194 Haakon Vatle of Storm Weather Shanty Choir

Under the Crossbones The Pirate Podcast

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Haakon Vatle leads Norway's Storm Weather Shanty Choir. He's got some great tour stories and actually uses sea shanties on a ship he's the general manager for.

In this episode:

• How his time on a Norwegian tall ship taught him about the real life usefulness of sea shanties
• How a couple super hardcore fans made their first Japanese tour happen
• How accepting a gig as a wedding band turned into a unique first tour of the US.
• How he bent the rules in university to study the music he loves.

Under The Crossbones is a podcast all about pirate culture. Your host Phil Johnson (comedian, musician, and pirate geek) interviews the most interesting people in the pirate subculture: Actors, Authors, Historians, Musicians, Artists, Festival Founders, Clothing and Prop Designers, Treasure Hunters, Archaeologists, and more.

Today's show is sponsored by:

Scuba Wize Sunken Treasure Workshop - Go diving on a real sunken Spanish galleon with Carl "Fizz" Fismer, Bradley Williamson, and Marc Littleton in the Florida Keys! http://www.underthecrossbones.com/scuba

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Listen to "A Drop of Nelson's Blood" by Storm Weather Shanty Choir at https://youtu.be/YjglpHClNMU

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Storm Weather Shanty Choir - https://www.facebook.com/shantychoir

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