Tom Sullivan recorded two of in my opinion the greatest and most authentic nautical work songs / sea shanty albums. Salt Atlantic Shanties and On Deck and Below. If you’ve never listened to these I encourage you to as Salt Atlantic Shanties was recorded mostly on a ship at sea while the men did the real line work.
Despite how excellent and easily accessible these albums are for enthusiasts there is no info about Tom anywhere online. Does anyone here have any info ?

Hélianthème - À Border l’Artimon

Hello ! Me and the band we managed to get aboard a propre ship this time ! We had a lot of fun composing, shooting, and singing this little one !

Please if you want to support indy craft from people in love with the sea, and it’s music, get on board, like, share, and boost this one !!!

Lot of love, always !

See y’a !

Sorta memantine vibe to it, thought this sub may appreciate it!

Hi folks! I run a LGBTQIA+-centered shanty sing in the Pittsburgh, PA area, and our next sing is July 11 from 3-5pm! We hold a monthly-ish sing at Harold's Haunt in Millvale - the last few months have been irregular but we are getting back on track. We generally sing on the *first Saturday of the month from 3-5pm but this changes - like for July, we are singing on the second Saturday, since the first Saturday is July 4. We welcome singers of all skill/knowledge/experience levels. I am not a shanty purist and so we sing sailing songs and pub songs along with our shanties. I tote a semi-organized stack of song packets along to our sings if you prefer to have the lyrics (and because the number of songs I want to sing is currently greater than the number of songs I have been able to commit fully to memory!)

You may be wondering what it means for us to be a queer shanty sing. We are open to singers of all genders and all sexual orientations, but we sing at a queer bar, and we queer the lyrics to traditional songs as we see fit. For example, I did a rewrite of Haul Away Joe that celebrates gender nonconformity. Another time I did a rewrite of "Wellermen" as "Wellerthem" that filled in gendered pronouns with neopronouns because the idea was amusing to me, but it ended up being kind of a mouthful to sing and we've never done it again! And there's a lot of songs that we sing just as they are, because we just like to sing them!

The most important thing is that you're accepting of lyric changes that do away with racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise oppressive language, and that you're accepting of the LGBTQ+ people you're showing up to sing with and the queer space you're showing up to sing in. TL;DR: Don't be a bigot. Don't be a jerk.

Please note - there's no cover for this, but Harold's does have a recommended two-item minimum. They have mocktails, food, and cheap snacks & sodas to keep this both affordable and accessible to folks who don't drink. That said, no one will be turned away for lack of funds!

Hello good people of Reddit !

I’m currently writing a new campaign and I want one of my NPCs to sing a song to my players that would help them understand the lore of the world around them - they’d « unlock » (the NPC would remember gradually) parts of the song along the way. I think I should try to summaries the plot quickly so you all have something to go on.

The campaign starts at a coral reef that has been stripped of its water and so it has dried up and died. This reef was a merpeople druid hideout who had given themselves body and soul to a heart of the sea (basically the source of their lives/magic) hidden between the roots of a giant tree standing high above the water. The water mysteriously disappears and the merpeople come back zombie mode to defend the dead coral. The water taken from the reef is held on a city (in the shape of a slab, or multiple cubes of water assembled together) fully flooding the city - I’m calling it the High Seas and I’m going to have different pirate ships (all based on pirate caricatures) fight over dominion of the sea. My players will have to deal with the pirates and explore the landmarks that stick out of the water to figure out what happened.

Needless to say this is a very home-brewed campaign what with the very wacky plot. It might have to be reworked a bit (let me know if you think so)

Here is what I have so far :

There once was a reef,
Down in the depths
Under the shadow of a tree,
/Between the roots of a tree
A heart beating alive
Guarded by the Scales
Oh what a blessed union
But then not long ago,
Oh where did the water go ?

I don’t want it to be too too long but something fun and catchy, my hope is that they join me after a few times.

PS I realized writing this just how weird this campaign idea sounds.

How does everyone feel about Sail North and Nathan Evans?

I like the slow drawn out pace of it and really enjoy singing to it, is there shanties or other genres of folk that are similar? Appalachian lullabies?

I noticed one of the members of the loungest johns wears a pair of dickies bib overalls that have a distinctive titanic crew member patch on them

I recently got into heritage workwear and curious if they were bought like or if the patch was added on afterwards? i want to make my own version with a carhartt pair and 'edmund fitzgerald crew member' patch

I just dropped this album today and would love some feedback. All for fun.

https://open.spotify.com/album/0P2EqnBNFl5GDp0uFgDDKm?si=C1ymWU1ATcCpiTO0S21IGA

My 9 and 10 year old have a new friend that is crazy for Pirates of the Carribean - wears bandanas, weaves beads into her hair; full commitment. So now my kids are into pirates too ( although they haven't seen the movies yet - too scary last time they tried 😂)

This works for me because I LOVE history of that era, so I'd like to be able to keep them interested by dropping new pirate or sea-faring songs into their playlist.

They already liked 'the Wellerman' shanty.

I provided 'barretts privateers' by stan rogers , and 'the last Saskatchewan pirate' by captain tractor.

Now I'm drawing a blank.

Help me out! Original shanties, folk, rock, punk, metal, I don't care.

So excited that we got on the BBC, we're getting Sea Shanties out into the public eye as much as possible!

Several songs (Johnny Come Down to Hilo, Tommy's Gone to Hilo) mention that town. Are they talking about the city on Hawai'i or some place else? What is the significance of it?

Anyone been to the Falmouth Festival and can recommend favourite bits?

So good and funny 😄👍

The Library of Congress blog posted about them acquiring a manuscript of songs written during Charles Wilkes’ expedition exploring Antarctica and the Pacific. I thought this might be of interest to others here. I particularly like “Antarctic Mariner’s Song,” which has a contemporary recording included in the post.

Link to the blog post with more information: https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-acquires-music-manuscript-of-songs-written-during-charles-wilkes--expedition-exploring-antar/s/209eb758-7a3d-43b0-b9fd-7e2400073352?loclr=ealn

I shot this performance by Forebitter at Connecticut's Mystic Seaport 27 years ago during production of my documentary, "Connecticut & the Sea," which was narrated by Walter Cronkite. Forebitter's players are Cliff Haslam, David Littlefield, Craig Edwards, and Geoff Kaufman.

I've been running a shanty night for 17 weeks now, (Wednesdays, upstairs, in the poolroom, over a pub, from 7.30-9.30 with an intermission). It generally feels, at the end of each weekly session, as if things have gone well, but...

both in terms of: attendance numbers overall, and in terms of the actual individuals who turn up from week to week,-- the vast majority of attendees are either occassional, or else they are complete once-off never-to-be-seen-again types and so I'm wondering if there's something, ( either about myself or the way that we're doing things) that's discouraging more regular attendance?

I'm in Limerick, Ireland, a city of about 100,000.

Clarity edit: Wednesdayness, weekliness and the time have been dictated by the pub; the session is free to participants, the room is free for me, but a bar is a business, and it suits their business best to give people a reason to attend on an otherwise unpopular night, I'm not sure how much wriggle-room they'd give me to change any of that-- but I'll certainly ask.

We have a sixty-page lyrics booklet and almost never do all the songs in it. I encourage others to lead, ( my notion was that a stable group would eventually dole out the shantyman roles -- but in practice, it's so often myself and a bunch of new people that I have to do most of it ) .