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Historical Society Presentation featuring The Yarmouth Shantymen

Fri, Mar 01

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Yarmouth

In celebration of their 40th anniversary! Come enjoy this throw-back to that original program of March 1984 and hear some of the additional songs that have been added to the repertoire Free event!

Historical Society Presentation featuring The Yarmouth Shantymen
Historical Society Presentation featuring The Yarmouth Shantymen

Time & Location

Mar 01, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Yarmouth, 22 Collins St, Yarmouth, NS B5A 3C8, Canada

About the Event

Join the Yarmouth County Historical Society for a musical celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Yarmouth Shantymen. Forty years ago, Eric Ruff was the Curator at the Yarmouth County Museum. He had promised the society that he would do a program on Sea Shanties - the work songs of sailors on sailing ships. He talked a group of his friends into helping him with the program and the Yarmouth Shantymen were born. Forty years (and four CDs) later, they are still sharing songs of the sea, and it all started at the Yarmouth County Museum. Come enjoy this throw-back to that original program of March 1984 and hear some of the additional songs that have been added to the repertoire. The program will be in-person only at the Museum.

Free event! 

*Photo is from the original 1984 program 

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22 Collins Street

Yarmouth, NS

B5A 3C8

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The Yarmouth County Museum and Archives, owned by the Yarmouth County Historical Society stands on Mi’kma’ki (Mi’kmaq Territory) and supports culture, education, and arts on this land. We strive for meaningful partnerships with all the peoples of this province as we continue to live and work here. Through the Peace and Friendship Treaties, which the Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet), and Passamaquoddy Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725-1726, there was no surrender of lands nor resources. Agreements within these Treaties outline a path for the ongoing relationship between Nations in mutual respect.

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