About this minute
- Title
- Santianna
- Creator
- Traditional
- 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…
