BAY CITY — Music was in the air Thursday as Bay City's Tall Ship Celebration got under way. The start of the four-day festival also meant the beginning of the Maritime Music Festival, which features ...
Sea shanties have survived for centuries, far beyond the golden age of seafaring. A lot of them have strong ties to New England’s maritime culture, especially the culture built around the whaling ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Sometimes a sea shanty isn't just a sea shanty. With "The Ship," the heralded ...
If you’re on TikTok, the go-to app for Gen Z and millennials, you probably spent early January humming catchy nautical tunes while washing never-ending dishes or doomscrolling while you wait for pizza ...
From Wellerman to Drunken Sailor, sea shanties are attracting the attention of landlubber TikTokers. "It went wild. I don't really know what happened," says the guy at the center of it all. Erin ...
To get to the bottom of the mystery, we reached out to the singers themselves and a sea shanty expert (yes, you read that correctly), who said there's actually a few different reasons why the work ...
It started on Dec. 27, when a Scottish singer named Nathan Evans posted a song on the video sharing app TikTok. Gazing sternly into the camera and beating his fist rhythmically on the back of a guitar ...
When I woke up last Friday morning, I realized I had several messages. All of them were links to a TikTok video of several guys singing a song, a sea shanty from the 19th century called “Wellerman,” ...
The Exmouth Shanty Men of Norfolk, England warm up with a crowd at the Maritime Festival in 2019. Shutterstock / Stephen William R You’re welcome — for the tune you won’t stop humming for the rest of ...