NORDET
Mon 27 May
|Main-Sail Stage, Gloucester Docks
True sailors, Nordet have sailed from Lorient, their home port in France, to stages all over the world. And now to Gloucester. Their brand of traditional shanty is replete with accordion, the bouzouki, guitar, banjo and violin, and their energy will sweep you away.


When & Where
27 May 2024, 12:15
Main-Sail Stage, Gloucester Docks, The Docks, Gloucester GL1, UK
About the event
Joining Tall Ships for the first time, For this occasion, the accordion will accompany the bouzouki, the guitar, the banjo and the violin. Nordet will be made up of four crew members: Philippe Falquerho, Francis Arzul, Pierre Guillemot and Didier Allain, all of them used to finding their sea-legs on big stages as well as at parties and cabarets.
For 34 years Nordet have been performing traditional sea shanties and its own creations. The crew know how to make people dance or sing in a festive spirit or be moved by a lament. Nordet's energy, voices and instruments will sweep you away in a gale. These four sailors, exuberant and joyful, will embark and allow the public on board, from dead calm seas to storms, from the middle of oceans to the docks, and from Breton taverns to Gloucestershire pubs. Nordet is a warm north wind, a friendliness and an…