William Pint & Felicia Dale
Celebrating the ocean in song
Prepare for an intoxicating blend of traditional and modern music reflecting the immense vitality of those who live and work on the sea. Pint and Dale’s music fits into the world of modern folk, rock and popular song, but it’s rich with the myth, narrative, rhythm, rhyme and lyric associated with the days of the tall ships.
With extraordinary vocals and guitar, octave mandolin, Irish pennywhistles, cittern, fiddles, ukulele percussion and the exotic sounds of the vielle-à-roue or hurdy gurdy, William Pint & Felicia Dale bring an energetic and contemporary spirit to their material.
The music of the sea -- maritime music, nautical music. Whether they be contemporary songs with the sea as a theme, ancient ballads of fearsome pirates, or shanties, (or ‘chanties’, if you prefer) the traditional work songs sung aboard the tall ships to organize the labor of the crew enabling small groups of men to accomplish tremendous feats of strength.
Those crews were English, Irish, Welsh, German, French, from the West Indies, The United States and other sea going nations, but the music itself was inspired by the oceans that link all these places together and cover two thirds of our precious planet. We take all of this as a source of inspiration for our music - giving it our own spin with guitar, hurdy-gurdy, octave mandolin and other exotic sounds. The result is an unusually energetic and exciting approach to folk music.
We have a tremendously good time playing this music and hope that you will enjoy listening and participating in it either at a live performance or through our recordings.
Because of the Coronavirus situation, our upcoming performances are few and far between.
Seeing that folk musicians are usually the living embodiment of “hand-to-mouth” living, we’re putting out a PayPal ‘tip jar’ for any folks who might like to make contributions to support our music.
Just click on the jar!
We also now have a link for Ko-Fi.com
in case you’d like to ‘buy us a cup of coffee!.
https://ko-fi.com/williampintandfeliciadale
Square also has a way to contribute to our live stream events (or just to contribute) for folks who don’t use PayPal:
Thanks so much for all the support (financial or otherwise ) that our listeners have provided to us in the past. Please be careful, stay healthy and we hope to see each and every one of you again once this crisis is behind us.
