Best shanty and sea songs singers now?

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 10:52 PM

I just googled and there seem to be a number about their canoes etc. I can not imagine why there would not be..were they not a sea-faring people?

Here is a nice song..not a sea song..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anlt640NzXI

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 09:56 PM

I don't think you'll find many Maori shanty singers and very few Maori sea songs. The better known ones owe a lot to the popular songs of the period.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 07:58 PM

Aren't the Maori considered some of the best singers in the world? mg

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 07:57 PM

How about some Hawaiaans? Must be some...

I think someone mentioned Poland..they love shanties there.

How about Russia?

Denmark? mg

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 07:49 PM

Well, Tom Lewis has lived in Canada for decades....

For Holland/NL, Nanna Kalma

Kitty

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,warren fahey
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 07:34 PM

Thanks to all - some great suggestions - keep 'em coming.

Okay - so far we have we have suggestions from USA, Oz, New Zealand, Ireland and England.

Is Canada represented?
Scotland?
Netherlands?
anything similar in Finland, Sweden etc?

Warren Fahey

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,Tinker from Chicago
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 05:50 PM

Here's a vote for Pint & Dale's former partner, now a soloist: Tom Lewis of Vancouver, BC.

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 05:15 PM

Does Dave Brannigan still sing that type of song? He's not so far from you. And if you can find Mike Stanley, he used to be one of our best shanty leaders. He left NZ for Perth many years ago but I don't know where he is now.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Sian H
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 04:54 PM

Tom Kelly from The Shanty Crew (UK)has a fantastic voice and in-depth knowledge of shanties and their history. Based in Hastings, Sussex.

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 04:37 PM

Jim Mageean and the rest of the Keelers,
Graeme Knights
The Young'uns
Bob Walser
David Jones

Kitty

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: janemick
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 03:56 PM

how about a really good group from Brittany, who sing French (mainly Breton) sea songs
Fortunes de Mer

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 03:04 PM

Thank you to JimP and Charley Noble for mentioning us!

We are Peter Kasin and Richard Adrianowicz. We are based in the San Francisco Bay Area and have been singing and recording shanties many years now (we're recording a fourth album right now). JimP was kind enough to give a link to our albums at CD Baby (see above). We would love to visit Australia.

Discography:
TIME ASHORE IS OVER(recorded by Richard in 2002)(search CD Baby under Adrianowicz to find this one.
BOLDLY FROM THE WESTWARD (our 1st album together, 2005)
CAST OFF EACH LINE (our 2nd album, 2006)
WITH SHIPMATES ALL AROUND (our 3rd album, 2010)

Warren, you can reach us at:

Peter Kasin, [e-mail]
Richard Adrianowicz, [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,Azoic
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 12:21 PM

The latest effort from June Tabor,"Ashore", pertains itself to the sea.

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: stallion
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 12:19 PM

oops and of course Hissyfit, not so much shanty's but superb sea songs

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: stallion
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 12:18 PM

Wow never thought it was a competition! There are loads and loads........and loads and loads...... but of the best i have ever heard singing together, J-Girls and the late, great, Barry Finn with Ken Schatz, storming gig at Scarborough Seafest

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: JennyD
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 11:54 AM

Another vote for David Coffin from me - I had the pleasure of hearing him sing at a house concert recently, and he was terrific.

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 11:40 AM

www.warrenfahey.com

[e-mail]

Collector, performer, publisher and general mine of information on OZ folk matters, Warren Fahey has a website that is a wonder of the world - check it out if you haven't found it before.

Ross

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,Morti at work
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 11:23 AM

The Shanty Annas are good

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,Rich A
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 11:20 AM

Jim McGeean
Graeme Knights
The Young uns
and no one has mentioned Bob Waltzer!

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 11:05 AM

Oh, and Debra Cowan. And I'm sure I will add more after this weekend!

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 10:52 AM

To the above, let me add John Roberts and Tony Barrand.

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 10:39 AM

You're too kind, Charley.

Then there's that guy Charlie Ipcar who visited us here last year - he had a few maritime-connected songs and shanties, didn't he?

Ross

PS - songs from Fleetwood Folk Club's magnum opus "The Final Trawl" (1981 etc) curently being added to this thread:-

Fleetwood & Fishing: Songs of the Trawling Trade

RJC

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 10:22 AM

Then there's The Red Duster from Fleetwood (UK), Ron Baxter and Ross Campbell.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,John in Mullion
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 09:58 AM

FF may have grabbed the limelight here in Cornwall but don't rule out Rum &. Shrub. Be nice if they went to Oz (or anywhere) for a while.

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 09:40 AM

I am sorry I will have to rule myself out of contention as I retired from shantying four and a half years ago. :)

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: MARINER
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 09:13 AM

As mentioned above, Jim McGeean from Newcastle.Then there's Bob Conroy and Dan Milner both from NY.

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: r.padgett
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 09:12 AM

John Conolly and Shanty Jack from Grimsby/Cleethorpes and our own Roaring Forties from the same area, roughly

No other areas of UK have their favourites

Ray

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Richard from Liverpool
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 08:45 AM

I definitely like Gibb Sahib's approach, definitely shanties and sea songs without the bullshit. I'd love to see him as a performer at some of these shanty festivals. I'm not sure how what he does would translate from the youtube video into a live performance, I can imagine him grabbing audience members to get them to join in and stuff (in the same way as he's done with friends and family on his youtube videos).

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 08:26 AM

All the instruments used by The Boat Band just interfere with the song and are extremely irritating, it just seems to be a case of ' we've got the instruments, so we'll jolly well use them, ' shanty's don't need musical instruments.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,Linda Kelly
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 08:11 AM

Second Brassy and The Younguns Pint & Dale but John Conolly and David & Julie Evardson are still up there and favourites!

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: greg stephens
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 07:36 AM

Just to show that sea songs don't have to sung by blokes, here's the Boat Band singing Shallow Brown
And they'd love to come to Australia

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 07:31 AM

You can find out more about the Maritime Crew here.

Auckland isn't too far from Sydney.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: SylviaN
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 07:17 AM

Have to mention Three Sheets to the Wind, where you have a great trio and get three great solo singers in Keith Kendrick, Geoff Higginbottom and Derek Gifford.

Cheers
Sylvia

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 07:05 AM

warren , i tried to e mail you but your email adress appears invalid, so apologies to others for putting the tracks up here.
i would be very interested in appearing, should it happen.DickMiles

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 06:58 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR1UFvNZAxw

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 06:50 AM

Dick Miles, here are some exmpleshttp://www.youtube.com/user/dickmilesmusic#p/a/u/2/DaZfpYsqH3k http://www.youtube.com/user/dickmilesmusic#p/u/13/peA18SO9afU http://www.youtube.com/user/dickmilesmusic#p/u/21/bq76ncXFyAghttp://www.youtube.com/user/dickmilesmusic#p/u/20/c-uf8L6ZB3Ihttp://www.youtube.com/user/dickmilesmusic#p/u/31/A97H6xMahNI

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Cats
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 06:36 AM

Jim Mageean from near Newcastle upon Tyne has to be the finest exponent of this genre that I have come across in a great many years. He is also a wonderful man as well.

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,Banjiman
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 03:17 AM

The Young'uns (UK) and Brasy (Poland). Both do more than Sea Songs but do Sea Songs very well indeed.

Young and dynamic as well!

Paul

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 03:08 AM

Totaly agree with you Ray about The Keelers and Kimbers Men, both as groups and individually are excellent, that Cornish lot are more like a choir, and not a good one at that.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: r.padgett
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 01:19 AM

UK of course The Keelers and all their individual members!

Kimbers Men, Graham Knights

WE do of course have a set of Shanty singers who have entered main stream from Cornwall and making £millions, now what do they call them?

Lots more to come I reckon

Ray

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 12:59 AM

You should have a chanty competition. Whoever knows the most songs, wins. :-D

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 12:25 AM

There's Frank Woerner, Bob Conroy, David Jones and members of the New York Packet.

Jay

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 11:02 PM

Hard to beat David Coffin and Ken Schatz.

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 10:42 PM

Well, there's The Roaring Forty of Sydney, Australia

Bob Zentz from Norfolk, Virginia.

Certainly Gordon Bok from Maine

The Johnson Girls from New York City

Peter Kasin and Richard Adrianowicz from San Francisco

Liverpool Forebitter (Andy Kenna)

Danny Spooner from Victoria, Australia.

The Maritime Crew from Auckland, New Zealand

I could probably rattle off another hundred or so if you'd like.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,JimP
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 10:40 PM

Mudcat's own Chantyranger and Radriano are excellent performers, but also have done mighty work in researching and bringing to life lesser known (and previously unknown) shanties and sea songs. Go here and listen:

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/PeterKasinRichardAdrianowicz

Subject: RE: Folklore: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 09:29 PM

I would certainly say Simon Trevelyon of B.C. Will Pint and Felicia Dale of Seattle..Hank Cramer of Winthrop WA. Gordon Bok of course.   Chris Roe, Jill King of PNW. mg

Subject: Folklore: Best shanty and sea songs singers now?
From: GUEST,Warren Fahey
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 09:16 PM

I am attempting to establish who are the world's current best/leading singers of sea songs and shanties.

I am looking to the possibility of a maritime festival in Sydney and open to suggestions for suitable performers. Any nationality.

Warren Fahey
www.warrenfahey.com