Sea shanties have taken over social media, courtesy of a series of viral TikTok videos. "Shanty Tok" isn't a new phenomenon, but a viral video of Scottish singer Nathan Evans singing the song "The ...
This popular U.K. vocal troupe — hailing from Port Isaac, Cornwall — has been thrilling sea shanty fans since the mid-1990s. After delivering a number of independent releases, the Fisherman’s Friends ...
On a sweltering summer day in mid-July, over 120 strangers crammed into an Irish pub with pints of Guinness in hand to sing an unusual tune for a landlocked state: a sea shanty. The big picture: For ...
The sea shanty is having a moment. The old-timey form of maritime music, which experienced its original heyday back in the mid-1800s aboard sailings vessels and fishing boats as well as at shipyards ...
The man who put centuries-old folk songs into the social-media spotlight is now sailing into stardom with a record deal and a new single — based on the sea shanty that ushered in the most ...
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 ...
You've never heard Swift's song like this before. Sea shanties have seemingly taken over TikTok, and the U.S. Navy band recently got in on the craze by giving an early Taylor Swift hit a sea-faring ...
PORTLAND, Maine — There once was a tune that tickled the Internet’s fancy/When TikTok revived the humble sea shanty/The views came fast, the fad could last/Go, read about it go: People are stuck at ...
People on the internet are obsessed with "sea shanty TikTok" after a song called "The Wellerman" went viral. A sea shanty expert says the song isn't really a sea shanty because it's not in a call and ...
Luke Taylor was 17 when his voice dropped from a normal teenage register to a deep basso profundo. “I freaked out my family,” he recalls over the phone from his home in Thornton. Basso profundo, also ...
Sea shanties are all the rage these days on social media sites like Twitter and, especially, TikTok. And they have long been popular in the San Francisco Bay Area, where shanty sing-alongs have been ...
The sea shanty is having a moment. The old-timey form of maritime music, which experienced its original heyday back in the mid-1800s aboard sailings vessels and fishing boats as well as at shipyards ...