What is the sea shanty from TikTok?

The Wellerman
They are dubbed Sea Shanty TikTok, or ShantyTok. Whaling ballad ‘The Wellerman’ has its roots in Australia and New Zealand. Originally titled ‘Soon May The Wellerman Come’, it was written in New Zealand by an unknown teenage sailor some time between 1860 and 1870.

Who sings the sea shanty on TikTok?

Nathan Evans
Who is Nathan Evans? Nathan Evans, 26, is a Scottish singer who found fame on TikTok. In December 2020 he uploaded a clip of himself singing to the video app. The song was called The Scotsman, then he posted another called The Wellerman which is a 19th century New Zealand sea shanty.

Who started The Wellerman TikTok?

Global interest in ShantyTok began when a postman called Nathan Evans, who lives near Glasgow in Scotland, posted a video on TikTok of him singing “Soon May The Wellerman Come”, a 19th-century shanty sung by sailors crewing ships owned the Weller brothers, founders of a whaling station in New Zealand.

Who sings the sea shanty Wellerman?

Wellerman – Sea Shanty/Artists

Is 2021 the year of the sea shanty?

The Sea Shanty is the musical trend of 2021 that we (and the world) are loving at the moment; it all started when Nathan Evans sang “The Wellerman” on TikTok. Global (02 February 2021) – 2020 embraced music in a way that united the world. It is the Sea Shanty.

Is The Wellerman a real sea shanty?

“’Wellerman’ is not really a shanty,” said David Coffin, a folk musician and music educator in Cambridge, Mass. It’s a whaling song with the beat of a shanty, he said, but its purpose is that of a ballad — to tell a story, not to help sailors keep time.

What is the shanty song?

shanty, also spelled Chantey, or Chanty (from French chanter, “to sing”), English-language sailors’ work song dating from the days of sailing ships, when manipulating heavy sails, by means of ropes, from positions on the deck constituted a large part of a sailor’s work.

Is the Wellerman real?

The song is believed to have been written in New Zealand around 1860–1870. While its authorship is unknown, it may have been written by a pirate or shore whaler and may have served as a “cutting-in shanty” that whalers would sing as they slaughtered a whale.

Is The Wellerman original?

“Soon May the Wellerman Come”, also known as “Wellerman” or “The Wellerman” [ c. 1860–70] is a sea ballad from New Zealand….The Longest Johns version.

“Wellerman”
Label	Decca
Producer(s)	The Longest Johns

What started the sea shanty craze?

Origin of the sea shanty craze When Evans’ rendition of “The Wellerman,” a 19th-century New Zealand whaling song, caught fire, first one TikToker and then another recorded themselves singing different vocal parts on top of Evans.

Is the Wellerman song real?

History. The song is believed to have been written in New Zealand around 1860–1870. While its authorship is unknown, it may have been written by a pirate or shore whaler and may have served as a “cutting-in shanty” that whalers would sing as they slaughtered a whale.

Is sea shanty an old song?

A sea shanty, chantey, or chanty is a genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels….

Sea shanty
Derivative forms	Pirate metal