Tavy Tars: Bere Ukes and Friends

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Bere Ukes and Friends

The Tars will be performing alongside other Devon and Cornwall based singers and musicians at the Bere Ukes and Friends concert on 9 April 2011. This will be held at the new Bere Alston Bowling Club and will be a fund raising event for the Weir Quay Community Watersports Hub project. To find out more about the evening, visit the Bere Ukes latest news page here.

A Bit about the Tavy Tars

The Tars celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2013. Formed originally to sing shanties at the launch of a new pilot gig on the river Tamar, the pleasure of performing together has kept us going ever since.
The Tars mostly live on the Bere Peninsula in West Devon, where there is a fine tradition of amateur music making. Apart from the music, we are bound together by a shared interest in rowing, sailing and all things nautical. Our music reflects that shared interest - we perform a mixture of traditional sea shanties and other 'songs of the sea', blending male voice harmonies with instrumental support from guitar, concertina and banjo.
As our reputation has grown, we have been invited to perform at some very different events, across the South West and beyond. Favourites have included surprising the passengers on the 'Scillonian III' ferry between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly, and the Christmas shoppers at the John Lewis store on Oxford Street. We have attended the Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival for many years. Whatever next?

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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