Musical

In 1875 18 year old Frank Bullen signed up on an American whaler. From New Bedford, Massachusetts, he rounded the globe: via Cape of Good Hope they sailed to the Sea of Ochotsk ( North of Japan) and via the Hawaii-islands, New-Zealand and Cape Horn back home. The trip took almost 3 years. In 1897 his book ‘The Cruise of the Cachalot’, was published.

Jan Smeets has taken this trip report as a lead for writing ‘Jonas’, a musical about the traditional sailing and whaling. It includes a number of, mostly original, shanties – work songs on square-rigged ships - which will be sung by the "Zingerij Dwarsgetuigd". The show was performed a number of times in 2007. See the below some impressions.

Pictures from "Jonas"