Johnny Collins & Graeme Knights (United Kingdom)
Johnny Collins, a native of the county of Norfolk but now based in London, England, is a well-traveled performer specializing in the singing of shanties, sea songs and maritime ballads. An internationally acclaimed performer and recording artist, Johnny has organized Folk clubs and topped the bill in concerts around the world since the mid-fifties: His vigorous style and his supreme ability to persuade audiences to join in choruses is unrivalled. Johnny is a familiar and welcome figure at many of the world's foremost maritime venues and festivals, and has guested in the U.S.A. at Maine Maritime Museum, Kendall Whaling Museum and Newport News Maritime Museum. He has also delighted audiences with several concert appearances at Mystic Seaport (U.S.A.) and was resident shantyman at Expo '88 in Brisbane, Australia. Nearer home, he has been acclaimed as a shanty supremo at many of the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race venues, including Southampton, Liverpool and Newcastle upon Tyne, and other U.K. maritime festivals at Hull, Lancaster, Bristol, Dundee, Maldon, Portsmouth, Gosport, Greenwich and Chatham.
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