The Hoosiers, Tide Lines and Wellerman to play Dornoch Festival

Indie pop act The Hoosiers, Highland folk pop band Tide Lines and sea shanty singer Nathan Evans - aka Wellerman - are to ...
ABC7

'The Wellerman': 19th Century sea shanty tops charts amid viral TikTok trend

It's folly to examine why some things go viral on the internet, and by doing so one risks discounting the beauty of the simplest answer: They just do. Nothing makes sense. Roll with it. Or at least, ...
Connecticut Post

TikTok’s viral ‘Wellerman’ isn’t a real shanty — and more facts about maritime songs

“Soon may the wellerman come, to bring us sugar and tea and rum one day, when the tonguing is done we’ll take our leave and go” is a refrain many folks are familiar with thanks to the viral popularity ...
The Conversation

The viral ‘Wellerman’ sea shanty is also a window into the remarkable cross‑cultural whaling history of Aotearoa New Zealand

In a year of surprises, one of the more pleasant was the recent runaway viral popularity of 19th century sea shanties on TikTok. A collaborative global response to pandemic isolation, it saw singers ...