We’re the Lytham St Annes Shanty Crew!
For more than a decade, the Lytham St Annes Shanty Crew have been performing a mix of traditional shanties, modern folk songs of the sea, and their own tunes – all while raising money for the RNLI.
You’ll hear the songs you know: Drunken Sailor, Wellerman, South Australia, Spanish Ladies and loads more. And you’ll hear songs you might not know (yet) but we think you’ll be singing or clapping along to them soon enough.
Raising Vital Funds for the RNLI.
You know the RNLI gets not a penny of public funding? Nothing. Not a bean.
That’s why, since we started out, we’ve been raising money for the RNLI. It costs about £200,000 a year to run the Lytham St Annes lifeboat stations, so every penny counts. And we’re beyond chuffed to be able to say that, thanks to your donations, we’ve raised almost £30,000 since we started shantying.
We’re also extremely grateful to have such close ties with our local lifeboat stations, and to have had a near permanent RNLI presence within the crew. Today, that’s down to Tony Cox, mechanic and coxswain of the Lytham St Annes Shannon-class lifeboat, ‘Barbara Anne’.
Lytham St Annes Shanty Crew are…
