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Here, you will find an overview of all participating choirs in 2024.
Subject to modifications.


Capstan Shanty Chor Bremen

Kontakt:
Capstan Shanty Chor Bremen e.V.
Gert Schwarz
Robbenplate 42
28259 Bremen
Phone: 0421 58 02 71
eMail:
gert.schwarz (at) t-online.de
www.capstanshantychor-bremen.de

Capstan Shanty Chor Bremen

  • Founded in: 2002
  • Chairman: Gert Schwarz
  • Musical Director: Anna Koch

The Capstan Shanty-Chor from Bremen was founded in 2002. The wide repertoire of more than 100 songs allows the choir to suit to any event.


Chanting Lads

Kontakt:
Chanting Lads
Hans Werther
Korn 60
4271 BR Dussen
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)183 40 20 33
eMail: info (at) chantinglads.nl
www.chantinglads.nl

Chanting Lads

  • Founded in: 2013
  • Members: 6
  • Instruments: accordion

The Chantings Lads seek a challenge in singing and making music in perfect harmony. They sing their own arrangements of shanties, traditional songs and ballads in English, French and Dutch language.


Chor der Kgl. Navigationsschule Timmel e.V.

Kontakt:
Chor der Kgl. Navigationsschule Timmel e.V.
Manfred Buß
1. Vorsitzender
Erlenstraße 3
26629 Großefehn
www.shanty-chor-timmel.de

Chor der Kgl. Navigationsschule Timmel e.V.

The choir was founded in 1987 in the Seefahrtschule Timmel. The main reason was to fill the old navigation school with new life and give it a maritime atmosphere.

The choir's repertoire consists of shanties and seasongs performed by 19 singers.


Easy & Free

Kontakt:
Easy & Free
eMail:
info (at) easyfree.nl
easyfree.nl

Easy & Free

The group of 6 musicians from Giethoorn in the Netherlands mainly performs Irish and Maritime Folk Music.


Ol′Hands Shantymen

Kontakt:
Ol′Hands Shantymen
Henk de Groot
Phone: +31 (0) 55 5 41 11 89
eMail: olhands (at) kpnmail.nl
www.olhands.nl

Ol′Hands Shantymen

  • Founded in: 2003
  • Members: 4
  • Instruments: accordion
  • LPs / CDs: 3

Since 2003 the group from The Netherlands with its four enthusiastic singers is singing shanties and seasongs of the seven seas. Their varied repertoire ranges from original shanties and atmospheric forbitters all performed a capella.


Otterndorfer Shanty-Chor

Kontakt:
Otterndorfer Shantychor
Liedertafel von 1831 e.V.
Detlef Deuber
Herrlichkeitsstraße 99
21745 Hemmoor
Phone: 0 47 71 79 57
eMail:
d.deuber (at) otterndorfershantychor.de
www.otterndorfershantychor.de

Otterndorfer Shantychor

  • Chairman: Detlef Deuber
  • Musical Director: Erika Willenbrink
  • Founded in: 1831
  • Members: 29
  • Instruments: accordion, guitar, bass
  • LPs / CDs: 2

In 2011 the Otterndorfer Shantychor celebrated his 180th anniversary. The choir is one of the oldest in Northern Germany.


Schipperchor Spieka

Kontakt:
Schipperchor des Segelsportvereins Spieka-Neufeld
Gerd Meyn
Feuerweg 61
27639 Wurster Nordseeküste (Nordholz)
Phone: 04741 22 42
eMail:
schipperchor (at) ssv-spieka-neufeld.de
www.ssv-spieka-neufeld.de

Schipperchor Spieka

  • Founded in: 1982
  • Musical Director: Werner Heilmann
  • Chairman: Gerd Meyn

The choir was founded in 1982 by 16 members of the Segelsportverein Spieka-Neufeld. In those days they just wanted to support the annual sailors ball with maritime music, but throughout the years success grew and they have become a well-known choir in the region.


Shanty-Chor Cuxhaven

Kontakt:
Shanty-Chor Cuxhaven e.V.
Kapitän-Alexander-Str. 34
27472 Cuxhaven
Phone: 0 47 21 73 19 54
eMail:
info (at) shanty-chor-cuxhaven.de
www.shanty-chor-cuxhaven.de

Shanty-Chor Cuxhaven

  • Chairman: Dr. Jan A. Bühner
  • Musical Director: Udo Brozio
  • Founded in: 1968
  • Members: 25
  • Instruments: accordion, guitar, bass, rhythm instruments
  • Unforgotten Shows: Kurhaus Interlaken, Dom Regensburg, Dom Truro (GB)
  • Favourite Song: jeder gute Satz für 4-stimmigen Männerchor
  • LPs / CDs: 18 seit 1974

Shanty Chor der Wasserschutzpolizei NRW Duisburg

Kontakt:
Shanty Chor der Wasserschutzpolizei NRW Duisburg
Dietger Lerch
Sittardsberger Allee 227
47249 Duisburg
Phone:02 03 3 98 04 50
eMail: die.ler (at) arcor.de
www.wsp-shantychor.de

Shanty Chor der Wasserschutzpolizei NRW Duisburg

  • Founded in: 1989
  • Musical Director: Stephanie Melisch

Let's get back to 1989.
Dirk-Henning Schnitzler, president of the water police in those days, visits the Düsseldorf Fair "Boot 89" and makes a musical decision: the water police founded a shanty choir. Till then there had not been a shanty choir of the police in Nordrhein-Westfalen and where could it have been settled better than in Duisburg?


Shanty-Chor Gütersloh

Kontakt:
Shanty-Chor Gütersloh e.V.
Egon Henkenjohann
Phone: 05241 5 55 64
www.shantychorguetersloh.de

Shanty-Chor Gütersloh

  • Founded in: 1992
  • Musical Director: Udo Stender

In December 1992 the Shanty-Choir Gütersloh was founded. Today approx. 50 active singers, soloists and musicians (three accordion players, one drummer and one bass player) have a repertoire of more than 90 songs. Udo Stender, musical director, aims at creating an ideal mixture of choir and musicians so that not only the shanties but also maritime evergreens - as sung by Hans Albers and Freddy Quinn - can be performed.


Shanty-Chor Hude

Kontakt:
Shanty Chor Hude e.V.
Fritz Meyer
Taubenstrasse 1
27798 Hude
Phone: 0 44 08 69 48
eMail:
fritz.meyer (at) shanty-chor-hude.de
www.shanty-chor-hude.de

Shanty-Chor Hude

  • Chairman: Fritz Meyer
  • Musical Director: Reinhold Husemann
  • Founded in: 2005
  • Members: 60
  • Instruments: accordion, guitar, bass

Themed "A Sailor′s Heart" the Shanty-Chor Hude tours and presents his repertoire of part music and multilingual, international shanties and seasongs.


Shanty-Chor Lägerdorf

Kontakt:
Shanty-Chor Lägerdorf
Heiner Sülau
25566 Lägerdorf
eMail:
kontakt (at) shanty-chor-laegerdorf
www.shanty-chor-laegerdorf.de

Shanty-Chor Lägerdorf

  • Chairman: Heiner Sülau
  • Founded in: 1988

The choir was founded in 1988.

Some of the singers are bound to shanty music because of their work at the marine and in 2014 a new member joined them who had finished work at the Gorch Fock.

Currently there are 30 active and 42 passive members. For all of them enjoying singing is the most important thing. The choir, however, does not only sing shanties but also well-known seasongs so the audience can join in easily.


Shanty-Chor Spaden e.V.

Kontakt:
Shanty-Chor Spaden e.V.
Herbert Schan
Westruck 36
27619 Schiffdorf-Spaden
Phone: 0471 80 18 64
eMail:
info (at) shanty-chor-spaden.de
www.shanty-chor-spaden.de

Shanty-Chor Spaden

  • Chairman: Herbert Schan
  • Musical Director: Melanie Kuhnert

Once upon a time in 1981 seven singers of the Singgemeinschaft Spaden got together and thought about how to found a men's choir. Since not all of them wanted to just be in a men's choir they decided to form a shanty choir. Thus the choir grew up to 33 singers and 7 musicians (4 accordions, 1 guitar, 1 harmonica, 1 cajon) now performing shanties and seasongs for three voices.


Shantycrew Buitenboord

Kontakt:
Shantycrew Buitenboord
Ruud Niemer
Niederlande
Phone: +31(0)38 4 53 22 74
eMail:
r.niemer (at) planet.nl
www.shantycrewbuitenboord.nl

Shantycrew Buitenboord

  • Chairman: Ruud Niemer

Shantycrew Buitenboord was formed in september 2002. Their hometown is Zwolle. They are a group of 6 enthousiastic men singing shantyies and seasongs. They perform in the original a-capella style led by a shantyman. Most songs are English but they also sing songs in French and Dutch.


Soltauer Shantychor e.V.

Kontakt:
Soltauer Shantychor e.V.
Wilhelm Ruhkopf
Harburger Straße 35
29614 Soltau
Phone: 05191 1 40 68
www.soltauershantychorev.de

Soltauer Shantychor e.V.

  • Chairman: Wilhelm Ruhkopf
  • Musical Director: Hans-Werner Linnich
  • Founded in: 1999

The Soltauer Shantychor e.V. was founded on January 13, 1999 in Soltau right in the heart of the Lüneburger Heath. The choir stands for maritime songs, shanties of the time of windjammers and modern seasongs. With more than 70 songs the repertoire offers a wide range of songs for all opportunities.

The choir currently has 27 active singers and musicians but also passive members enjoying maritime music have joined in.


The Forebitter Men

Kontakt:
The Forebitter Men
Douwe Huizinga
Prins Clausplein 32
NL 8935 DB Leeuwarden
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 6 13 59 98 45
eMail:
theforebittermen (at) kpnmail.nl
www.theforebittermen.nl

The Forebitter Men

The Forebitter Men form an enthusiastic group mainly singing real shanties and seasongs, but also (Irish) folk songs. Easy and full of passion the present their repertoire - a capella and accompanied by accordion, tin whistle or Bodhran, an Irish drum.