The Navy Band Sea Chanters, the United States Navy’s official chorus, will be in concert at the East Ridge Middle School on Thursday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m., co-sponsored by CHIRP and the American Legion.
Free tickets are available at various locations in town, including town hall, Parks and Recreation, Founders Hall, Ridgefield Music, Fairfield, Webster and People’s banks in Ridgefield, Dimitri’s, The Early Bird, Limestone Service Station and Steve’s Bagels.
The ensemble performs a variety of music ranging from traditional choral music, including sea chanteys and patriotic fare, to opera, Broadway, and contemporary music.
The Sea Chanters perform throughout the United States. At home in Washington, they perform for the president, vice president and congressional, military and foreign dignitaries.
In 1956, Lt. Harold Fultz, then the band’s assistant leader, organized a group from the Navy School of Music to sing chanteys and patriotic songs for the State of the Nation dinner. An immediate success, Adm. Arleigh Burke, then chief of naval operations, transferred them to the Navy Band, named them the Sea Chanters and tasked the all-male chorus with perpetuating the songs of the sea. In 1980, the group added women to their ranks and expanded their repertoire to include everything from Brahms to Broadway.
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