Hanging Johnny Home

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

We sing both with instruments and unaccompanied and positively encourage audience participation.

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

In early 2005 we were asked by Crocodile Music if we would contribute songs to a recording for the Royal Navy's
'Trafalgar 200' celebrations, the result is:
'SHANTIES & SEA SONGS from the time of Trafalgar' Released in August '05, we hope you like it.

Our latest CDs are:
'NO OTHER LIFE'
& a re-issue, by popular demand,
of our two original cassette tapes.
Both digitally re-mixed onto a double CD:
Sea Songs & Shanties (1994)
& The Sea Quell (1996)
(details on our RECORDINGS page)

This year (2008) we are already planning another CD
and have recruited a new member to replace Geoff.
We are very pleased to announce that well known
local singer GIDEON BARRETT has agreed to join us.
He will feature on the new CD and join us on many
of our planned gigs this year.

As you can see from our BOOKINGS page we now have very little room 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 have been appointed 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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