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    Comes with a full colour booklet with photos and descriptions of each shanty/song on the CD.

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Blow The Man Down 01:43
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Big Ben (ft. Find Your Voice Collective) 02:06
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All For Me Grog 02:43
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The Wellerman 02:16
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The Female Rambling Sailor 04:08
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Randy Dandy, O 03:19
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Haul On The Bowline 01:07
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My Mother Told Me 02:35
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Greenland Whale Fisheries 03:53
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Haul Away Joe 02:30
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Leave Her Johnny 05:06
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The new collaborative album between The Southern Ocean Sea Band & Warrnambool's Tin Shed Singers is Volume 1 of a collection of 11 Traditional & Bastardised Sea Shanties & Shore Songs, as sung by the two groups each year at the Port Fairy Folk Festival.

The Find Your Voice Collective joins in with them on the SOS original shanty 'Big Ben.'

Volume 2 will follow down the track.

Artwork by Warren Taylor (The Narrows)

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Shanties come down to us from a long tradition: the passage of stories from one generation to the next through song.
In saying that, we are talking about centuries, and we are referencing only the tiniest fragment of the singing and storytelling traditions that overlay the lands and waters of the South-West Coast of what is now now as 'Victoria.'

The Peek Whurrong and Gunditjmara peoples of the Eastern Maar nation have been custodians of this land and these waters down through untold millennia.

Their traditions, strong and unbroken, give life to this place.

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“By the Sea” is a collection of traditional and original shanties put together and recorded in Warrnambool’s Mozart Hall and at Sheahan Drive studios as a collaboration between The Southern Ocean Sea Band and The Tin Shed Singers.

The two groups have been singing shanties together since 2016, and were brought together by Danny Spooner & the Whalers’ Shanties at the Wharf, one of the longest running traditions of the Port Fairy Folk Festival.
Since Danny’s passing in 2017, the two groups have picked up the baton and now continue this tradition every year at the festival for the Danny Spooner Memorial Shanties at the Wharf.

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released March 9, 2024

The Tin Shed Singers are:

Brett Holbrook, Don Cowling, Donald Bellamy, Fwank Hajncl, John Woolf, Jorg Metz, Kevin Lyons, Lex MacRae, Lindsay Bamford, Mike Halls, Pasquale Mammone, Phil Carter, Phil Dwyer, Phil Perret, Philip Shaw, Rob Rowley, Robert Coffey, Rodger Brough, & Russell Porter

The Tin Shed Singers, aka Warrnambool Sheddies, are a group of men who gather for camaraderie and to prove that singing is based on quality of spirit rather than pure vocal ability. They have been singing for nigh on twenty years in Warrnambool and surrounds, and haven't tired yet.

The S.O.S band are:

Gus Franklin, Jordan Lockett, Ali McLaren, Tim Conlan, Lachlan Franklin, James Stewart Dyson, Gavin Franklin, Merran Moir, Lucinda Franklin & David Gibb.

With special guest vocals: Tara Shackell

Find Your Voice Collective:

Additional angry pirate vocals provided by the Find Your Voice Collective - welcoming over 250 individuals & unifying voices from over 12 regional communities in south-west Victoria.
The Collective represents a huge spectrum of humanity, run by community, for community & inclusive of all ages, genders, abilities, ethnicities, sexual preferences, religions & backgrounds.
They are the artists, they are the activists, they are you. www.findyourvoicecollective.com

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The Southern Ocean Sea Band Port Fairy, Australia

The Southern Ocean Sea Band are a 10-piece band singing historical songs & shanties about their hometown.

Borne directly from the late Danny Spooner’s ‘Shanties at the River,’ sessions, they made their Port Fairy Folk Festival debut to launch their album, 'Blood & Bones & Fins & Glory,' in 2017, and have since toured the regions, spreading their historical songs & shanty love far and wide. ... more

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