How about some shanties in Polish, English, German and French? Full service guaranteed, the most of lyrics with translations are supplied. :)
This way, please.

Something I posted earlier this week that might be of interest to this comm ( Read more... )

I've fallen in love with a certain song, so I thought, why not to share it?
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Over at following_Sea this month we're going to be reccing music dating from, associated with and inspired by the Age of Sail. I've posted the first playlist, a selection of songs mostly from the English folk tradition, over at my journal if anyone wants to head over for a listen :)

English sailors, American navyboys and gay pirates

Cross posted to anteros_lmc and following_sea

Tomorrow is the 262th birthday of my favourite admiral. While I usually restrict my Collingwooditis to the Old Cuddy blog, I’d like to recommend to you the following event:

9th October, 2010, 8pm, £ 13.50, concessions: £ 7.00
The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead, in association with the
Collingwood 2010 Festival:

THE NEW SCORPION BAND:
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If anyone is interested I've just added a short post on contemporary naval ballads over at my LJ. It briefly covers The Amazon Frigate, which describes the engagement between the Amazon, Indefatigable and the Droits de l' Homme; an article on "Ballads of the The Great Mutiny of 1797" and an online edition of The Naval Records Society's 1907 ( Read more... )

I'm not entirely sure that this counts as Age of Sail, since it's definitely modern in style (although I got some inspiration from a 19th C dance), but I'm hoping it falls into the same category as icons and modern writing and so on. If it shouldn't be here, please say.Anyway, a while ago I discovered that there was a Scottish country dance called ( Read more... )

I was listening to a repeat of a radio programme this morning and one of the segments was about the portrait of the musician held in the National Gallery of Victoria and it also included some details about the unfortunate fate of his body after his death.

Here is a photo of the portrait -


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