Sammy Leary is a Tāmaki Makaurau based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and historian known for his work over the last two decades as both a solo performer and with local punk and folk groups such as Moosmbasil, Swampy Tonk, the Royal Fortune and Gráinneog.
Sammy has spent many years collecting and performing both original and traditional folk songs which are delivered in his trademark tenor voice. He performs with a wide range of instruments including the tenor banjo, concertina, bones and musical saw.
This will be a solo show of songs and stories of Aotearoa's colonial history - the sea shanties, old ballads and work chants sung by the sailors, sealers, wives and whalers, adventurers and bushmen, who sang out their joy, humour, or misery during their hard-slog work and after hours; about bully bosses and fair blokes, madams and murderers, hardships underground and weird happenings above; about social milestones, triumphs, shipwrecks and other disasters.
Floor singers first half.
