"She sings sea shanties down by the sea shore"... CARYL P. WEISS presents a rousing program of traditional American and British sea shanties. The multimedia concert/lecture is both educational and entertaining, and is based on audience participation. SEA SHANTIES are the work songs of the sea. These songs were sung on board the tall ships to provide a cadence for the men to work to--so that they could "heave", or push, together to raise an anchor up around a capstan, to "haul", or pull, together to raise a yard and sail up a mast, or working long hours pumping out the ships' bilges. Music made these jobs much easier to bear.
	PERFORMANCES: With the sea shanty groups Outward Bound, the Liverpool Judies, and The Beached Buoys VENUES INCLUDE: Tall ship Gazela Primeiro (Philadelphia) Philadelphia Maritime Museum Mystic Seaport, CT South Street Seaport, NY Penn's Landing Sea/Song Festival (director and performer); Phila., 1983 Philadelphia Folk Festival With the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music New Haven (CT) Oyster Festival National Maritime Heritage Festival; Newport, RI United States Navy banquet Kerrville (Texas) Folk Festival Dickens on the Strand; Galveston, TX Tall ship Elissa Texas Folklife Festival; San Antonio Grant with Texas Commission on the Arts Cowes Week Races, England Cambridge (England) Folk Festival Lancaster (England) Maritime Festival Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race Annapolis (MD) Maritime Museum Mariner's Museum; Newport News, VA Schooner Woodwind; Annapolis, MD Commissioning of Schooner Sultata; Chestertown, MD Christening of Schooner Virginia; Norfolk CARYL P. WEISS is a performer of 500 years of folk music from both sides of the Atlantic, and has played about 38 instruments. She's released eight albums, and has appeared on many others. Her touring has taken her to 26 states and 12 countries, and she's apeared on numerous TV and radio broadcasts (including NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion" ). She's won a number of songwriting awards, has published three music books, and has appeared in four movies and on TV's "Walker, Texas Ranger". She was commissioned an Admiral in the Texas Navy by Governor Ann Richards.