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Bennett Konesni sings a sea shanty while raising a sail on his ketch last month in Belfast, Maine. Konesni started singing sea shanties aboard a schooner in Penobscot Bay and has since traveled the world studying work songs. The app TikTok helped sea shanties surge into the mainstream.
Konesni holds a book of sea shanties, work songs that have helped sailors on long ocean journeys to break up the tedium. The genre is seeing a global revival among people bored and isolated by the coronavirus pandemic. Previous Next
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PORTLAND, Maine There once was a tune that tickled the Internet’s fancy/When TikTok revived the humble sea shanty/The views came fast, the fad could last/Go, read about it go:People are stuck at home, toiling away, getting bored, going stir.
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