Tens of thousands gather annually in Falmouth for the international sea shanty festival, celebrating the revival of maritime folk music. Viral hits like "Wellerman" sparked global interest, especially ...

Home Free and The Longest Johns, known for a cappella country stylings and TikTok-viral sea shanties, will perform at the Peoria Civic Center's Prairie Home Alliance Theater Oct. 1. The Longest Johns ...

Merchant sailors (and music fans from modern day) have been singing traditional shanties about life on the waves since at least the early 19th century. But you don't need a big body of water to make a ...

Nathan Evans was working as a mail carrier when he uploaded his cover of an old whaling tune. Now he has a folk-inspired album of his own songs, which he promises people can still “sing in the car.” ...

This year’s college basketball season has been full of surprises for fans of Rick Pitino’s St. John’s Red Storm, and Thursday night produced another one. During an episode of “The Tonight Show ...

Nathan Evans is a singer from the fine town of Airdrie in Scotland and, during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, became TikTok famous for a very old reason: sea shanties. This young man is a ...

Long ago, when most of the world was outside of their homes, working, growing, building, hunting, and living off the land (and not on social media machines), the work song was as important as any bit ...

In the genomes of the bizarre fish that are related to sea horses, scientists found certain key growth genes were missing. By Kate Golembiewski Among the ocean’s menagerie of bizarre creatures, sea ...

The Longest Johns, makers of raucous merriment, came to London during the last week of April 2022, playing at Scala in King’s Cross, in North London. Digital Journal was present and bopping along. For ...

Like all of you, I’ve been stuck in my own home a lot for the last two years. Unlike many of you, though, at no point during that time did I make my own bread. Nor did I learn any Tik Tok dances or ...

Singer Luke Taylor's voice is instantly recognizable to anyone who has spent time on TikTok. Taylor's strikingly deep voice and contribution to a rendition of "The Wellerman," a sea shanty in which ...