A Life In Song: 4 Decades of Original Music
296 The Silkie (BU CD) by Mark Shepard About This Song: (lyrics below) This song is part of my CD, "Breathing Underwater: Drums, Songs & Stories About The Sea". Traditional Irish stories abound of the magical seals that come to shore, and take off their seal skins to become human. If a …
Part of the Breathing Underwater CD, This song is about Nathaniel Bowditch, the Father of Modern Navigation. Growing up, I loved a book my Aunt Bessie gave me called, "Carry On Mr. Bowditch" which was a fascinating account of this amazing self taught scholar and math genius who eventually became a …
In the late 1990's I was making my living primarily as a storyteller traveling around New England to elementary and middle schools. A PTA person from Rhode Island (The Ocean State) asked me if I had a program about the Sea. I knew she wanted some "sea shanty" crap that only "old fart folk …
