Posted: Jan 17, 2021 3:43 PM NT | Last Updated: January 18
Musician Sean McCann began writing new shanties shortly before the trend ignited on TikTok. (Stephen Andrews)
It s perhaps one of the more unusual trends to emerge from TikTok, the video-sharing app popular largely among teenagers and young adults, but a sudden interest in sea shanties has taken the internet by storm.
Newfoundland musician Séan McCann had taken a break from writing music as he and his wife worked on a new book, but was eager to return to songwriting with a renewed focus on sea shanties. Initially, his kids were less than impressed.