If you are around New York harbor on Sunday, there is a wonderful opportunity to hear and join in singing sea chanteys as they were meant to be sung, onboard a windjammer. The chantey sing will aboard the restored 1885 built flagship of the seaport, Wavertree, at Pier 16 at the South Street Seaport Museum in lower Manhattan at 2PM on Sunday, July 7th. Specially discounted tickets are available. Click here to learn more.
If you can’t make this Sunday’s event, there will also be chantey sings on the first Sunday in August and September on the Wavertree as well.
For the first time since Hurricane Sandy, sea music is back at the Seaport. it feels good.
As a long time shanty singer who went to sea to discover how the songs could be used to work ship deep sea and late organiser of the British group The Shanty Crew I hope that shanty singing aboard WAVERTREE will not be a one off long may it continue I expect the group of ladies The Johnson Girls will be involved somewhere along the line, say hi for me.