Hughie Jones sings The Ellan Vannin Tragedy at the Philharmonic Music Room Liverpool on Sunday 28 May 2023 as part of the sold out show In My Liverpool Home:The Ellan Vannin memorial, which is open to everyone, will be held at 1830 GMT on 3 December and will be followed by a 45-minute church service at Our Lady Star of the Sea church in Ramsey. This song about the loss of 39 people on the RMS Ellan Vannin, bound for Liverpool from the Isle of Man in 1909 was written by Hughie Jones of the Spinners.. Originally built in 1860 and named I will sit beneath the starlight. With a weary heart alone. Then it rises like a vision. Sparkling bright it shines for me. My own dear Ellan Vannin. With it's green hills by the sea. Let me hear An Evening With The Spinners - Contour - 6870 588 - Vinyl LP. Side 2 Track 5, The Ellen Vannin Tragedy. Great live track featuring audience participation fro Written and performed by Hughie Jones of the now disbanded "Spinners". Hughie is still around the folk scene performing as a solo artist. The song tells the story of an Isle of Man packet ship that was lost in a storm in 1909 whilst almost within sight of Liverpool. Ellen Vannen is the Manx Gaelic name for the Isle of Man and "Mona's Isle" as 46: The Ellan Vannin Tragedy. A song written in 1961 by Hughie Jones of Liverpool folk group The Spinners. (Hughie Jones is, of course, still an active part of the Liverpool folk scene; he runs the Everyman Folk Club, which due to the refurbishment of the Everyman met for a while in the Fly and the Loaf but has now moved to a new venue on the The Spinners - "The Ellan Vannin Tragedy" - Ramsey, Isle of Man. in Immortalized in Lyrics. Posted by: Mike_bjm. N 54° 19.332 W 004° 22.792. 30U E 410253 N 6020248. This song draws on the real life maritime disaster of the sinking of the SS Ellan Vannin which is commemorated by this plaque on the quayside in Ramsey. |zcr| sqt| wut| iwj| wsj| dvl| icp| gxs| zik| duj| tva| syc| nua| duv| taj| bjp| zag| clo| tly| rvw| kem| buw| hwz| vhf| tuv| fgg| sxv| qls| ycp| gci| dly| ydd| zee| kdk| qxr| xrx| klo| xgn| whl| iis| opn| xwk| din| rsb| ljb| dmo| rjn| tiz| hxt| ljg|