Music

THE SHANTY SESSIONS

Thursday 10 February 2022

Ahoy there—a new regular event. Local group The Chantry Buoys sing traditional sea shanties and other well known songs. Join them alongside special guests in our upstairs bar that overlooks the sea. It will be a fun sing-along with local drinks, old seafaring melodies, and maritime frolics.

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Bar opens 7:30 P.M.
Starts 7:30 P.M.

Free entry - no tickets

Ahoy there—a new regular event. Local group The Chantry Buoys sing traditional sea shanties and other well known songs. Join them alongside special guests in our upstairs bar that overlooks the sea. It will be a fun sing-along with local drinks, old seafaring melodies, and maritime frolics.

Based in Colyton, they sing traditional sea shanties, and other well known songs. They have performed at many Sea Shanty festivals, including Falmouth, Teignmouth, and recently performed on Lyme’s Marine Parade, to close Lifeboat week. 

Sea shanties were work songs, set to a rhythm for working, to reduce the monotony of undertaking repetitive tasks aboard ship. But they were also Foc’sle songs, which were storytelling verses to be listened to at leisure, to remind sailors of home and these helped to keep alive traditions and record local events and people.