Friday, July 5th
with Broadside & The Handsome Cabin Boys!
7:30 pm
aboard the historic schooner Adventuress

The all-woman band, Broadside and their counterparts, The Handsome Cabin Boys will be the chantey leaders for this special event aboard the Schooner Adventuress.  Among the leaders you will hear Trapper Graves, Carol Mesford, Felicia Dale, Steve Lalor, Kent Mesford, and William Pint.  July’s Chantey Sing will be on Friday, July 5^th during the 2013 Wooden Boat Festival, in lieu of the regular chantey sing on the second Friday of the month.

This family-friendly event is led by a chantey-man (or woman), and you — the audience — sings the chorus or leads a song. The call-and-response form of these sea-going work songs makes them easy to learn and fun to sing.

Tugboat Bromberg leading
August 9th, 7:30 – 9:30 pm
aboard tugboat Arthur Foss

That buccaneer scallywag Tugboat Bromberg will lead the August Chantey Sing aboard the tugboat Arthur Foss moored at the Historic Ships’ Wharf at South Lake Park. Tugboat Bromberg hails from that piratical port of Poulsbo and is best known for his gravely voice, his original songs, and dressing and living the characters of pirate, merchant seaman, and tugboat man.

This family-friendly event is led by a chantey-man (or woman), and you — the audience — sings the chorus or leads a song. The call-and-response form of these sea-going work songs makes them easy to learn and fun to sing.