The Exmouth Shanty Men of Norfolk, England warm up with a crowd at the Maritime Festival in 2019. Shutterstock / Stephen William R You’re welcome — for the tune you won’t stop humming for the rest of ...

David Lowery’s Peter Pan & Wendy movie, which began streaming on Disney+ on Friday, doesn’t really feel like a David Lowery movie… until the sea shanty scene. As the filmmaker behind 2021’s The Green ...

TikTok seems to have an unparalleled ability to draw attention to the strange, the obscure, and the forgotten; even sea shanties can come back into style, eventually. In the last few weeks, the ...

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 ...

Spotify data reinforces the idea that the sea shanty is one of 2021's first breakout musical styles, revealing massive increases in streaming of tracks like "Wellerman," as performed by The Longest ...

Last week James Revell Carr, an ethnomusicology professor at the University of Kentucky and a scholar on maritime song, was watching the chaotic news cycle on TV when he had an idle, discouraging ...

Sea shanty Tiktok star Nathan Evans has hooked himself a contract with Polydor Records after his videos turned him into a viral hit. The Scottish postman, 26, became an online star earlier this month ...