To Hear a Menhaden Chantey

Click here for a streaming audio sample of menhaden chantey singing by the Northern Neck Chantey Singers, who allowed us to record two songs during a practice session (about 3:48 minutes, 558K).

To hear the chanteys, you must have the free RealPlayer plug-in.

Photograph courtesy of the Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Va

"See You When the Sun Goes Down," a commercial audiotape by the Northern Neck Chantey Singers with songs and interviews of the men talking about how the chanteys worked is available from the Reedville Fishermen's Museum. The recording was produced by the Virginia Folklife Program for the Reedville Fishermen's Museum and made possible by a grant from the Folk Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support provided by the Greater Reedville Association and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. To order a copy of the tape, which sells for $12.00, contact the Reedville Fishermen's Museum, 504 Main Street, Reedville, Virginia 22539, telephone: (804) 453-6529, http://www.northernneck.com/museum/, or e-mail, bunker@crosslink.net.

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