Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea shanties, particularly "The Wellerman," are going viral on TikTok.@nathanevanss/@strong ...

Bennett Konesni sings a sea shanty while raising a sail on his ketch, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Belfast, Maine. Konesni started singing sea shanties aboard a schooner in Penobscot Bay and has since ...

Nathan Evans, the TikTok star who launched "The Wellerman" phenomenon, talks about his surprise success on "Good Morning America." It's folly to examine why some things go viral on the internet, and ...

More than ten months stuck at home is enough to give anyone wanderlust. On TikTok, the urge to be out in the wilds is manifesting in an unexpected way: a viral obsession with sea shanties. Written to ...

When I woke up last Friday morning, I realized I had several messages. All of them were links to a TikTok video of several guys singing a song, a sea shanty from the 19th century called “Wellerman,” ...

Sea shanties fueled the spirits of sailors and boat workers for hundreds of years. Now, they're a social media sensation. The songs were work-oriented, helping sailors coordinate tasks that required ...

"Sea shanty Tok" is the latest internet sensation, with large groups of TikTokers joining in to sing seafaring songs together online. It's captured the imagination of the internet and proved that once ...