Seamus Eagan of Solas wrote the banjo tune "Vital Mental Medicine," inspired by the book The Endurance, Caroline Alexander's chronicle of explorer Ernest Shackleton.

Ernest Shackleton's Banjo Player - Song from Rustic Roots retreat
Mar 31, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC6yLmnDyl8

Skiing Fiddler; We wrote this original song together about Leonard Hussey, banjo player from the famed Ernest Shackleton expedition to Antarctica at the 8th Annual Rustic Roots retreat in Colorado.