Rolling Down To Old Maui - Don Sineti and Sea Music Festival performers/audience

Traditional, penultimate song of the fest at Mystic, featuring chanteyman Don Sineti and "all hands," 13 June 2010.

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Music

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• sea
• song
• forebitter
• old
• maui
• don
• sineti
• mystic
• seaport
• festival

[gascolator]

Chanteymen and women all hands in! 113-part harmony, all spot-on. This is why we do it.

[hultonclint]

@gascolator Right on! More people should see this -- it should be linked on Wikipedia or something :)

[Rubygeode]

Regarding similarities between this recording & the one from the 2004 Chicago Maritime Festival: one of the similarities between this version and the Chicago version is that the same person is leading the song. (And four of the other people on the stage in this recording were also on the stage in Chicago-- the Johnson Girls.)

[hultonclint]

@Rubygeode yes.... :)

Hey, what year do you think the claps came in? hmmm, and where did the *second* set of claps now come from? Monk is on the case.

[Beverlyannie]

My husband & I were in the audience for this performance. We have been fans of the Sea Music Festival since 1989. This is well, kind of a sad tradition to participate in. It's sad because it marks the end of another Sea Music Festival. I think I remember even hearing Stan Hugill sing this song once, at one of our first Sea Music Festivals. Personally, I prefer hearing Don lead this song.

[vanhartk]

Don Sineti is the elected Chantyman of any ship! Had the pleasure of having a 2 hour session of his songs and history of whaling during my Stay at Mystic. I'd implore everyone to check out the museum grounds there, fascinating place.

[reendan2008]

Great video. thanks for posting. I was there for this...great memories!

[oopspaw]

@hultonclint ... i'm sure that's the way it happened .. =) .. yes, i come from the english-speaking part of new brunswick (the south). i believe my great grandmother emigrated with her parents from ireland to rhode island several years before she met my great grandfather (who came from Scotch Settlement, which was a small english-speaking area of quebec) and married him. while R.I. is not Conn., it's not too far away! the world is a small place any way you look at it! .. ;D

[hultonclint]

@oopspaw I think what happened was that Stan HUGILL introduced this version in the 1970s and then Stan ROGERS adopted his version in the late 70s, after which fellow Maritimes singers continued it. Oh, I didn't know you were from NB. I just found out my great grandmother was from there, heh heh.

[oopspaw]

@hultonclint ... ah, very interesting! .. =) .. yes, i do recognise it b/c of stan rogers mostly but also b/c local singers (when growing up in NB) would sing it on the radio, in pubs and at special 'celtic' flavoured events .. =}

[Rubygeode]

@ hultonclint: regarding the claps, good question.  I think the standard "Chicago" way is still just one set of claps. Proof of this is the 2010 CMF vid of the 97th Regimental string band-- if you listen closely you can hear the audience in the background doing just the first clap.