A history of sea shanties - Royal Museums Greenwich
2021年1月5日 · Sea shanties were work songs, devised to accompany particular actions or tasks on board ship. They could help keep time among groups of sailors, coordinate physical movements like hauling ropes and raising sails, and relieve the boredom of long, repetitive tasks.
Sea Shanty Festival 2024 - Royal Museums Greenwich
2024年11月23日 · Join students from Lucas Vale Primary in Deptford for a performance of a Bengali river racing song and some sea shanties that they have re-written to tell some of the stories of the Lascars. The pupils have worked with Poetry Vs Colonialism artists Gouri Choudhury and Laila Sumpton to learn and craft these songs of the river and sea. Get ready ...
How to create a sea shanty - Royal Museums Greenwich
Remember that many British ships were travelling across the Atlantic from Britain, to Africa and to the Caribbean, back to Britain again during the 1800s when sea shanties became very popular. Sea work songs were popular on boats carrying cotton (from the Caribbean and America) and tea.
Live Sea Shanty Performances | Online Events - Royal Museums …
2021年4月6日 · Sea shanty special. Tuesday 6 April - show starts at 7pm. Book now. A mixture of live and video performances sprinkled with a hearty discussion on all things sea shanty. We look at some of the history associated with sea shanties, dissecting lyrics to explore their meanings, plus finding out how they are adapted to give them a contemporary ...
Sea shanty singers - Royal Museums Greenwich
About our sea shanty singers The HogEye Men . With almost 20 years of experience as a group singing shanties and maritime songs to audiences around the country, including a monthly residency on Cutty Sark since 2019, The HogEye Men are respected as London's primary exponents of these unaccompanied working songs from a past age.
Sign-along Sea Shanty - Royal Museums Greenwich
Sea shanties are traditional songs originally created and sung by sailors at sea. The Rio Grande shanty, which you can learn key signs for here, is a nineteenth century shanty that was sung by British and American sailors. Follow along with Noel …
Life at sea in the age of sail | Royal Museums Greenwich
Traditionally hard-drinking and tough, seamen made the best of their cramped living quarters, enjoying games of dice and cards, telling tales, playing musical instruments, carving, drawing, practising knots or model making. They also sang ‘sea shanties’ – rhythmic work songs to help repetitive tasks such as hauling on ropes.
Elkins, Sir Robert Francis, Vice-Admiral, 1903-1985.
The remainder of this group consists of arrangements for ceremonial Royal occasions, 1948 to 1951, and a selection of sea shanties, arranged for orchestra. The papers also include Len Wincott's book Invergordon mutineer (London, 1974) and the publicity given to his visit to England, also in that year.
Royal Museums Greenwich to Mark World Oceans Day with Family …
The London Sea Shanty Collective . Sing along to some sea shanties with The London Sea Shanty Collective as they bring the Museum to life with traditional working songs. They will perform two 30-minute sets as well as a workshop where …
Easter holiday events for kids in London: Cutty Sark
Embark on an immersive musical journey with some sea shanty-inspired storytelling! Dive into tales of daring sailors aboard the ship and sing shanties together. Location: Tween Deck | Timings: 45-minute sessions at 11am, 12:30pm and 2pm | Suitable for: All ages and abilities