She Shanties
She Shanties got together in Whitby back in 2011 for a session but soon realised they had something a bit special.
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They are eleven women drawn together "by the love of a right good sing". They’ve sung at festivals around the UK and Europe, "on boats, in a lighthouse, in churches and in a surprising number of women’s toilets…" but "they probably like beer tents the best."
In 2015, they released an EP, Spanker Boom. "We called it that in the firm belief that the Spanker Boom was officially the most amusing part of the ship. How wrong we were." 2018 saw the release of their first full length album, Futtock Shrouds 😆.
The adventure (and the search for amusingly named bits of ships) continues.
She Shanties are: Bekka Bojanowski, Cath Tyler, Eilish Ferry-Kennington, Esther Ferry-Kennington, Freyja Boycott-Garnett, Kate Gessey, Rachel Hamer, Ruthie Boycott-Garnett, Ruth Price, Sadie Greenwood and Sally Gall.
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Whilst there are eleven of them in total, as you can imagine getting everyone in the group available on the same weekends is quite difficult! We're expecting 9 or 10 for Saturday and Sunday of the festival.
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