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Pf.1f FOLK MUSIC & SONG --- SHANTY GROUPS, DUOS, & SOLO
- Folk Music & Song webpages are Bands/Groups, Duos, Solo plus Shanty groups, duos, solo
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'Shanties are a "craze" at present' -- J. Glyn Davies, 1923 "As I was a-walkin' down Paradise Street" from Capstan Bars, by David W. Bone, Edinburgh, The Porpoise Press, 1931. Woodcut by Freda Bone. 
Whey Hey! Bully in the alley!
Wotton under Edge, Glos, since you ask ~ © Cresby Brown (Cresby, oh Cresby Brown, aka Mr Red, is our Folklife Roving Reporter)
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We also list, free, in this Directory, 🅄 UK Updates-signups (other than above), and 🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal subscriber/contributor.
We also list, free, in this Directory, 🅄 UK Updates-signups (other than above), and 🄹 Folklife Traditions Journal subscriber/contributor.
CYMRU • WALES
Nid yw’r golygyddion yn siaradwyr Cymraeg rhugl, rydym yn croesawu gwirfoddolwyr i’n helpu i gyfieithu rhestriadau, penawdau ac ati.
🅄 Swansea BAGGYRINKLE www.baggyrinkle.com/
⇒ Terri 07974408999. baggyrinkle<at>icloud.com
⊕ Baggyrinkle Swansea Shantymen, brought together by Dave Robinson (retired) and managed by the long suffering, but brilliant Terri Kennedy, in 1994. Our main repertoire being songs of the sea & shanties, but we also perform drinking, rural & mining songs. [2023 June, new listing]
🅄 Swansea BAGGYRINKLE www.baggyrinkle.com/
⇒ Terri 07974408999. baggyrinkle<at>icloud.com
⊕ Baggyrinkle Swansea Shantymen, brought together by Dave Robinson (retired) and managed by the long suffering, but brilliant Terri Kennedy, in 1994. Our main repertoire being songs of the sea & shanties, but we also perform drinking, rural & mining songs. [2023 June, new listing]
ENGLAND, by region
ENGLAND: WEST COUNTRY (SOUTH-WEST)
Ø Wilts FRIGGITT www.friggitt.co.uk
⇒ Chris Turpin 07766492415. christurpin2016<at>gmail.com
⊕ Friggitt perform songs and tunes from the nautical tradition and beyond.
🄵 Bristol The BRISTOL SHANTYMEN (no website)
⇒ Maggie Starkey 01454 321943. 4 Pitchcombe, Yate, Bristol, South Glos, BS17 4JX
⊕ The group perform shanties and forebitters. Available for festivals, folk clubs functions, etc.
🄵 Bristol The HARRY BROWNS www.harrybrowns.co.uk
⇒ Chris Fry 01458 274407
⊕ Salty fun and songs of the sea from this longstanding band of vagabonds: jaw dropping harmonies, superb instrumentation and always a bundle of laughs.
🄵 Glos BLACKTHORN BUSKERS (no website)
⇒ Will Craswell 07740 248785. For more info please contact Will – william.craswell<at>gmail.com
⊕ A lively 4 Piece Trad/Modern Folk Band based in Gloucester [2024 June, new email]
Ø Wilts FRIGGITT www.friggitt.co.uk
⇒ Chris Turpin 07766492415. christurpin2016<at>gmail.com
⊕ Friggitt perform songs and tunes from the nautical tradition and beyond.
🄵 Bristol The BRISTOL SHANTYMEN (no website)
⇒ Maggie Starkey 01454 321943. 4 Pitchcombe, Yate, Bristol, South Glos, BS17 4JX
⊕ The group perform shanties and forebitters. Available for festivals, folk clubs functions, etc.
🄵 Bristol The HARRY BROWNS www.harrybrowns.co.uk
⇒ Chris Fry 01458 274407
⊕ Salty fun and songs of the sea from this longstanding band of vagabonds: jaw dropping harmonies, superb instrumentation and always a bundle of laughs.
🄵 Glos BLACKTHORN BUSKERS (no website)
⇒ Will Craswell 07740 248785. For more info please contact Will – william.craswell<at>gmail.com
⊕ A lively 4 Piece Trad/Modern Folk Band based in Gloucester [2024 June, new email]
ENGLAND: WEST MIDLANDS
🄵 Herefs FISHMONGERS' FRIENDS (no website)
⇒ Bookings - please contact Richard by email rcmam.74<at>gmail.com or phone 07989501047
⊕ Fishmongers’ Friends are an informal group of shanty singers based in Bishops Frome, Herefs. Anybody interested in booking The Fishmongers' Friends for your event please contact Richard as above. [Jan 2024, new entry]
🄵 Warks HAWKESBURY TRAWLERMEN https://trawlermen.folkfax.net/
⇒ Malc Gurnham
⊕ The country's most landlocked Shanty Crew, the infamous Hawkesbury Trawlermen. Featuring two North Warwickshire Folk Club organisers, and at least four more ancient doyens of the genre, and available for club bookings via our website. [Contact changed, April 2024]
🄵 Herefs FISHMONGERS' FRIENDS (no website)
⇒ Bookings - please contact Richard by email rcmam.74<at>gmail.com or phone 07989501047
⊕ Fishmongers’ Friends are an informal group of shanty singers based in Bishops Frome, Herefs. Anybody interested in booking The Fishmongers' Friends for your event please contact Richard as above. [Jan 2024, new entry]
🄵 Warks HAWKESBURY TRAWLERMEN https://trawlermen.folkfax.net/
⇒ Malc Gurnham
⊕ The country's most landlocked Shanty Crew, the infamous Hawkesbury Trawlermen. Featuring two North Warwickshire Folk Club organisers, and at least four more ancient doyens of the genre, and available for club bookings via our website. [Contact changed, April 2024]
ABOVE are the main areas covered by the Folklife West magazine - most entries are from Members in those areas
BELOW other areas - more free entries welcome! Please spread the word ! it's www.folklife-directory.uk, contact [email protected]
ENGLAND: EAST MIDLANDS, & EAST
entries welcome
entries welcome
ENGLAND: SOUTH-EAST, & LONDON
Ø London THE HOGEYE MEN ......................... https://www.facebook.com/HogEyeMen
⇒ hogeyemen<at>mail.com [2022]
Ø London THE HOGEYE MEN ......................... https://www.facebook.com/HogEyeMen
⇒ hogeyemen<at>mail.com [2022]
NORTH WEST ENGLAND
🄵 Cumbria ALL@SEA www.facebook.com/iseenoships
⇒ Contact Sandra & Steve 07813403808 or 07502454001, email lakedistrictfolk<at>gmail.com
⊕ Sandra & Steve Harrison, Maggie & John Stockdale, and Jen Wilson. They love to sing shanties and songs of the sea in harmony but most of all they love to hear their audience singing back at them. (Oct 2022, new Member)
🅄 Lancashire THE MIZZEN CREW https://www.TheMizzenCrew.org
⇒ John Metcalfe 07971817651. TheMizzenCrew<at>gmail.com;
⊕ Keeping traditions alive through entertainment and education. Hailing from Lancashire & South Cumbria our crew bring a variety of vocal styles and material to sing traditional shanties and songs of working life on the water. The Mizzen Crew are proud to support the Morecambe RNLI Lifeboat Station. (revised Mar 2023)
🄵 Cumbria ALL@SEA www.facebook.com/iseenoships
⇒ Contact Sandra & Steve 07813403808 or 07502454001, email lakedistrictfolk<at>gmail.com
⊕ Sandra & Steve Harrison, Maggie & John Stockdale, and Jen Wilson. They love to sing shanties and songs of the sea in harmony but most of all they love to hear their audience singing back at them. (Oct 2022, new Member)
🅄 Lancashire THE MIZZEN CREW https://www.TheMizzenCrew.org
⇒ John Metcalfe 07971817651. TheMizzenCrew<at>gmail.com;
⊕ Keeping traditions alive through entertainment and education. Hailing from Lancashire & South Cumbria our crew bring a variety of vocal styles and material to sing traditional shanties and songs of working life on the water. The Mizzen Crew are proud to support the Morecambe RNLI Lifeboat Station. (revised Mar 2023)
NORTH EAST ENGLAND
🅄 Tyne and Wear JIM MAGEEAN www.jimmageean.co.uk
⇒ shanty_jim<at>hotmail.com
⊕ A folk singer from the North East of England specialising in Sea Songs and Shanties from the Great Days of Sail. He is internationally renowned for his powerful singing and has performed all over the world. Biography and discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mageean [New listing, Nov 2023]
🅄 Tyne and Wear JIM MAGEEAN www.jimmageean.co.uk
⇒ shanty_jim<at>hotmail.com
⊕ A folk singer from the North East of England specialising in Sea Songs and Shanties from the Great Days of Sail. He is internationally renowned for his powerful singing and has performed all over the world. Biography and discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mageean [New listing, Nov 2023]
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ALBA • SCOTLAND --- and --- INTERNATIONAL
Scotland
entries welcome
Canada
ØØ British Columbia RICK POLLAY YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@rickpollay9851/playlists
⇒ Rick Pollay 604-970-8448. Richard.Pollaysauder<at>ubc.ca [2023 June, new listing]
USA
As Stan Hugill said in 1987: "... these people in the States - Gosh they sing their shanties marvellously well ... "
from interview 'A Song on the Rope: Stan Hugill on Shanties' which we published in Broadsheet (predecessor to Folklife) in 1987 ( ! )
ØØ California RICHARD ADRIANOWICZ www.walkashore.com
⇒ Leading the shanty Mister Stormalong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb8LT0sBg1Y
⊕ The website www.walkashore.com includes very comprehensive notes about individual songs, and lyrics.
I recorded a solo shanty album in 2002, Time Ashore is Over. After that Peter Kasin and I formed a duet and we recorded four shanty albums together. [2022]
ØØ California RIGGY RACKIN www.riggy.com
⇒ riggy<at>riggy.com. Album download by PayPal: see website www.riggy.com
⊕ Riggy's latest album is "Simple” - simple, well-chosen and relatively unfamiliar folksongs, with sparse concertina accompaniment. Contact Riggy for purchase, riggy<at>riggy.com [2022]
ØØ New Hampshire CHRIS MADEN http://crism.maden.org/
⇒ also see http://music.maden.org/
⊕ Chris Maden, text nerd & chanteyman. “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me...” — Emma Lazarus [2022]
entries from other countries welcome
entries welcome
Canada
ØØ British Columbia RICK POLLAY YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@rickpollay9851/playlists
⇒ Rick Pollay 604-970-8448. Richard.Pollaysauder<at>ubc.ca [2023 June, new listing]
USA
As Stan Hugill said in 1987: "... these people in the States - Gosh they sing their shanties marvellously well ... "
from interview 'A Song on the Rope: Stan Hugill on Shanties' which we published in Broadsheet (predecessor to Folklife) in 1987 ( ! )
ØØ California RICHARD ADRIANOWICZ www.walkashore.com
⇒ Leading the shanty Mister Stormalong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb8LT0sBg1Y
⊕ The website www.walkashore.com includes very comprehensive notes about individual songs, and lyrics.
I recorded a solo shanty album in 2002, Time Ashore is Over. After that Peter Kasin and I formed a duet and we recorded four shanty albums together. [2022]
ØØ California RIGGY RACKIN www.riggy.com
⇒ riggy<at>riggy.com. Album download by PayPal: see website www.riggy.com
⊕ Riggy's latest album is "Simple” - simple, well-chosen and relatively unfamiliar folksongs, with sparse concertina accompaniment. Contact Riggy for purchase, riggy<at>riggy.com [2022]
ØØ New Hampshire CHRIS MADEN http://crism.maden.org/
⇒ also see http://music.maden.org/
⊕ Chris Maden, text nerd & chanteyman. “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me...” — Emma Lazarus [2022]
entries from other countries welcome
