PORT TOWNSEND — In January 2012, a loose coalition of sea chantey enthusiasts decided to meet each month to sing songs of the sea. A year later, the group has developed into a monthly gathering that ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 25: Peter Kasin poses for a photograph on the three-masted cargo ship the Balclutha, built in 1886, at Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 25 ...

Sea shanties have survived for centuries, far beyond the golden age of seafaring. A lot of them have strong ties to New England’s maritime culture, especially the culture built around the whaling ...

It started on Dec. 27, when a Scottish singer named Nathan Evans posted a song on the video sharing app TikTok. Gazing sternly into the camera and beating his fist rhythmically on the back of a guitar ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Sometimes a sea shanty isn't just a sea shanty. With "The Ship," the heralded ...

A remarkable COVID-era social media trend birthed a global sea shanty resurgence. Shanties have many definitions, but in this case they are sailing songs of yore. They garnered new appreciation in ...

Ana Egge reaches back into the folk tradition and cleverly revives the sea shanty as the musical basis for her new single “The Ship,” premiering today. “The Ship” speaks quietly but defiantly of a ...

When I woke up last Friday morning, I realized I had several messages. All of them were links to a TikTok video of several guys singing a song, a sea shanty from the 19th century called “Wellerman,” ...

On a dark, crisp Saturday evening, with the water lapping at the sprawling wooden ship Balclutha on San Francisco’s Hyde Street Pier, groups of visitors nestled into folding chairs and began ...

“Soon may the wellerman come, to bring us sugar and tea and rum one day, when the tonguing is done we’ll take our leave and go” is a refrain many folks are familiar with thanks to the viral popularity ...

TikTok seems to have an unparalleled ability to draw attention to the strange, the obscure, and the forgotten; even sea shanties can come back into style, eventually. In the last few weeks, the ...

David Lowery’s Peter Pan & Wendy movie, which began streaming on Disney+ on Friday, doesn’t really feel like a David Lowery movie… until the sea shanty scene. As the filmmaker behind 2021’s The Green ...