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To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguin’ is done We’ll take our leave and go” You may be aware that this is the chorus of a sea shanty that recently went viral and catapulted Nathan Evans a former postman to the No. 1 spot in the UK charts. What you may not realise is that this 19th-century whaling song from New Zealand has its roots in Amersham! The Wellerman of the song was a supply ship belonging to the firm of Weller & Co founded in Australia in the 19th-century. The money to establish the business came from the Weller Brewery in Amersham. Weller & Co, which was founded by Joseph Weller and his sons, Joseph, George, and Edward. ....
United Way of Washtenaw County’s annual Power of the Purse benefit goes virtual Tickets now available Published: Tags: A woman holds a designer purse. (Pixabay) ANN ARBOR – United Way of Washtenaw County’s Power of the Purse benefit will be moving online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Tickets are now available for the March 10 event that will honor UWWC’s 2021 Woman of the Year, Food Gatherers’ CEO and President, Eileen Spring. Each year at the event, an honoree selected by UWWC’s Women United group is recognized and designer purses are donated to raise funds for programs that promote women’s self-sufficiency and success. ....
Nathan Evans, a 26-year-old postman and aspiring musician from outside Glasgow, is credited with having started the “ShantyTok” trend with his rousing rendition of Wellerman, posted in late December. In the US and UK, Wellerman’s surprise popularity is being held up as evidence of the mental toll of months-long lockdown – but the shanty itself originates from the Antipodes, and tells of a pivotal point in Australia and New Zealand’s history. A “Wellerman” was an employee of the Sydney-based Weller Brothers’ shipping company, which from 1833 was the major supplier of provisions – such as the “sugar and tea and rum” of the shanty’s refrain – to whaling stations on New Zealand shores. ....
Rediscovered song, which has a ‘cheerful energy’, was likely written by a teenage sailor or shore whaler in New Zealand in the 1830s Sea shanty TikTok has gone viral because young people in Covid lockdown are in a similar situation to 19th century whalers, says John Archer Photograph: Bildagentur-online/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Elle Hunt Fri 15 Jan 2021 06.29 GMT Even from “the back of nowhere, far from any city” – not to mention the sea – John Archer caught wind of the sea shanty revival before anyone else. From his home in landlocked Ōhakune, Archer had noticed a sharp uptick in visitors to the New Zealand Folk Song website he set up in 1998. One 19th-century seafaring epic was of particular interest: Soon May The Wellerman Come. ....