A 'great deal of fun' will be coming to Glasgow's Riverside this September.
The Glasgow Sea Shanty Festival, which will take place on The Tall Ship Glenlee, will be making its return to the city on Saturday, September 2.
The day will be filled with a range of family-friendly activities including stories, workshops, face painting, a light show and free liveDescribing the festival as a day of 'sheer pleasure', organiser Tom Malone told the Glasgow Times:"It is so great to be back."We have some great musicians like The Keelers, who are a well-known shanty band in England, Glasgows own Muldoon's Picnic who perform acapella and LocTup Together who have been singing shanties for years.
He said:"I used to attend the Clydebuilt Festival on the Quayside, which would finish in the late afternoon without any evening events or presentations. "One year I attended I was thinking of this lack of opportunity and at that point, I was really into sea shanties. "I noticed that these shanty festivals were popping up across England in the likes of Halifax and even France that are very popular there and attract thousands of people but there was none in"Tying in with the Clydebuilt festival, I then thought I could create a mini festival of shanty singing and so, that's what I did."Though we had to go online for a few years during Covid, we were able to come back in person in 2022 and have continued to grow our following.
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