The die was cast, and in the most outrageous act of piracy committed since Blackbeard at the height of his notoriety, the group embarked on collecting a repertoire of nauticalia (now numbering nearly two hundred songs), and began to perform them locally and at charity events around the county. Popularity grew, as did the crowds, who began to gathering increasing numbers for their performances on Friday evenings down by Port Isaac harbour throughout the 1990s and onward.
At the inaugural Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival back in 2004, unexpectedly the group gathered an massive and hugely appreciative audience on Custom Quay.Their dear friend the late Trevor Grills, the sweetest-ever tenor on the Cornish side of the Tamar, was heard to modestly remark‘Here, we might just be better than we think we are.’
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Oh, and the name? Well, it’s got nothing to do with the sweets, delicious though they are. At that first meet-up in that Port Isaac sitting room back late in 1990, the old mates sat around on sofas and yearned about what they wanted to sing and how they wanted to do it; there were four fishermen and an ex-fisherman, various life boat men and coast guards, and a marine engineer for good measure; fishermen and their friends上海419论坛. It was there that The Fisherman’s Friends were born.爱上海龙凤419
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