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A maiden voyage like no other
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MORNING STAR readers may know The Silver Darlings for their contribution to the GFTU charity CD Working River, a song about the last working Thames barge under sail, The Last Barge.
They describe themselves as the only female “shanty crew” in Southend but they have been making waves further afield including returning again to this year’s international shanty festival in Harwich.
Like many shanty outfits, they do more than perform familiar maritime call and response work tunes and they have collected a wide repertoire of songs of the sea.
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