlocked state: a sea shanty. The big picture: For ...

You won’t need a press gang to compel hundreds of people to attend a sea shanty sing-along with musician Seán Dagher. Dagher is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger, and he has become a ...

Explore the roots of Sea Shanties in African American, English, and Irish cultures as we sing together, learn the roles shanties played aboard ships, and journey across both the High Seas and the ...

Go, read about it go: People are stuck at home, toiling away, getting bored, going stir crazy. Cooped-up sailors who felt the same way on long ocean journeys broke up the tedium with work songs called ...

THE Acapella Fellas, Ilkley’s lively all-male a cappella choir, are on the lookout for new voices to join their weekly dose of fun and harmony.

People on the internet are obsessed with "sea shanty TikTok" after a song called "The Wellerman" went viral. A sea shanty expert says the song isn't really a sea shanty because it's not in a call and ...

ROCKFORD, Mich. (WOOD) — Visitors to Rockford’s Kent District Library branch can sing along to some Midwest sea shanties with a Grand Rapids folk musician July 16. Ben Traverse, a musician and member ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — There once was a tune that tickled the Internet’s fancy/When TikTok revived the humble sea shanty/The views came fast, the fad could last/Go, read about it go: People are stuck ...

Nathan Evans was working as a mail carrier when he uploaded his cover of an old whaling tune. Now he has a folk-inspired album of his own songs, which he promises people can still “sing in the car.” ...