Just a week to go to the best Shanty Festival in the UK

The Old Leigh Shanty Festival Weekend is scheduled for this weekend. I know a number of groups who've told me they are going... but it's very hard to find any information online on it

Eventually found this.......

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Our new show is ready to listen to again here: bit.ly/RRS15Nov24 with Young Chinese Dogs,
Fever Dreams, Trinelise Vaering, Steve Hewitt, Shoogelnifty, Natalie Merchant, The Agency Ft. The Samphires, Patterson Dipper, David Mitchell, Helen Gentile & Lewis Wood, Club Debris, Focus Your Audio, &more

I had a great time last weekend at @harwichshanty.bsky.social different international crews singing in every pub and venue in town. Festival always ends with a massed shanty in the church where most crews sing something. This year the whole of thar is on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ07...

Harwich Shanty Festival has now published a lias tof performers who will be appearing in this years festival on the 11th-13th of October

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I was at Dartford Folk Club this week resident Allan Richardson had updated his topical Election Fever song for 2024. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-17n...

Tom Lewis has posted a couple of new videos on his YouTube site www.youtube.com/watch?v=9emD... His site is an amalgamation of videos posted of him (a couple on the site look very similar to videos I posted on my YouTube site, but that's absolutely fine) Tom's site should have more followers.

Remembering Jimmy Lawrence, Bargeman, Sailmaker and Shanty singer who just passed away.

I've heard there may be a couple of shanty singers to listen to in the interval....