Spotlight: Wellington Sea Shanty Society EP Release Tour

Modern day Popeyes of our nation's cultural capital, Wellington Sea Shanty Society are weighing anchor and navigating their way to ports all around Aotearoa New Zealand this winter. The ocean-going ensemble of Lake Davineer, Vorn dont Le Père Était Marin, Young Nic, Tomas el Largo, and Louis Quatorze are in the middle of a launch tour for their new Never Mind the Rowlocks, Here's the Wellington Sea Shanty Society EP, a rollicking six shanty collection with a distinctly local flavour, which you can holler along with below Swabs and landlubbers alike can catch the crew this week at Point Chevalier Sailing Club, Leigh Sawmill Cafe and Calliope Sea Scouts Hall — back home in the coming weeks for a two day residency at Breaker Bay Community Hall...

"Just when everyone is lamenting the empty galleys of the good ship Wellington, and those ol’ scurvy-mongers are promising renewed bounty if you would only tack five degrees to port or starboard come election time, these songs remind us the sea at least will sustain us, and there’s rum and (metaphorical) guns for them that wants to fight" - Lin Seal, Wellington Nautical History Monthly

Wellington Sea Shanty Society EP Release Tour

Friday 3rd July - Point Chevalier Sailing Club, Auckland
Saturday 4th July - Leigh Sawmill Cafe, Leigh
Sunday 5th July - Calliope Sea Scouts Hall, Devonport
Friday 31st July - Breaker Bay Community Hall, Wellington (6:45pm)
Saturday 1st August - Breaker Bay Community Hall, Wellington (1:30pm)
Saturday 1st August - Breaker Bay Community Hall, Wellington (6:45pm)

Tickets on sale HERE via UTR