2025 Obit: Garry Walker (HogEye Men)

Subject: 2025 obit: Garry Walker (HogEye Men)
From: GUEST,James E
Date: 01 Aug 25 - 06:59 AM

From the HogEye Men's Facebook page:

"It is with great sadness that we must announce the passing of our beloved Garry Walker.
Our hearts are with his family at this time, and especially with his wife Pauline.
Garry was a loyal friend, a steadfast shantyman, and he touched the lives of countless people up and down this nation with his easy smile and his clear, rousing voice.
We'll miss you Garry
Goodbye my darling/
Goodbye my dear-o/
Bold Riley-O has gone away"

Garry was a wonderful singer, a lovely man and a writer of some very fine songs (Fifty Years a Sailor) as well as some very silly ones (Bound for Transylvania and his Mike Waterson parody, Nicking Cod from the Freezers in Iceland). He'll be badly missed around the London scene and shanty festivals.