Some waterfront songs and versions of shanties peculiar to the San Francisco Area.

Sea-songs, shanties, industrial ballads, drinking songs and folk songs in general. Three part harmony. Concertina accompaniment.
The Baggies have performed at most of the major maritime festivals in the UK and Europe. we toured New England, USA in June 2002. What they say about us: ...I was hit by a wall of sound - terrific harmonies! (Cardiff Bay Maritime Festival) "They'll be back!" Medemblik Festival, Holland.

"A Pound And A Pint" Tape Cassette.
(Black Mountain Records -CBM3092) "Old Swansea Town" CD.
(Old Rope Recordings - ORRCD 01)

There are two recordings available at this site, one of which is all maritime music called David Coffin and the Nantucket Sleighride

Homepage of Hart-backbord-shanties Bremen/Germany

Site is available in English, Dutch, German, and French - with defintions of shanties and lyrics to many songs.

Site "under construction". An archived page from 2014 can be seen at:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140715130018/http://www.shanty.org/

(edited by Will Fly)

Fifteen ballads and shanties from the "Golden Age of Sail" sung by Dan Milner with Louis Killen (concertina), Mick Moloney (mondolin, guitar), Billy McComiskey (accodion), Brendan Mulvihill (viola), Andy O'Brien (guitar), Brian Conway (fiddle) and singers from New York's South Street Seaport Museum. "Shanties, work songs, ballads of emigration and shipwreck... the feel of the fun, hardship and high adventure of a voyage across the western ocean in the generation following the Famine... wonderful acoustic music, no gimmicks, no synthesisers, just authentic voices and instruments, from a crew who are in touch with the tradition..." -Andy Ryan, Irish Music, March, 1999

Sea Music performers, venues, recordings, and whatnot.

website for The Johnson Girls. CD info, news, upcoming gigs

cds High Tides and Low lives Welly Boots and shanties Local crew singing for pleasure and raising money for the local RNLI Lifeboat