The Great Open Sea - A Wellington Sea Shanty Society Extravaganza (ADULTS #2)

Schedule

Sat Nov 30 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+13:00

Location

150 Breaker Bay Rd, Breaker Bay, Wellington 6022, New Zealand | Wellington, WG

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What comes first the sea or the shanty? For some, the shanty is their only way to relate the un-relatable: the foam of days – a life at Sea. For others, a shanty may transmit a maladie, something the sea alone can cure. Since time immemorial (1804), members of the Wellington Sea Shanty Society, however, have known there is no separating the salt from the spume.
They say the first W.S.S.S Shanteur was half man, half taniwha, half woman. Wasn’t so much born as broke upon the land, like a rogue wave, round Makara way. Had a voice like a porpoise in heat and moved like seaweed in the shallows. This mysterious progenitor soon had the whares and flophouses of Te Whanga-nui-a Tara awash with marine melodies. Wellington was officially a shanty town.
The most affected began to meet secretly, after dark, at bring-a-bottle affairs on the bad side of Breaker Bay. The gatherings were frequented by visiting sailors from far and wide – and the regulars known as the finest (and most raucous) choir in the south seas. No surprise that when the law came to town, they were driven undergound.
BUT – the bottle is full again! The W.S.S.S have surfaced and can be heard singing once more. What's more, they can be sung with too! - without (much) fear of inprisonment.
It’s not often a group is at once our heritage and our future. With a shanty there’s a way to find freedom, on…
THE WAVES OF THE GREAT OPEN SEA!
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FRIDAY SHOW: https://www.facebook.com/events/1457415038278199/
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150 Breaker Bay Rd, Breaker Bay, Wellington 6022, New Zealand, 150 Breaker Bay Rd, Breaker Bay, Wellington 6022, New Zealand,Wellington, New Zealand

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Wellington Sea Shanty Society

Host or Publisher Wellington Sea Shanty Society

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