Last month, David Coffin’s phone began blowing up. A Gloucester-based musician and the longtime master of ceremonies of the Christmas Revels’ holiday concerts, Coffin saw a flood of texts and messages ...

More than ten months stuck at home is enough to give anyone wanderlust. On TikTok, the urge to be out in the wilds is manifesting in an unexpected way: a viral obsession with sea shanties. Written to ...

If you’ve felt the pull of a good chorus, the kind that makes strangers sing like shipmates - then you already know why The ...

If you’re on TikTok, the go-to app for Gen Z and millennials, you probably spent early January humming catchy nautical tunes while washing never-ending dishes or doomscrolling while you wait for pizza ...

Nathan Evans was working as a mail carrier when he uploaded his cover of an old whaling tune. Now he has a folk-inspired album of his own songs, which he promises people can still “sing in the car.” ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — What is old is new again. Sea shanties, the centuries-old seafaring tunes, have exploded on TikTok and other social media apps. Videos with #seashanty have been watched 2.8 billion times ...

The sounds of sailing headed to Hemyock thanks to an evening of sea shanty songs with the Barnacle Bouys. Around 100 people attended St Mary’s Church to enjoy a free evening with the group of five ...

2020 began with a social fascination for sea shanties, which can be traced in large part back to Nathan Evans’ viral TikTok singing the classic whaling sea shanty “Wellerman,” and the countless ...

Home Free and The Longest Johns, known for a cappella country stylings and TikTok-viral sea shanties, will perform at the Peoria Civic Center's Prairie Home Alliance Theater Oct. 1. The Longest Johns ...

The event began at Nelson's Shantymen's home port the Jolly Sailors pub near the harbour in 2022, when nine acts performed and has grown into a major maritime heritage event - not to mention the ...

The event began at Nelson's Shantymen's home port the Jolly Sailors pub near the harbour in 2022, when nine acts performed ...