Weigh, hey and up she rises! Meet the female sea shanty crews bringing women aboard

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This is a species about coming together for a song song, but many of them assume that sea tum groups are only for deep voice men. Since traditional folk music has resurrection in the 2020s, an increasing number of Australian women are on stage. Shantilillies is a group of five women who decided to crack the species from Albany in Western Australia, and they never looked back. This weekend is another chance for Albany to show the crew's talents in his hometown with the third International Folk'nshanty Festival. Singer Tina Dawson has been with group since the time when he and other fans of genre came together in 2017. "A smile and a drink is very fun."Said. Singer Floss Fulton said that performance with the group brought a friendship spirit. "You may be having a really bad day when we go to practice or exhibit performance, but then you feel very good mentally and physically."Said. All for one and one for everyone Between the open seas, many of the seafarers return to business songs and still associate sea slums with baritone vocals with cheerful men. But Fulton believes that there is a universal attractiveness. "Slums are traditionally sea songs, but essentially working songs and women sing working songs for centuries," he said. "I always go back to my inheritance, in the external hebride of Scotland, where women sing to do something, like doing their jobs." "We started to put more harmony because we don't have this deep sound depth and no."Said. Ten -year veterans are entering a recording studio A feeling shared by the Fremantle Group, which has been performing for ten years. Meredith Lane, the band's songs on more appropriate keys to sing songs and female perspective to adapt lyrics, he said. “Finding songs for women to sing is actually quite difficult,” he said. "We've found few, we've dealt with a few, and we're writing little. "There is a song by Shel Filerstein called Mermaid. We changed it to Mermate." ShanTies for the 21st century Brisbane -based singers Elyse "Fishatrick" Fitzpatrick and Kristy "Capstanfield" Stanfield belongs to salty sirens, a duo embracing the sea spirit of the sea shanty. "They're very stupid, and ShanTies lend themselves to make their movements on the spot." Stanfield said Stanfield.Said. "We often want the audience to help us." "We are separated with stories about the songs and episodes of the history we find interesting."Said. Salted sirens, Elyse "Fishpatrick" Fitzpatrick and Kristy "capstanfield" Stanfield. For salty sirens, it is important be involved in everyone who wants to have fun, and this means address some of outdated words that reflect the long history of species. "Quite sexist and racist, quite severe, some lyrics of the songs. So we've done a lot to change them to be a little more contemporary."Said. Just as performance is related to coming together, the group said that many young people are reflected to their masses, including LGBTQI people. We really dra

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