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In Red Dead Redemption 2 the character Simon Pearson, a former sailor, will sing the sea shanty "Homeward Bound" at the campsite while playing a concertina. [195] In Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, if the player's ship crew have a high morale score, sea shanties will be played while the player travels around the game's overworld. [196]
In 2013, the Wellington Sea Shanty Society released a version of the song on their album Now That's What I Call Sea Shanties Vol. 1. [3] A particularly well-known rendition of the song was made by the Bristol-based a cappella musical group the Longest Johns on their collection of nautical songs Between Wind and Water in 2018. [16]
Sea shanties albums (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Sea shanties" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes
The music has since appeared at early folk festivals, and by the late 1970s, the activities of enthusiasts and scholar-performers at places like the Mystic Seaport Museum (who initiated an annual Sea Music Festival in 1979) and the San Francisco Maritime Museum established sea music—inclusive of shanties, sea songs, and other maritime music ...
Laura Alexandrine Smith (1861–1902) [1] was an English musician, [2] ethnomusicologist [3] and one of the earliest collectors of sea shanties. [4] Smith's The Music of the Waters, published in 1888, was possibly the first collection of sea shanties to include music as well as words.
It contained 50 songs, half of which would find their way into most modern shanty books or repertoires. [4] Whall's book preceded the collection of another genuine seafarer Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915). Bullen went to sea in 1869 aged 12 and later became a prolific novelist. At the end of his life, he set out 42 shanties in his interesting ...
John Glyn Davies (22 October 1870 – 11 November 1953) was a Welsh scholar, poet and songwriter, most of whose creative writing is in the Welsh language.His songs for children, often in the form of sea shanties, remain very popular in Wales.
It is a sea shanty that is said to have been first sung by the fishermen of Hokkaido. The commonly known version of the song and dance is called Nanchū Sōran ( 南中ソーラン ) and was created in 1991 at the Wakkanai Minami Junior High School.