What we’re about
If you're curious, you can watch a video on YouTube of clips of us performing on the Golden Hinde in August 2025. There's a link to it below. We perform there once a month on the second Wednesday of the month. from 7.30 pm to 10 pm.
We also perform at the William Morris Pub in Merton Abbey Mills once a month from 7pm,usually on the first Wednesday of the month.Entry is fee and house drinks are half price from 6pm to 8pm
We hand out chorus sheets to all guests, and nearly all the audience join in singing the choruses.
Please email me or phone me on 020 8542 1490 if you are looking for a Shanty Singing group to perform in a private party, pub or restaurant
George Tudor-Hart
Upcoming events
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Shanty Singing upstairs room at the William Morris Pub
The William Morris Pub, 20 Watermill Way, London, GBBelow is a video of us on YouTube, singing in the upstairs room in the William Morris pub, with a good participating audience.
https://youtu.be/8eL3hJG2sN4This event will consist of three lively forty minute sets, mainly of well known Shanty Songs, with typed chorus sheets handed out to all guests. There is an exit door from this room which leads to a large first floor veranda, overlooking the River Wandle, where guests may sit to cool off and listen to the river, with the shanty singing in the background
In this upstairs room only Shanty fans will be invited, so there will be no annoyingly loud conversations from those who see live singing as background music to their shouted conversations
Happy Hour, when house drinks are half price, is from 6pm to 7pm
It's an Edwardian bar in picturesque Merton Abbey Mills, which is ten minutes walk from Colliers Wood tube station.
Or you can catch a 57, 131 or 219 bus from Wimbledon station or Tooting Broadway station to Merton Abbey Mills bus stop, and these buses run every two or three minutes.
We get a lively crowd, nearly all of whom join in singing the choruses.
Good quality hot food is available which is cooked on the premises.
Towards the end of the evening we take a few requests from audience members, who are invited on stage to sing the song with us, but only if they want to.
We usually here on the first Thursday of the month, and have been singing here for two and a half years, and it don't seem a day too long
Newcomers and experienced shanty singers are equally welcome. It's easy to join in singing the choruses, especially after we've lent you a chorus song book and you've had a few drinks.
George1 attendee
Shanty Singing on the Golden Hinde ship- London Bridge
The Golden Hinde, 1 & 2 Pickfords Wharf, Clink Street, London SE1 9DG, London, GBThe Golden Hinde ship is a full scale working replica of the first English Ship to sail around the world, captained by Sir Francs Drake in the Elizabethan era, with original cannon, capstans, marlinspikes, etc. Besides hearing us, and joining in singing the choruses, you can also explore the ship. And for your further convenience, there is an on board bar with wine and beer at pub prices, and a flushing WC or two. We have been performing here about every other month since February 2025. All our events here sold out weeks before we performed. We had top class guests who were lively, and all joined in singing the choruses,
Tickets are £10 plus booking fee, and the link is below. And there is also a link to a couple of videos on YouTube of us singing in this the ship, if you want to take a look and have a listen. The ship is currently in dry dock undergoing hull maintenance, and you can reach it by going to London Bridge Underground station, and from there it's five minute walk walk through Borough Market.
And, by the way, when it was first built, this ship sailed from Devon to San Francisco, and from there onto Japan, where is starred in the original film production of Shogunhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grEsDWy2vBg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i3rAvEt5nY
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and the ticket link on Eventbrite for Wednesday 12th November £10 plus 10% booking fee
12th Novemberhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shanty-singers-of-colliers-wood-on-the-golden-hinde-tickets-1372515022379
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Shanty Singing at the Tea House Theatre in Vauxhall
Tea House Theatre Tea House Theatre 139 Vauxhall Walk Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens Vauxhall SE11 5HL, London (map), Tea House Theatre Tea House Theatre 139 Vauxhall Walk Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens Vauxhall SE11 5HL, London (map), Vauxhall, London, GBThis night is the relaunch of the Shanty Nights at the Tea House. There will be a new menu, and a special deal for previous shanty guests (this deal hasn't quite been worked out yet, but will be soon)
The Tea House Theatre is an eccentric Victorian pub in Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, and is five minutes walk from Vauxhall tube and railway station. There's tables, chairs and quality food for about fifty guests. There's always a lively crowd who join in singing in the choruses, or thumping on the tables- and we solicit this by handing out chorus song sheets to all guests.
Here is a link to a video on YouTube of us singing at the Tea House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4cjSQm-JRMYou can reserve a table for two, four, sic or eight Below is the link for the Tae House website
https://www.teahousetheatre.co.uk/shanty-singers
We take requests from our list of eighty songs (and all guests are lent a book with a list and the choruses of all these songs) and we often invite one or two guests o to join us singing on the stage1 attendeeShanty Singing upstairs room at the William Morris Pub
The William Morris Pub, 20 Watermill Way, London, GBBelow is a video of us on YouTube, singing in the upstairs room in the William Morris pub, with a good participating audience.
https://youtu.be/8eL3hJG2sN4This event will consist of three lively forty minute sets, mainly of well known Shanty Songs, with typed chorus sheets handed out to all guests. There is an exit door from this room which leads to a large first floor veranda, overlooking the River Wandle, where guests may sit to cool off and listen to the river, with the shanty singing in the background
In this upstairs room only Shanty fans will be invited, so there will be no annoyingly loud conversations from those who see live singing as background music to their shouted conversations
Happy Hour, when house drinks are half price, is from 6pm to 7pm
It's an Edwardian bar in picturesque Merton Abbey Mills, which is ten minutes walk from Colliers Wood tube station.
Or you can catch a 57, 131 or 219 bus from Wimbledon station or Tooting Broadway station to Merton Abbey Mills bus stop, and these buses run every two or three minutes.
We get a lively crowd, nearly all of whom join in singing the choruses.
Good quality hot food is available which is cooked on the premises.
Towards the end of the evening we take a few requests from audience members, who are invited on stage to sing the song with us, but only if they want to.
We usually here on the first Thursday of the month, and have been singing here for two and a half years, and it don't seem a day too long
Newcomers and experienced shanty singers are equally welcome. It's easy to join in singing the choruses, especially after we've lent you a chorus song book and you've had a few drinks.
George1 attendee
Past events
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