The indie folkrock choir/band Storm Weather Shanty Choir, from the seaside and west coast of Norway, arrived safely back to Norway after their first time to U.S in September.
Thanks to Amy and Zachary for wanting us to play at their wedding in Kennebunk and getting us over to the US. Thanks to the audience and wonderful venues in New York: Parkside Lounge, Rockwood Musichall, The Living Room. Thanks to Duffys Tavern in Kennebunk for letting us play there and to the great audience and wonderful people making this tour an adventure for lifetime for all of us in SWSC....we hope to come back soon!
Thx for the Norwegian arts of council for supporting us on this trip!
Storm Weather Shanty Choir consists of six singers and musicians with backgrounds ranging from rock, pop (guitar player from Magnet (N) and William Hut (N), Roald Kaldestad), metal and folk, and for credibilitys sake, a sailor/shanty man who has sailed for many seasons aboard the tall ship SS Statsraad Lehmkuhl who also has a masters degree on shanties and seasongs. We have been together for almost ten years, we claim to be one of the most curious live rock/folk acts in Norway and we always give extraordinary liveshows, were songs from the seven seas get mixed from a capella to full instrumentation, rock n roll style!
Quoted in a concert review from the rockstage Checkpoint Charlie in Stavanger (Norway): "The untraditional Storm Weather Shanty Choir rocked the place with shanties from the seven seas, renewed with both Ramones and Slayer references and mindblowing mandolinsolos"
- Played more then 200 concerts, in clubs, pubs, rock and folk festivals in Norway, England, Germany, Switzerland and USA.
- Storm Weather Shanty Choir has played support for, and together with the most famous artists of Norway such as Kaizers Orchestra, Odd Nordstoga, Vamp, Katzenjammer,and also the Nashville pirate Dave Cloud and the Power of Gospel (US)
More information about Storm Weather Shanty Choir:
More ambitious than ever, the Norwegian Storm Weather Shanty Choir released their fourth album Way Hey (and away we’ll go) on April 27 2009 (both digital and through the international distributor Musikkoperatorene /www.musikkoperatorene.no.). The album got great reviews overall! Together with producer Bjørn Bunes (Poor Rich Ones, Magnet, William Hut, Poor Rich Ones) the six piece extraordinary rock choir, from the west coast island of Stord, has finally managed to capture their raw and captivating live energy on tape. All songs are experimentational interpretations of traditional shanties and forebitters from the great days of sail. Storm Weather Shanty Choir has trough their ten year old history enjoyed a growing respect from both rock and folk musicians both national and international, and this is mirrored in the list of guests on the album. Here you’ll find Norwegian master fiddlers Nils Økland and Sigrid Moldestad side by side with Norwegian pop artist William Hut and the legendary Dave Cloud from Nashville
Short CV:
- Established in 2000
- Have released four albums, and in 2008 came two singles (Drunken Sailor og Boney)
- First group in Norway to release a single through a newspaper. 8000 copies of Drunken Sailor was distributed through local paper Sunnhordland in may 2008.
We are ambitious as ever, and are heading for the salty stars!
so how are my most favorite musical vikings doing?People are still talking about your set st Duffys!Must say we all enjoyed it tremendously!It's nice to reflect back on peoples roots.Far too much people here are like I'm an American blah,blah blah...Well it's far time we got back to all our roots and celebrated customs,cultures,tradions,heritages afterall none of us were just here.We all came exhiled from countries all over the world.Including the Natives.A Native American was an Asian in exhile 1106...I can say that because I'm half native and I'm Irish,Greek,Albanian,French too lol only in America!Anywho hope you all have a most wonderful weekend!Much love,light,and blessings as infinate as the universe=Always *Virginia*Keep on making that music!!!Rock on=LOUD+Proud!
Hei og skip ohoi! Fantastisk flotte saker det her. Har spilt dere hele dagen her ute på bøljan blå, som er midt i Nordsjøen! Dessverre ser jeg at jeg jobber når dere kommer til Oslo, men satser på nye muligheter. Lykke til med lansering av ny CD!
Oi Oi Sailors! ey up brothers? Thanx for ya friednship and message.We dig ya music 2, its friggin' energetic!We'll c back later for ya news! Have a folktastic spring and summerand wish ya a lot of rum or whiskey,what ya like! Sláinte! Hail to Éire! Dog Save The Queen! the ratS
Bergen Mandolinband med ny låt og vårens spillinger!
Vi har lagt ut ein ny låt. Ta gjerne en tur og hør på den. Og er du i nærheten av følgende steder i februar/mars må du gjerne ta en tur for å høre oss live:
Hey you crazy Norwegians ! Happy New Yeaaaaaar ! May 2009 be full of nice people, nice music, nice trips...nice everything !! Les Pirates PS : on vous aaaaiiiiime !! =D
Hey youuu !! Still firing every place you visit, I guess !! I hope we'll see you somewhere, sometimes and we'll be able to sing together :) See youuu !! Mannick for Les Pirates
