More than 160 songs drawn from recordings and archives of Maine singers and collectors; powerful stories of sailing, fishing, storms, shipwreck, piracy, sea ba

White-winged schooners once dominated commerce and culture on the Great Lakes, and songs relieved the hours on board, but that way of life and its music ended w

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements