Live performances by Seth Lakeman, Benji Kirkpatrick, Ben Nicholls & Geoff Lakeman
Friday 30 September, 2022. Doors 7pm. Performance held under the Flying Flotilla in the Museum’s Main Hall. Standing gig.
Sea Song Sessions is a collection of British maritime folk songs and sea shanties, performed by Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman & Jack Rutter which will be released on 30th September on Topic Records.
You can hear songs from the Sea Song Sessions and more LIVE at the Museum and other one-off harbourside and onboard locations.
Tickets
£25
This is a standing gig. Doors open at 7pm.
Sea Song Sessions
Three exclusive and one-off harbourside and onboard performances from some of the leading names in folk music who will sail from show to show!
‘Sea Song Sessions’ is a collection of British maritime folk songs and sea shanties, performed Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman & Jack Rutter which will be released on 30 September on Topic Records.
You can hear songs from the Sea Song Sessions and more LIVE at three, one-off harbourside and onboard performances from musicians on the album and friends. They will sail by Tallship Anny from performance to performance. Join them as they dock along the Cornish coastline on their voyage!
The concept for the album came to them in 2021, when they were asked to prepare an evening of sea-related songs for the Folkestone Festival. Boden’s celebrated work with Bellowhead (of course no strangers to sea-faring songs) and Ben Nicholls’ band, Kings of The South Seas (who play exclusively maritime-influenced music), Seth Lakeman’s own extensive body of work from the South West as well as Emily Portman and Jack Rutter’s sizeable oceanic repertoires, all formed the natural foundation and inspiration for these acclaimed musicians to conceive the Sea Song Sessions. They chose to record material from each artist’s repertoire, traditional songs and some newly written for these sessions.
Full shoreside Cornish tour
Looe Harbour
Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls and Jack Rutter
Tuesday 27 September, doors 6pm.
Tallship Anny will come alongside and act as stage, audience will view the performance from the East Quay on Looe Harbour
Charlestown Harbour
Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls and Jack Rutter
Wednesday 28 September, doors 6pm.
Below decks on Sailing Barge Lady Daphne alongside in Charlestown. Only 40 tickets available so this will be an intimate event, including meet and greet with the musicians.
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
Seth Lakeman, Benji Kirkpatrick, Ben Nicholls and Geoff Lakeman
Friday 30 September, doors 7pm.
Performance in the Museum’s Main Hall under the Flying Flotilla of small boats.
