Songs of the Sea Social Sing with Shinbone Alley

TEMPO Lounge — Last Thursdays of the Month • 7:00–9:00pm

Come one, come all and learn how to sing for the wind and the waves! Join in maritime songs of ol' at a group sing-along led by Alex Harvey and Shinbone Alley.

Alex Harvey is an old-world folklorist who performs street ballads and songs of the sea in a musical project, Shinbone Alley. At his performances, listeners learn to celebrate the haunting intercultural exchange of 18th- and 19th-century maritime music whose ingredients traveled from the furthest corners of the globe to be remade and stitched anew by sailors of every shade and shape at port and at sea. By teaching the audience to join in on most of the tunes in his gatherings, Harvey and Shinbone Alley build bridges of time through communal singing.

This music includes:
- Sea Shanties
- Broadsheet ballads
- Come-All-Ye’s
- Last Good Nights
- Hard Luck Satires
- Brothel Boleros
- Lovesick Dirges
- Whaling Serenades

Guest song-leaders who perform in rotation with Shinbone Alley include Aldo Lavaggi, Jordan Shapiro, Alan Short, The Johnson Girls, Jerry Bryant and many more.

Suggested donation: $15. Donations directly support the artists.

Event is in Tempo Lounge. Enter the building through the side door on Hunter St.

All donations support Tempo Kingston, a project of Kingston Music Initiative (KMI).

Kingston Music Initiative is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, recognized by the IRS. Our EIN is 99-0864420. Contributions to Kingston Music Initiative are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.