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  • 10/06/2025
Coming up this week, we’re revisiting our traditional folk music heritage with a sea shanty crew and a day of dance in Lancashire.
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00:00Coming up this week, we're revisiting our traditional folk music heritage with a sea shanty crew and a day of dance in Lancashire.
00:09Slippy surfaces and fog irons are not a good combination.
00:13Neither are man or crids, either.
00:15I play this, which is a traditional shanty instrument.
00:25It's a monkey stick or a lager phone named after all the bottle tops that are on it.
00:30This is a traditional shanty instrument, and when the shanty man was beating out the tune, he needed something to beat the tune with, and so this was what he used.
00:39I think the public are generally very supportive. I think they enjoy it.
00:44I think it's probably something that they come out on a Saturday morning and don't expect to see.
01:00One of the most waktu is because of the food...

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