Merchant sailors (and music fans from modern day) have been singing traditional shanties about life on the waves since at least the early 19th century. But you don't need a big body of water to make a ...

It's folly to examine why some things go viral on the internet, and by doing so one risks discounting the beauty of the simplest answer: They just do. Nothing makes sense. Roll with it. Or at least, ...

ROCKFORD, Mich. (WOOD) — Visitors to Rockford’s Kent District Library branch can sing along to some Midwest sea shanties with a Grand Rapids folk musician July 16. Ben Traverse, a musician and member ...

Nathan Evans was working as a mail carrier when he uploaded his cover of an old whaling tune. Now he has a folk-inspired album of his own songs, which he promises people can still “sing in the car.” ...

The Big Mouth Billy Bass and other singing fish were a scourge first delivered to us in the late 90s. [Kevin Heckart] has been teaching them to sing new songs without the tinny sound quality and hokey ...

Sea shanties have survived for centuries, far beyond the golden age of seafaring. A lot of them have strong ties to New England’s maritime culture, especially the culture built around the whaling ...

The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is currently underway in Glasgow, Scotland, and researchers at the University of Plymouth in England have marked the occasion by releasing ...

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 ...