To quote Stan Hugill's book "it is fairly obvious that the wharves of Mobile and such places were the meeting ground of white mens' songs and shanties and negro songs and work songs. Scottish, Irish, and English folk songs would be brought into the mart by visiting sailors and left the mart after being hammored into shanties by the Negros, and Negro work songs from ashore would be taken by white sailors and added to their repertoire for halyard and capstan...the Gulf Ports could have been called the shanty mart or work song exchange."


A channel to share the tradition of sea music. Starting with videos from the 2012 Mystic Sea Music Festival and looking forward to much more music!