Shanty Jack
The Dan Thomas Maritime & Traditional Stage, Saturday, 14.15 – 14.45
For the past three decades, no maritime or shanty festival in the UK or Europe has been complete without the appearance of Pete ‘Shanty Jack’ Hayselden.
A Yorkshireman by birth, he worked for nearly 30 years in tugs on the Humber. He used to be a keen yachtsman, but nowadays he has no time for that as music has taken over.
Nevertheless, it is his intention to get his own boat finished so that he can spend retirement sailing from festival to festival to visit all the multitude of friends on the ‘shanty scene’… Well, he can dream!
As well as appearing at various festivals throughout the UK and Europe, Jack was responsible for establishing the Hull Sea Fever Festival, which was regarded by many as the premier UK shanty festival, and the precursor to the current Hull Folk and Maritime Festival.