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#50: The Balclutha and the Chantey Sing
#50: The Balclutha and the Chantey Sing
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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Mar 11, 2006
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The Park Service website reads simply "sing traditional working songs aboard a floating vessel." The songs? Sea chanteys. The vessel? A majestic iron-hulled squarerigger called the "Balclutha". I had no idea how inspiring the experience could be, nor how powerful. It turned out I had inadvertently wandered into a 25 year old San Francisco tradition: […]
Released:
Mar 11, 2006
Format:
Podcast episode
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