The sudden surge of interest in seafaring songs is a wonderful, unexpected, and soothing during a year that’s already challenging its predecessor in awfulness. But listen, friends: The correct way to ...

Yo ho, yo ho, a sea chantey fest for me. Avast, me hearties! If songs of the sea are your cup of grog, then set sail to the San Diego Maritime Museum and San Diego Folk Heritage’s 26th annual Sea ...

Three days after the blizzard of 2016 shuttered Washington, a dozen people filter into a dimly lit, wood-paneled basement room at a sports bar near the White House that resembles nothing so much as ...

In late December, Nathan Evans, a twenty-six year old singer from Scotland, posted a TikTok of himself performing a multi-part sea chantey titled “The Scotsman.” Evans sang the piece a capella, in a ...

If your go-to sea chantey contains the line "Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum," most people who actually know something about sea chanteys — or, more properly, "work songs of the sea" — will think you're ...

For almost any longtime resident, the song that truly captures hometown sentiment here is Tony Bennett’s anthem about a guy who left his heart in this idyllic place of moody fog and impossible hills.

2021 may have been the year of the sea chantey, but some New Yorkers are carrying the tradition into 2022. Sea chanteys — rollicking musical numbers celebrating life on the water — burst into ...

Just before 8 on a foggy Saturday evening, national park Ranger Peter Kasin boards the old sailing ship Balclutha, rests his Smokey Bear hat on the bench beside him, and opens his mouth as if to begin ...