Second Big Sing Song

The second of the group 'Big Sing' songs are now detailed below. 'Sing you now After Me' is an English Round collected in the 15th Century by Thomas Ravenscroft who lived in Sussex. It is one of a large collections of Rounds celebrating the joy of singing together.

Sing you now After Me

Sing you now after me,
And as I sing sing ye,
So shall we well agree,
Five parts in unity,
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong bell!

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Performance Set(s)

Arundel Set

Here is the set for Arundel on Saturday

Sweet Ladies of Plymouth
Roll the old Chariot
Randy Dandy-O
Rolling Down to Old Maui
Old Fid
Mingulay Boat Song
Littlehampton Collier Lads
Bold Riley
John Kanaka
Bonnie Ship the Diamond
Here's a Health
Its Time to Go Now

For Littlehampton we can keep the same order and just make our way through them a few at a time. If we need to we can repeat a few at the end.

The Arundel Set is at 12:45 and for Littlehampton the first set is 11am. Can you all please be in the designated location (see diary details) 10 minutes prior to the commencement of the set. Remember those stripes if you fancy wearing something appropriate.

See you all on the Flowing Tide !!

Shanty Practice Night

Tuesday 13th August - Shanty Performance Practice Session

A fantastic Shanty practice night at Emily's house to go through the songs for the performances this weekend. Everyone arrived promptly at 7:30 so we could get a full session in to go through the songs for Arundel Festival and Littlehampton Waterfront Festival this weekend. How we managed to get 32 members into the lounge and kitchen area at Emily's was amazing. The rooms were overwhelmed by the quality and volume of singing. I do not intend to list all the songs that we went through but just to say we managed to sing through at least once each song we intend to sing out over the weekend. A range of unison and harmony versions were sung led by our wonderful song mistress. Plenty of refreshments supported the evening. A full list of song sets will be published in time for the weekend. A big thanks to our host for allowing the use of her house and a biggest thank you to Jonny and the Girls for allowing us to invade their personal space for the evening.

Finally thanks to Tommy for supplying a few snaps of the proceedings.

SSS Performance Weather Forecaster.

Additional Shanty Session

Details about an additional Shanty Session on the 13th are now available on the Diary Dates page. This is to support the performances in Arundel, Littlehampton and Newhaven.

The next practice night has been arranged to go through the songs for the forthcoming events. The sessions will take place at Emily's house on Tuesday 13th August. 7:30pm for an 8pm start. An email will be circulated with the address details.

During the evening we will practicing the following songs which be used to compile the sets for the August events:

• Bonny ship the Diamond
• Bold Riley (maybe if we practice it again next tues, it was sounding nice last eve!)
• Here's a Health
• It's time to Go Now
• John Kanaka
• Leave her Jonny
• Littlehampton Colliers
• Mingulay
• Sweet Ladies of Plymouth
• Old Fid
• Pleasant and Delightful (if we need it which we may not)
• Randy Dandy O (with another practice perhaps)
• Roll the Chariot
• Rollin' Down to Old Maui
• Roll Alabama
• Spanish Ladies

I think we should have a sing of Mollymawk and see if we feel confident enough about it but it might not be ready yet?

An email will be issued to members containing the actual sets for the different gigs. They will also be listed here along with all the necessary info about the where's and when's. 

Update to Songbook

Last Version of the Secret Shore Singers Songbook available. New songs added to align with the last Shanty Session.

Bold Riley
We Three Jolly Fisherman