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Musician References
Newly Added Artists
Breitling's
Maritimer Kraftgesang
With devotion and heart blood, the fifteen men sing these old songs and Shanties and inspire the public since 1986.
Under the motto "Maritime Power Song", the songs are performed in such diverse languages as German, Low German, Old Flemish, Russian or French, but mostly in the seafaring language of English.
Nelson's Shantymen
Based in the Burnhams, birthplace of England’s greatest seaman, Lord Horatio Nelson, Nelson’s Shantymen are a diverse group of enthusiasts, driven in equal measure by a love of singing and a desire to keep the tradition of the authentic sea shanty alive. True to the original spirit of the shanty, a major emphasis is placed on the voice and instrumental accompaniment, this is always secondary to the natural sound of men singing to ease the burden of their work at sea.
Artists: # - C
Black Irish Band
When you take Celtic, Spanish, and Italian Music, and mix it up, you get the true nature of the Black Irish. For Twenty-five years this band has created an original sound that no other band has. With over 500 concert performances to date and airplay around the world, the band has kept very busy spreading their brand of progressive folk music to a large audience. Many of the original works written by the band are based on Celtic history.
Bounding
Main
Bounding Main is an American a cappella quintet focusing on traditional sea shanties and maritime music. Formed in 2003, Bounding Main performs maritime music, presenting an "Elizabethan sea dog" look in their costumes and gear as well as informal looks that represent them as a contemporary vocal group.
Capt'n Tor & The Naer Do Well Cads Pirate
Capt’n Tor’s Rowdy Crew has been providing a total-immersion experience to their audiences, with an experiential performance style that engages the audience directly within the show - whether it be all-ages festival shows or bawdy adult pub-style shenanigans – crowds have the feeling that they have traveled back in time to 300 years ago to the Golden Age of Piracy when they encounter this one-of-a-kind pirate Celtic nautical performance style.
The Countrymen
The band was formed at our local, The Countryman Inn near Launceston, which is where the band’s name originates. With a relaxed and light-hearted presentation style, we take the audience on a journey through the history and culture of Cornwall, featuring their own arrangements of traditional and contemporary songs, as well as an increasing amount of their own compositions.
Blackstrap
Yarnspinners
Blackstrap Yarnspinners, the rockin'est hippest bunch of scallywags, rapscallions, and pirates here to sing their way into your ever-lovin' hearts!
Love sea shanties? Who doesn't? Wondered what it would sound like if the pirates and sailors were rock & rollers? WHO HASN'T??? Welcome to a world of Rockin' Rapscallions Boppin' Buccaneers Swaggerin' Scallywags.
The
Captain's Beard
Yarrr! The Captain's Beard be a company o' travelin' troubadours on a quest to bring the finest o' sea shanties and forebitters to the ears of all who'll listen. We play songs of the grog, grot, and grime that comes o' traveling the high seas. Fer all who enjoy the pirates' life let us be yer soundtrack
Chris Ricketts
Internationally acclaimed 21st-century shanty singer, Chris Ricketts returned after a 7-year silence with an album of shanties and self-penned songs called 'Songs In The Key Of Sea'. Widely loved this album and re-booted Chris' love for the genre as he continues to record throughout 2022/23
Artists: D - H
David Coffin
David has performed throughout New England since 1980. His venues range from concert halls and coffeehouses to schools, radio, and museums. He has performed for weddings, birthdays, memorials, festivals, bonfires — you name it.
He is equally adept at firing up a crowd to sing, or at playing music in the background to create an atmosphere (often during the same occasion!). Widely known for his rich baritone voice, and his impressive collection of musical instruments.
Elena Duff
Elena Duff is an Irish singer-songwriter and also visual artist.
Her original music comes broadly under the umbrella of indie folk. Her influences range from 1920s music to jazz, folk, pop, and indie.
Hoy Boy
(Peter Purnell)
Sailing in from Canvey Island in Essex England, Hoy Boy (Peter Purnell) is a young('ish) enthusiastic acapella Sea Shanty Soloist with a passion for Maritime Folk Music and History. Specializing in rousing uplifting shanties from the golden age of sail that will have you joining in with gusto.
The
Dreadnoughts
The Dreadnoughts began to play folk-punk in 2007 with a single goal: to make enough money at shows to cover the cost of shots of Fireball Whiskey at Vancouver’s notoriously seedy Ivanhoe Hotel. 15 years plus, they can boast of six studio albums, two EPs, and hundreds of unforgettable live shows spanning the globe. They’ve blended punk rock and a bunch of European folk traditions with a power and range that few other groups can match. And it’s been a blast.
The Exmouth
Shanty Men
We love a great audience and sharing those great old shanties and sea songs and helping to keep them alive. Happy to travel Europe sharing our shanties.
Artists: I - L
Karliene
After years of wanting to get thoughts from pen and paper, to an old guitar and then out into the big wide world, Toby sat down, recorded a few songs in a small room, and 'Loveridge was born.
Switching between folk-inspired tales of the sea & his beloved Cornwall as well as more contemporary tunes about love, life, loss & redemption, there is always a common theme running through each song.
Loveridge
After years of wanting to get thoughts from pen and paper, to an old guitar and then out into the big wide world, Toby sat down, recorded a few songs in a small room, and 'Loveridge was born.
Switching between folk-inspired tales of the sea & his beloved Cornwall as well as more contemporary tunes about love, life, loss & redemption, there is always a common theme running through each song.
LEVEL
ENCRE
You can tell that we are a new french celtic-rock pirate festive folk band (we call it "Tavern's Rock"), created in 2020, during the french lockdown. Made up of 8 Ardenian's (from Ardennes, France) musicians from all musical backgrounds, our goal is to make people dance, sing out loud and have fun, and give them a want to board with us to share adventures across the seas.
Artists: M - P
Musical Blades
A fearless band of misfit rogues, terrorizing and delighting audiences with a unique blend of hilarity and harmonies. Musical Blades continue to bring their unique brand of “renaissance rock show” to countless renaissance festivals and clubs across the United States and abroad.
Pirates
For Sail
Baltimore's most bilious, barnacle-encrusted band of bilge-rats, a caterwauling crew of crafty cutthroats, and a scurvy swarm of salty sea weasels and tentacles.
Pirates for Sail are highly trained musicians and vocalists who are experts in sea shanties, Irish drinking tunes, and maritime ballads, but we will sing just about anything that strikes our fancy. With but a well-placed song we can rouse your spirits, calm your soul, or bring tears to your eyes with a sailor's lament.
Pyrates!
Pyrates! Are an award-winning sea shanty folk rock band who
will take you on a musical excursion across the oceans themselves as they breathe new life back into sea shanties, traditional songs, old folk favorites, and ballads whose origins have been forgotten and lost in time.
Pat Razket
Ye crew o' Pat Razket be a pirate folk music band from Sweden.
Our shows give you a unique experience and we play our own songs (and sometimes the occasional traditional sea shanty).
Expect people dancing on the tables, gunpowder, smoke and one hell of a pirate party!
Pot of Gold
Shanty Crew
Pot of Gold has gained an enviable reputation for singing traditional, and not so traditional, Shantys and Songs of the Sea, in their own unique style.
Expect a totally inclusive, laid-back, entertaining session, full of great songs, fantastic harmonies, humor, brilliant musicianship, and audience participation - the complete experience that has entertained audiences from Kings Lynn to The Minack Theatre in Cornwall - and many places in between.
The
Pyrates Royale
The original singing pirate band for over 30th years. They specialize in performing nautical and folk songs with an original and comic flair. The group and its members are local celebrities in the Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C. area. Many of their songs are sea chanties, but they also perform other traditional drinking songs and ballads. The band plays at chanty festivals, folk festivals, renaissance festivals, pubs, and taverns all up and down the US East Coast.
Artists: Q - S
Robert Palomo
Robert Palomo is an American-born musician and songwriter with a weakness for salty sea songs and the humble banjo. Lately, he's focused on his own brand of maritime folk music, "New Old Sea Songs" - tunes reminiscent of the traditional classics, but fresh as the ocean breeze.
The Silver
Darlings
We are the Silver Darlings, an all-female sea shanty crew hauling from Southend-on-Sea in Essex. We sing shanties, songs of the sea, and ditties nautical.
Our hometown is steeped in fishing and cockling industries, which has drawn us naturally to sea shanties, the sailors’ working songs. We love the story-telling aspect of shanty-singing and we are passionately committed to ensuring that these songs remain in the public domain and are not lost at sea.
Rusty Cutlass
The world's most notorious pirate band and has played more festivals, corporate and international events than there is time to mention.
If you are lookin' for a one-of-a-kind pirate band then look no further. You want Rusty Cutlass. That's Rusty with an ARRRRRR!!!!
Artists: T - Z
Tir Nan Og
A band-history stretching over 15 years and more than 300 gigs – and still the Bavarian Irishmen are able to reinvent their style. With influences from rock, reggae, and acoustic punk they welcome their fans to the land of everlasting youth. Because that is the literal meaning of “Tir Nan Og”. The sextet has already rocked international stages and is always ready to heat up the crowd with their own form of creative Irish-Celtic- folk-rock.
Wakefire
Do you enjoy the lilt of the Old World with a rockin’ new beat? That’s Wakefire’s bread and butter, but we don’t stop there – we’ll soon have you dancing to our own mix of Celtic Rock, Baroque Pop, Americana, folk rock, and what we have coined Bohemian Cabaret . . . and we’ll add a dash of pop culture for the nerds in the audience because we like you folks.
The Worldwide
Shanty Project
Nothing brings the world together like a familiar song and a community of singers uniting together in chorus.
The shanty scene is a wonderful place with many incredible musicians. This project celebrates them.
Tom Mason &
the Blue Buccaneers
Tom Mason and the Blue Buccaneers are a wild band of Nashville musicians who dress like pirates and play a rollicking mix of piratical sing-alongs, rousing historical rave-ups, afro-cuban tinged ballads, Cajun sea shanties, and bluesy Irish jigs, transforming big festivals, performing arts centers, and urban nightclubs into bustling seaside taverns at the turn of the seventeenth century.
WilliamPint &
Felicia Dale
Prepare for an intoxicating blend of traditional and modern music reflecting the immense vitality of those who live and work on the sea. Pint and Dale’s music fits into the world of modern folk, rock, and popular song, but it’s rich with the myth, narrative, rhythm, rhyme, and lyric associated with the days of the tall ships.