LONDON — With his renditions of centuries-old sea shanties, Nathan Evans has spawned a global craze on the ultra-modern social media platform TikTok. Millions have watched his rendition of "Wellerman" ...
Spotify data reinforces the idea that the sea shanty is one of 2021's first breakout musical styles, revealing massive increases in streaming of tracks like "Wellerman," as performed by The Longest ...
From Wellerman to Drunken Sailor, sea shanties are attracting the attention of landlubber TikTokers. "It went wild. I don't really know what happened," says the guy at the center of it all. Erin ...
LONDON — With his renditions of centuries-old sea shanties, Nathan Evans has spawned a global craze on the ultra-modern social media platform TikTok. Millions have watched his rendition of "Wellerman" ...
Last week James Revell Carr, an ethnomusicology professor at the University of Kentucky and a scholar on maritime song, was watching the chaotic news cycle on TV when he had an idle, discouraging ...
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Break out your pirate telescope, because sea shanties are the hot trend you didn't see coming. This TikTok fad, which began with Scottish singer Nathan Evans, is beyond catchy and an art form in ...
Long ago, when most of the world was outside of their homes, working, growing, building, hunting, and living off the land (and not on social media machines), the work song was as important as any bit ...
'The Wellerman' remix NFT. Credit: Press. The viral remix of sea shanty hit ‘The Wellerman’ is set to be sold as a VIP collection of NFTs. Back in January, Scottish postman Nathan Evans released an ...
When I woke up last Friday morning, I realized I had several messages. All of them were links to a TikTok video of several guys singing a song, a sea shanty from the 19th century called “Wellerman,” ...
Just over a week ago, Nathan was a postman in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, recording songs and posting them on Tik Tok. His rendition of traditional folk song The Wellerman was swept up on the rising ...