Great Lakes-based shantyman Ben Traverse will lead a free sea shanty singalong at 1 p.m. on April 18, at the Darcy Library of Beulah. This is an opportunity to connect with a centuries-old tradition ...

The Big Mouth Billy Bass and other singing fish were a scourge first delivered to us in the late 90s. [Kevin Heckart] has been teaching them to sing new songs without the tinny sound quality and ...

It's easy to see why "Soon May the Wellerman Come" became TikTok's first viral hit of 2021. This jaunty 19th century earworm, sung so earnestly by a postman with a thick Scottish brogue, is ...

A SINGER who exploded in popularity thanks to his unique sound admits he’s switched up his style. The musician won’t shy away from the genre that made him famous, but he thinks ...

Although there were plenty of fans of their first two records, Picaresque, the third album from the Portland, Oregon-based band The Decemberists, helped make them more of a household name among indie ...

Praised for its excellent intonation and wide palette of vocal colour and described as “one of the best male choirs on the continent” by Oregon Artswatch, Chor Leoni joins Montréal’s La Nef ...

The Orwellermen will be cycling from Ipswich to the Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival which takes place from June 13 to June 15 2025. The group will be raising money for the RNLI, Prostate ...

What the heck is a sea shanty, and why do we care? Well, because these ancient songs of sailors are exploding online, and they are a great way of coping in times of Covid! What did ancient sailors ...

Once a month, hundreds gather to blow the roof off an Ottawa brewery, belting out songs that originated hundreds of years ago on distant seas. The singalong sea shanty night often ends with a ...

Musician Seán Dagher will bring his interactive sea shanty performance to Petersburg next week, inviting locals to join in the maritime musical tradition that has experienced a surge of recent ...