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 both serious & humerous.

We sing both with instruments & unaccompanied
& we positively encourage audience participation
& love to see audiences having a good time.

We have performed at Maritime Festivals, Music
& Arts Festivals at home & on the mainland of Europe
& in pubs, clubs and theatres in Cornwall, Devon
& many other regions of the United Kingdom.

Many festival-goers will also have seen us busking,
running pub sing-arounds & performance workshops
as well as in concert at festivals both far & wide.

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

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

RECORDINGS

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

In 2006, by popular demand, we re-issued our two
original cassette tapes now 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)

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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