Folk singers have always been the guarantors of maritime music being passed on to future generations and always being heard.
The folk singer Gunnar Wiegand also stands in this tradition with his Maritime Folk.
Songs from the maritime world – shanties, work songs, forebitters, sea songs, songs about living and working at, with and on the water.
Stories behind the songs, strange, funny, surprising – new and old shanties and seasongs of the English and American tradition as well as songs from Germany. Traditional, old, new.
A capella, with guitar, Thüringer F orestzither and more – and of course full vocal engagement.
Current he is also member of the Hannover maritime Folk & Shanty Group “What Shall We Do”.
Album: CD “Mahlsand” (2023)
Performances:
Mevagissey Shanty Festival 2025 & 2024, Harwich Shanty Festival 2025, Bie Daip Shanty- & Folkfestival Appingedam 2025 & 2024, Liereliet Shanty & Seasong Festival Workum 2024, Kieler Woche 2023, Festival Maritim Bremen 2025 & 2023, Tanz- und Folkfest Rudolstadt 2022, Folk im Park in Bremen 2025 & 2022 and many more
Contact: Gunnar Wiegand guwi@gunnar-wiegand.de