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Volume 18, Number 1 • January-February 2000


		To Hear a Menhaden Chantey
		Click on play (►) to listen a sample of menhaden chantey song, "Sweet Rosianna" by the Northern Neck Chantey Singers, who allowed us to record a song during a practice session (about 7:33 minutes). Watch a chantey singers performance on YouTube, http://youtu.be/aYG0qlP3-e4 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.rfmuseum.org/, or e-mail, bunker@crosslink.net.

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To Hear a Menhaden Chantey