Friday Night Concert

Free Patriotic Concert presented by Plymouth Industrial Development Corporation

Featuring the Navy Band Sea Chanters The Navy Band Sea Chanters is the United States Navy’s official chorus.

Friday November 18th 2011
7pm-10pm (doors open at 6pm for general seating)
Memorial Hall Plymouth MA

Hosted by the WCVB Ch. 5 news team

The ensemble performs a variety of music ranging from traditional choral music, including sea chanteys and patriotic fare, to opera, Broadway, and contemporary music. Under the leadership of Senior Chief Musician Georgina L. Todd, the Sea Chanters perform for the public throughout the United States. At home in Washington, D.C., they perform for the President, Vice President and numerous congressional, military and foreign dignitaries. In 1956, Lt. Harold Fultz, then the band's assistant leader, organized a group from the Navy School of Music to sing chanteys and patriotic songs for the State of the Nation dinner. An immediate success, Admiral Arleigh Burke, then Chief of Naval Operations, transferred them to the Navy Band, named them the Sea Chanters and tasked this all-male chorus with perpetuating the songs of the sea. In 1980, the group added women to their ranks and expanded their repertoire to include everything from Brahms to Broadway.