From Salt & Static: The Ferryman’s Hour

Signal Fires in the Harbour — S2

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

We’re sharing an episode of Salt & Static, which hunts for the unlikely places a working shanty turns up once it drifts away from the docks. Host Marisol Devane asks what it is about these tunes that keeps handing them a second life in rooms that never smelled of brine. You’ll hear a call-and-response hauling song rebuilt inside a night-shift bakery, quoted almost verbatim by a mayor in a budget hearing, and sung over a picket line that shut a container port for eleven days. In this preview, Marisol meets four teenagers with an unusually direct claim on the form: deckhands’ kids who found a way to say the unsayable through verses older than the harbour itself.