Fundraising Concert - for the Weston-super-Mare Sea Shanty and Folk Music Festival 2022
Schedule
Sat Mar 19 2022 at 05:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Location
The Church, St Paul's Church, Walliscote Rd, Weston-super-Mare BS23 1EF | Weston-super-mare, EN
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The Concert will be held at The Church [St Paul's Church, Walliscote Rd, Weston-super-Mare BS23 1EF] where we will have a seated capacity of 400. https://livefromthechurch.com/
The 2022 Weston-super-Mare Sea Shanty and Folk Music Festival will take place between the 5th and 7th of August 2022. Last year we raised a magnificent £5000 for Weston-super-Mare RNLI and Weston-super-Lions Club; despite the prevailing pandemic conditions. The organisation of the festival is a massive undertaking and we are holding this pre-festival fundraiser this year to help cover the costs of putting on the main event. The Main festival this year will have over 60 bands, over 15 venues, and around 330 forty-five minute music sets across the Sea Front and Town Centre of Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset.
Seven bands are booked to entertain you, and we thank them all for giving up their time to help us raise funds this year.
The Steepholmers: www.thesteepholmers.com
The organisers of the Weston-super-Mare Sea Shanty and Folk Music Festival.
The Steepholmers are a sea shanty group that formed in Weston-super-Mare in early summer 2018, with a little help from a certain popular video game with a nautical theme (seriously!).
We meet every Wednesday for rehearsal and perform a range of popular sea shanties and sea songs; always remaining keen on learning new ones to enhance our repertoire. Some of us like dressing up a bit when the occasion requires - think tricorn hats and the 'Poldark' look you won't be too far off.
We perform in public for community groups, in pubs, in bars, and at Sea Shanty Festivals around the UK. We play every 3rd Wednesday with invited friends our regular monthly 'Shanty Night' in Fork 'n' Ale, Weston-super-Mare
The Beach’d Buoys: www.thebeachdbuoys.com
The Beach'd Buoys were reformed several times from jetsam and flotsam found lurking in and around the side alleys and darkest recesses of the Weston-super-Mare area.
We are a not-for-profit singing/shanty band.
Profits go towards the children's hospice at Wraxall in somerset.
The Harry Browns: www.theharrybrowns.co.uk
We are a fine body of singers, with big hearts and big smiles. We are perhaps the longest-serving purveyors of sea shanties and sea songs in the UK today. We like to sing well and are renowned for our harmonies, musical arrangements and for being full of surprises.
The Severn Whalers: www.severnwhalers.co.uk
In 2017 a retired teacher from a small village overlooking the banks of the Severn was challenged by an old friend to form a sea shanty group and sing at the inaugural Tywardreath Sea Shanty Festival. This is how the Severn Whalers came to be.
Things move on, our teacher has moved to Devon, the Whalers have now comfortably settled into a crew of four who somehow find the time to rehearse weekly and perform monthly at local pubs, and also at the many shanty festivals across the Southwest. 2019 saw their first appearance at the Falmouth International Festival in addition to Perranporth, Tywardreath, Teignmouth, Gloucester, Easter Compton, Mevagissey, and St Ives.
Known for their close harmonies, great timing and having fun together the Severn Whalers’ shanty style is engaging and approachable, due in no small part to their earlier coaching from Jonathan Darley (“JD”) of the foremost shanty group The Longest Johns. With songs ranging from the sublime God Moves to the ridiculous Chicken on a Raft, all are sung with enthusiasm and energy that keeps these close friends together and has audiences calling for more.
The Swing Rioters: www.facebook.com/TheSwingRioters
The Cotswold’s Punk Folk Band. In the early years of the 3rd millennium, a mixed and ever-changing group of musicians met in a workshop once a week to bash out tunes and songs under the working name of “Careful Now”. That group has evolved to become what is now the “Swing Rioters”, a five-piece punk-folk band based in a shed in Blockley near Chipping Campden.
The original Swing Riots were a series of disturbances in the rural counties of England in 1830. Increasing mechanisation was threatening the livelihoods and agricultural workers. The workers responded with protest and, in some cases, violent actions including the burning of hayricks and the smashing of threshing machines.
The Swing Rioters today sing songs of England suitably adapted to the modern world. They play with energy and humour. Expect to have a good time…
Piratitude: www.piratitude.com
A hilarious, raucous, pirate-themed, folk-rock singalong band from the historic pirate port of Bristol.
Piratitude plays romping, rootsy, folk-rock roof-raisers, with shanties and singalongs, plus some affectionate and entertaining reinventions of classic tunes, and our own pirate material. Songs of the sea, of love, loss, travel, transportation, rum, voyages, battles, bravery, and the joys of drinking. All delivered with style, musicality, audience participation, and bags of piratitude.
And all in character and full pirate costume, of course, me hearties!
Morris Minor:
We are Bob Cross and Paul Wilson (and occasionally also our " Cabin boy" Harlan Chapman -Green) and we are all members of the Chalice Morris Men, Based at Brent Knoll. We have been singing together for 40 years ...or is it longer? To the rest of the team, it must seem like forever.
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Where is it happening?
The Church, St Paul's Church, Walliscote Rd, Weston-super-Mare BS23 1EF, Weston-super-mare, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays: