Tavy Tars: Teignmouth Shanty Festival

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Teignmouth Shanty Festival

29th September saw us at the first Teignmouth Shanty Festival. We did a couple of venues, one at the Teignmouth Corinthian YC and another over the water in Shaldon at the London Inn.
This festival was very well organised and the hospitality was excellent. Thank you to all concerned.

On stage at the Yacht Club. Photo by Rosie

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?

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Teignmouth Shanty Festival

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