Hanging Johnny Home

We are a group of singers based in Plymouth, Devon & East Cornwall who specialise in presenting Shanties
& Sea Songs from the great age of sail together with contemporary sea songs.

We sing both with instruments & unaccompanied & we positively encourage audience participation.

We have performed at Maritime Festivals, Music & Arts Festivals both at home & on the mainland of Europe and in pubs, clubs and theatres in Cornwall, Devon & other regions of the United Kingdom. Many festival goers will have also seen us busking, running pub sing-arounds & performance workshops
as well as in concert.

In the year 2000 we were the proud ‘runners-up’ in the prestigious ‘Stan Hugill Trophy’ which is contested by Shanty Crews from all across Europe (& sometimes further afield). Competition takes place at various European Maritime Festivals and consists of singing in concert, in addition to singing whilst working at the rigging, capstan or brake windlass, or at the pump.

We are very pleased to announce that well known
local singer GIDEON BARRETT has agreed to join us.
He features on the new CD, Visions Remain, & will join us on most of our planned gigs this year.

RECORDING NEWS

Our most recent CDs are:
"No Other Life..." (2005)

In 2006, by popular demand, we re-issued our two
original cassette tapes digitally re-mixed onto a double CD
Sea Songs & Shanties (1994)
& The Sea Quell (1996)

& OUR NEW RECORDING
Visions Remain (2008)
(details on our RECORDINGS page)

As you can see from our BOOKINGS page we have very little room left for more gigs except near the end of the year, so if you are thinking of booking us, please get in touch soon.

Pennant

We are the official Shanty Crew to the Dartmouth Yacht Club, as far as
we know, the only Yacht Club in England to have its own Shanty Crew!

Following our appearances at the BBC Television Devon
'Pudsey's Aquarium Party' for the 2007 Children in Need appeal,
we are now entitled to call ourselves:
'By Appointment to Pudsey'

Pudsey

Above all we want our audiences to enjoy themselves and have FUN!!

Busking in Vegesack

Busking at Vegesack Maritime Festival, Germany 2001
a festival we have performed at nearly every year since

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