What we’re about
If you're curious, you can watch a video on YouTube of clips of us performing in the Tea House Theatre in April 2024. There's a link to it below. We perform there once a month on third Friday of the month. from 7.30 pm to 10 pm.
We also perform at the William Morris Pub in Merton Abbey Mills once a month from 8pm on the 1st Thursday of the month.
We hand out chorus sheets to all guests, and nearly all the audience join in singing the choruses.
Please email me or phone me on 020 8542 1490 if you'd like to join our group, or if you are looking for a Shanty Singing group to perform in a private party or in a London pub in Zone 1
George Tudor-Hart
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Shanty Singing in new room at the William Morris PubThe William Morris Pub, London
Below is a video of us on YouTube, singing in the new room in the William Morris pub, with a good participating audience in January 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSuroXYjbI
This event will consist of three lively forty minute sets, mainly of well known Shanty Songs, with typed chorus sheets handed out to all guests, and we have got better over the past two and a half years, to my own pleasant surprise.
In this room, downstairs in the pub, only Shanty fans will be invited, so there will be no annoyingly loud conversations from those who see live singing as background music to their shouted conversations
Happy Hour, when house drinks are half price, is from 6pm to 7pm
It's an Edwardian bar in picturesque Merton Abbey Mills, which is ten minutes walk from Colliers Wood tube station.
Or you can catch a 57, 131 or 219 bus from Wimbledon station or Tooting Broadway station to Merton Abbey Mills bus stop, and they run every two or three minutes. We get a lively crowd, nearly all of whom join in singing the choruses.
Good quality hot food is available which is cooked on the premises.
Towards the end of the evening we take a few requests from audience members, who are invited on stage to sing the song with us, but only if they want to.
We usually perform here on the first Thursday of the month, and have been singing here for two and a half years, and it don't seem a day too long
Newcomers and experienced shanty singers are equally welcome. It's easy to join in singing the choruses, especially after we've lent you a chorus song book and you've had a few drinks.
George - Shanty Singing at the Tea House Theatre in VauxhallTea House Theatre Tea House Theatre 139 Vauxhall Walk Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens Vauxhall SE11 5HL, London (map), London
The Tea House Theatre is a homely Victorian pub in Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, and is five minutes walk from Vauxhall tube and railway station. There's tables, chairs and quality food for about fifty guests. It's a ticketed event at £10, there's always a lively crowd who join in singing in the choruses, or thumping on the tables- and we solicit this by handing out chorus song sheets to all guests. We also take a few requests, and on occasion invite members of the audience to sing with us on stage
Here is a link to a video on YouTube of us singing at the Tea House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4cjSQm-JRMYou can buy tickets in advance from the Tea House Theatre website, or on the door. Below is the link for buying tickets in advance.
https://www.teahousetheatre.co.uk/shanty-singersWe have been performing there on the third Friday of the month for one and a half years. We and the management at the Tea House try to provide a warm and welcoming atmosphere in a cosy homely Victorian home from home
- Shanty Singing in new room at the William Morris PubThe William Morris Pub, London
Below is a video of us on YouTube, singing in the new room in the William Morris pub, with a good participating audience in January 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSuroXYjbI
This event will consist of three lively forty minute sets, mainly of well known Shanty Songs, with typed chorus sheets handed out to all guests, and we have got better over the past two and a half years, to my own pleasant surprise.
In this room, downstairs in the pub, only Shanty fans will be invited, so there will be no annoyingly loud conversations from those who see live singing as background music to their shouted conversations
Happy Hour, when house drinks are half price, is from 6pm to 7pm
It's an Edwardian bar in picturesque Merton Abbey Mills, which is ten minutes walk from Colliers Wood tube station.
Or you can catch a 57, 131 or 219 bus from Wimbledon station or Tooting Broadway station to Merton Abbey Mills bus stop, and they run every two or three minutes. We get a lively crowd, nearly all of whom join in singing the choruses.
Good quality hot food is available which is cooked on the premises.
Towards the end of the evening we take a few requests from audience members, who are invited on stage to sing the song with us, but only if they want to.
We usually perform here on the first Thursday of the month, and have been singing here for two and a half years, and it don't seem a day too long
Newcomers and experienced shanty singers are equally welcome. It's easy to join in singing the choruses, especially after we've lent you a chorus song book and you've had a few drinks.
George - Shanty Singing aboard the Golden Hind, London BridgeThe Golden Hinde, London
This will be our third performance on the Golden Hide. The last two quickly sold out.
You will be able to listen to live traditional Sea Shanty songs from the C16th to C19th, and join in singing the choruses, on the lower deck of the Golden Hinde ship which is in dry dock close to London Bridge.You will also have the opportunity to explore the ship itself, which is dramatic.
Chorus sheets will be handed out to all guests, and there will be a bar serving soft and alcoholic drinks at standard pub prices. There will also be free drink prizes for the best dressed sailor and best chorus singers.
You can watch a promotional video for this event on YouTube via this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM_rZ9FXoroTickets are £10 and available from Eventbrite via the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shanty-singers-of-colliers-wood-on-the-golden-hinde-tickets-1270172061829?
