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Don Scoby, Whidbey Islander, post commander of the Scottish American Military Society and avid bagpiper, recently published a ...

You don’t have to be a salty old sea dog to belt out shanties at the Cork Arts Theatre where Amhráin na Mara (Songs of the Sea) takes place on January 28. The session is open to everyone that ...

What the heck is a sea shanty, and why do we care? Well, because these ancient songs of sailors are exploding ... Ships were small places, with people living on top of each other.

Ariope is now one of eight songs that Souza has composed for the ... She has combined jazz and English sea shanties with Cape Verdean rhythms - including the funaná, played on an iron rod with ...