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The Maritime Crew Sea Songs and Shanties
Auckland Region
The Maritime Crew:
New Zealand's only music group specialising
in the performance of Sea songs and Shanties was formed in 1994
with the primary purpose of performing for visitors to the National
Maritime Museum at Auckland's Hobson Wharf. There they give free
concerts on the first Sunday of every month.
A mature group of 7 men rehearse regularly and it shows with hearty
enthusiasm as they sing and chant their way through a range of songs
collected from around the world but also including some originals.
On some tunes they accompany themselves with banjo bones, guitar,
mandolin, mouth organ and whistle. The remainder of the songs are
sung unaccompanied. Their repertoire includes International Shanties
and Sea songs and Irish tunes.
These guys are entertainers as well, with
lots of humour. They can perform at conferences, weddings, parties,
street festivals and markets.
The Maritime Crew has recorded
2 CD's. One a studio recording and the other recorded live at
Auckland Folk Festival 2000. Our demonstration tracks are from
the latter.
In 2001 The Maritime Crew toured Poland and performed in front
crowds of up to 5000 people plus on Polish TV.
For a Unique Nautical Theme for your event- try The Maritime Crew!
THE MARITIME CREW belongs to ISSA - International Shanty and Seasong
Association. This largely a European based organisation with hundreds
of members in Europe. Holland alone has about 160 shanty choirs belonging
to ISSA and these are choirs in the full meaning of the word with
40-50 or more voices in each. ISSA will be celebrating its 10th anniversary
next and it has invited us to participate in its 10th anniversary
maritime music festival at Niebull in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
on the first weekend in August 2005. We can't go to Europe for just
one weekend festival so have jacked up further gigs. On the second
weekend we will be at a festival in Bremen (with a club or two before
that date) then on the third weekend we perform at a festival in Noordwijkerhout
in Holland. Pretty good, eh? We applied to Creative NZ for funding
to help pay our travel costs but they turned us down.
