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It was a hot July night in Halifax, Nova Scotia which is not common. The Yarmouth Shantymen were singing a gig at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in the dockside court, not common. Pressgang Mutiny, who are jazz players were in town for the Halifax Jazz Festival, not common. They chanced on the older group of East Coast men and when the Yarmouth guys found out they sang sea shantys too, well, it turned into one crazy-good folk-singing moment. With apologies to Stan Rogers' Barrett's Privateers, " We were singing men on a Halifax pier, shantymen, all, of great good cheer." The song, the singers and the audience........Here's the bootleg evidence. Play it loudly.