Search

Home > Maine Things Considered > Mainers Are Working To Give Historical Sea Chanteys New Life
Podcast: Maine Things Considered
Episode:

Mainers Are Working To Give Historical Sea Chanteys New Life
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:04:54
Publish Date: 2019-05-17 06:17:33
Description: The sea chantey, once the soundtrack of the Golden Age of Sail, has gone the way of other traditional work songs — relegated to folk festivals, history museums and a few tourist schooners. But in Midcoast Maine, chanteys that have sat in the archives for nearly one hundred years are getting a new life and being put back to work on Penobscot Bay.
Total Play: 0