Rambling Sailors

Genre: Folk
Secondary Genre: Celtic Pensacola, Florida USA Contact

Rambling Sailors is a duo act dedicated to performing traditional and modern sea shanties and ballads of the sea, delivered with their original passion, and better instruments. Their music is characterized by powerful vocals, strong harmonies, and a mood range from the sweet to the epic.

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Biography

Rambling Sailors is a new effort by performers Gregg and Susan Csikos. Gregg and Susan performed for over a decade individually. Now with a combined experience of 23 years on the circuit, a repertoire of hundreds of songs, and harmonies that please the ear and lift the spirit, Rambling Sailors is a combination that would grace any Renaissance Festival.

Gregg Csikos has over a decade of performing experience behind him and a lifelong love affair with maritime music. Gregg started Ren Faire life by forming the piratical a capella sextet The Corsairs, singing lead for eight years and recording six albums before launching a solo career. His commanding vocals and driving rhythms gained him a loyal following, and four years and two more albums later he has quickly become a popular figure on the Faire stage with audiences and performers alike. Also a juggler and trained dancer, Gregg has performed at more than twenty Ren Faires from New York to Arizona, and carries a great potential draw as a permanent performer.

Susan Csikos wet her feet in Celtic music performance 15 years ago. She has entertained audiences up and down the East Coast at Renaissance fairs and festivals for over ten years, entertaining at the Fox theatre, the 1996 Olympics and playing with the Chieftains. Susan spent five years sailing wooden schooners in Maine, entertaining on deck at night, and won the Camden Schooner Days annual performance contest four times. Her performances are marked by a wide vocal and emotional range that can credibly deliver anything from powerful ballads to tender love songs, with a whimsical side that delights in the Celtic love of alliteration and obfuscation.

Instrumentation

Gregg Csikos - Guitar, Lead Vocal, English Concertina
Susan Csikos - Vocals, Guitar / Mandolin, Bodhran Drum

Discography

Rambling Sailors - Bight Shining Clear
Rambling Sailors - Wanderlust
Gregg Csikos - Rambling Sailor
Gregg Csikos - Pirate's Life
Susan Hickey - Water Meets Sand

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  • Outstanding!! [+ Show ]

    Outstanding!!! author: Jonathan Wiedyk This is one of the best cds I have ever heard! Both Greg...

  • Wonderful & Welcome [+ Show ]

    This CD is a wonderful and welcome addition to anyone who loves the genre. Susan and Gregg's voices...

Setlist

Leave Her Johnny
Mingulay Boat Song
One More Day
Rambles of Spring
Whaur Will We Gang
Away Rio
Carlingford
Jolly Roving Tar
Marching Inland
Morning Glory
Recall
All For Me Grog
Bottle of the Best
Humors of Whiskey
The Night Pat Murphy Died
Whiskey You're the Divil
Angus's Kilt
Danny Boy
Davy Jones
Drunken Sailor
Irish Rover
Scotsman's Kilt
The Derelict
The Mermaid
Merry May Folk
Bulley in the Alley
Dead Horse Shanty
Ebeneezer
Fiddler's Green
Hello Somebody
Old Maui
Rambling Sailor
Reuben Ranzo
Roll the Old Chariot
Royal Oak
Shallow Brown
Spanish Talcahuano Lady Girls
Bessie Quinn
Death of Young Andrew
Minstrel Boyz
Pirate's Life
The Pict Song
Wreckers
Beggars to God
Gypsy Rover
Holy Ground
If I Was a Blackbird
Pirate Song
Raglan Road
Red is the Rose
World's Wedding
Dark Lady
Harbo & Samuelson
J & E Riggin
Leaving of Liverpool
Light Dragoon
Marching Inland
Mary Ellen Carter
Ned's Shanty
Pay Me My Money Down
Saucy Sailor
Stockholm Tar
Strike the Bell
The Dreadnought
The Sea
The Topman & the Afterguard
This Dreadful Life
When I was a Fair Maid
Away
Blowed and Torn
Sailor's Prayer
Bugger Off

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