About The Eddies
 
 

Coming Up:

St. Paul Farmers' Market
Saturday, July 17 9:00- 12:00

Minnesota Irish Fair - August 13, 14, 15
Sea Shanty Workshops:
Friday at 5:00 and Saturday at 12:30.
Saturday: Gateway Stage - 2:30
Sunday: Pub Stage at 4:30

The Irish Fair does not charge admission!

Hat Trick Lounge
Saturday, August 21 8:00 - 11:00

St. Paul Bike Classic
Sunday, Septemeber 12 - Top of Ramsey Hill

The audience with The Pope has been canceled.

The Eddies' latest (and first) CD is now available!
"Hold Fast" - Songs of Work, Love, & Death: Volume 1.
Check out the Online Liner Notes and How To Purchase.

See The Eddies Recorded Live and In Person on Digital Tape Now.


Eddies are whirlpools or currents that run contrary to the mainstream ... that's us!

Quotable Quotes Department

"...I soon got used to this singing, for the sailors never touched a rope without it. Sometimes, when no one happened to strike up, and the pulling, whatever it might be, did not seem to be getting forward very well, the mate would always say, 'Come men, can't any of you sing? Sing now and raise the dead.' And then some one of them would begin, and if every man's arms were as much relieved as mine by the song, and he could pull as much better as I did, with such a cheering accompaniment, I am sure the song was well worth the breath expended on it. It is a great thing in a sailor to know how to sing well, for he gets a great name by it from the officers, and a good deal of popularity among his shipmates. Some sea captains, before shipping a man, always ask him whether he can sing out at a rope."

-Herman Melville, Redburn, chapter 9 (1849)


 


Where We've Been

What We Sing

How to Book Us

First Monday Shanty Sings
at The Dubliner
in St. Paul

Bob Walser's Latest CD:
The Eddies sing on some
of these fine numbers.




CD Now Available!


The Eddies' CD has been featured on the
Maritime Heritage Network.


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This is the official web site of
The Eddies on the River:
the Book Club that became a singing group
on the Mighty Mississippi.

Updated July 28, 2010