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      Music in the Atrium: Sea Shanties

      Music in the Atrium: Sea Shanties. Detail of a logbook ship sketch

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      Location: Main Atrium

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      SENSORY CONSIDERATIONS: This program will contribute to the sound in the Atrium. If you would like to borrow noise canceling headphones, please pick up a KultureCity bag at the coatroom.

      This month, PEM launches Music in the Atrium, our new concert series featuring local and visiting musicians on select Sundays!

      Sail away with us during August for three stirring sessions of sea shanties. These rousing work songs were once sung to accompany the rhythms of labor aboard large sailing vessels.

      August 11: This performance has been canceled.

      August 18: Seafaring tunes with Josie Wacker and Crowninshield Punch

      Musician Josie Wacker gathers a new group of musicians to share hearty maritime favorites.

      August 25: Whaling songs with Lynn Noel and Ken Mattson

      Enjoy sea shanties and whaling songs that were popular during the era chronicled by Moby-Dick, drawn from collections such as Gail Huntington’s Songs The Whalemen Sang.

      Music in the Atrium is PEM’s live concert series that features local and visiting performers from a variety of musical traditions and styles. Concerts take place on select Sundays from 11:30 am–1:30 pm. Explore upcoming shows at pem.org/events.

      About the Collaborators

      Crowninshield Punch
      Crowninshield Punch

      Crowninshield Punch is made up of Carl (he/him), Mason (she/her), Mikayla (she/her) and Darcy (he/they) and led by Josie Wacker. This crew of actors, historians and musicians has been performing together since 2016. Founded on the hot bricks of Essex Street between reenactments of the Salem Witch Trials, the group boasts a repertoire of folk songs spanning almost five centuries.

      Lynn Noel
      Lynn Noel

      Lynn Noel is based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and has performed at maritime festivals across New England, the Great Lakes, the Pacific Northwest, California, the UK, the Netherlands and the Baltic region. Her clear, powerful voice is well suited to "real head-back-and-let-fly sea chanteys" (Mystic Seaport). Noel offers a suite of special programs on women and the sea and manages the musical network and events calendar www.nechanteysings.com. She serves as Program Chair of the New England Folk Festival and is the founder of the Boston Area Chantey and Maritime Sing.

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