About this minute

Title
Santianna
Creator
Traditional
Performer
Children from Primrose Hill Primary School in London
Performer
Kathryn Teage
Arranged by
Kathryn Teage
Contributor
English Folk Dance and Song Society
Location
Mexico
Collections
Collection 3 , IWD 2020

Collection 3 #25

That was a song called ‘Santianna’, which used by to be sung by sailors working on ships more than 150 years ago. The lively ‘rhythms’ in this song would have helped the sailors to get their work done more quickly. The performance that you heard wasn’t sung by sailors at all – a choir of...
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