Artists A-F

Black Deep Shanty Crew is one of our amazing resident Shanty Crews, based in Harwich. There are around a million years of music making and shanty singing between them (nearly a true story). They love bringing lesser known songs to the party, sing international and local classics, plus watch out for a melodeon, whistles and more.

Castaway Crew is a Norfolk based, all-female a capella shanty group, singing both traditional and modern songs about the sea. Most of the songs in their repertoire are hundreds of years old whilst some have been written by their crew. They were founded in 2024, and formed from like-minded friends who share a love of singing and having fun at the same time. 

Chris Roche has been singing shanties for probably more years than he cares to remember being a founder member of The Shanty Crew on the Cutty Sark back in 1973. He has a huge love for the sea and shanty tradition and an extensive knowledge of the subject but is certainly not just an armchair shantyman having sailed many times on tall ships and been around Cape Horn several times. 

With over 40 years’ combined experience of singing and playing, the four members of DAZZLE have performed at festivals, folk clubs and museums and aboard a variety of boats. Based in Kent and Essex and named after the DAZZLE camouflage used to disguise warships in World War Two their repertoire is wide ranging, from traditional shanties sung acapella to self penned songs with maritime themes.