About Robert Palomo

Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Robert Palomo is an American musician and resident of the historic port city of Saint Petersburg, Russia for the last quarter century. In recent years he has performed his "new old sea songs" at the Harwich International Sea Shanty and Maritime Festival (UK), the Baltic Shanty Festival (Åland Islands, Finland), and the Teign Shanty and Maritime Festival (UK).


Although many of his original maritime songs may sound traditional at first, listening closer reveals bits and pieces that are strictly 21st century. For example, his capstan shanty Noah Could Not Navigate fires a couple of shots across the bow of creationism and climate change denial. His poignant Widows on the Shore imagines a shanty that women in seafaring towns during the age of sail might have sung.

 

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 Robert at the Harwich Shanty Festival

 

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