19
Jan
After All is Said and Done
2 min read
Latest
23
Mar
Amendment 1
Amendment 10:00/01×
By Bennett Konesni
February 2026
Oh the fun
Oh the fun, Oh the fun
Has just
1 min read
29
Jan
AP News: Sea Shanties Are Having a Moment Amid Isolation of Pandemic
"If we can sing, it'll help us get through it, just like sailors did on the tall
1 min read
18
Mar
As Above and So Below
1 min read
10
Apr
Astroturf Paradise
1 min read
04
Mar
Bare Bones of Winter
1 min read
04
Mar
Barnyard Polska
By Bennett Konesni
2009
Barnyard Polska0:00/01×
Mia Friedman, Fiddle
Jeff Lewis, Mandolin
Bennett Konesni, Tenor Guitar
Recorded by
1 min read
21
Mar
Beanhole Beans
1 min read
19
Jan
Boston Harbor
The Song
This is a classic sea shanty that taps into a universal topic in worksongs - calling out a
3 min read
18
Apr
Both/And
By Bennett Konesni
Song begins at 1:33.
Mia shared this on Daily Antidote of Song! starting at 7:14.
2 min read
19
Mar
Cambric Shirt
2 min read
05
Mar
Cape Cod Girls
1 min read
04
Mar
Chinquapin Hunting
20
Mar
Come Pretty Love
04
Mar
Death of a Dream
1 min read
25
Mar
Dip Pull Swing
1 min read
04
Mar
Embers in the Dark
By Bennett Konesni
February 2023
Embers in the Dark0:00/01×
Key of C
I = C major
IV = F major
1 min read
27
Mar
Essequibo River
3 min read
21
Mar
Farthest Field
Composed by David Dodson, Camden, Maine
Led here by Mia Bertelli at the Winter Northeast Organic Farmer's conference
1 min read
05
Mar
Fisherman
2 min read
12
Apr
Flying Shoes Radio Hour: Participatory Music and Dance Culture in Maine
Here I join host Chrissy Fowler with fiddler Benjamin Foss on the Flying Shoes Radio Hour to talk about participatory
04
Mar
Footprints in the Snow
1 min read
19
Jan
Forbidden Fruit
2 min read
05
Mar
General Taylor (aka Stormy aka Walk Him Along)
DECDF Workshop 20260:00/01×
I sing this slower while rowing than I do in a pub session on account
1 min read
04
Mar
Ghost Thunderbird
2 min read
04
Mar
God Speed the Plough
2 min read
21
Mar
Groundhog
3 min read
21
Mar
Hal an Tow
2 min read
07
Mar
Haul on the Bowline
Haul on the Bowline0:00/01×NASC Workshop - Haul on the Bowline0:00/01×
Lyrics
Haul on the bowline,
2 min read
21
Mar
Hog's Eye Man
1 min read
05
Mar
Holy Order Song
A Shaker hymn from the United Society of Believers. This sacred song was used during worship meetings where believers would
1 min read
04
Mar
Huckleberry Hunting
This is recorded with Edith Gawler, Elsie Gawler, and Ethan Tischler.
February 2022
Huckleberry Hunting0:00/01×
Oh, the boys
1 min read
04
Mar
I Love You Simply
By Bennett Konesni
March 2022
I adapted this from Pablo Neruda's poem "Sonnet XVII."
Key of
1 min read
23
Mar
In Dangerous Times
By Ali Burns, Scotland
Support her work and hear her version here!
In Dangerous Times - All Parts0:00/01×
3 min read
21
Mar
Jordan Road
Dan Emmett (1853), recorded by Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit-Jar Drinkers (1927)
The song was originally written by Dan
2 min read
23
Mar
Lamb and Lion
Lamb and Lion0:00/01×DECDF Workshop 20260:00/01×
When lamb and lion lie down together
Joy and wonders
1 min read
25
Aug
Library of Congress: Homegrown, Work Songs from Maine
In August 2021, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress invited me to put together a Homegrown concert
1 min read
04
Mar
Love Is So Short
2 min read
28
Mar
Make This House a Home
3 min read
08
May
May-o
By Bennett Konesni
May 2024
Mayo - Sung here by the Belfast Bagaduce Community Chorus0:00/01×
Lyrics
May-o, May-o
1 min read
04
Mar
Mountain Mover
By Bennett Konesni
May 2021
On the Schooner J&E Riggin
Penobscot Bay
Mountain Mover0:00/288.173561×
Lyrics
2 min read
21
Mar
My Heart is Ready
1 min read
20
May
NPR / Maine Public: Mainers Are Working To Give Historical Sea Chanties New Life
Ari Snider of Maine Public came out in spring 2019 to talk about sea shanties: where they came from, why
27
May
NYTimes: City Slickers Take to the Crops, With Song
The Times ran this piece in May 2010 about Sylvester Manor, on Shelter Island, and the experiment I was running:
04
Mar
Oak Tree
1 min read
23
Mar
One By One Everyone Comes To Remember
By Michael Stillwater, Inner Harmony Music, BMI
Please check out his site, rich with many more songs and recordings.
One
1 min read
05
Mar
One More Day
Led by Bennett Konesni
Sung by the Gawler Family: Ellen, John, Molly, Edith and Elsie Gawler
One More Day0:00/
3 min read
05
Mar
Reuben Ranzo
3 min read
21
Mar
Roll and Go
2 min read
05
Mar
Roll Boys Roll / Sally Brown
2 min read
20
Apr
Roll the Old Chariot Along
3 min read
05
Mar
Roll The Woodpile Down
1 min read
21
Mar
Rolling Home to Old New England
1 min read
21
Mar
Row On
1 min read
20
Mar
Ruby Sugaroo
Collected all over North America, notably on Cranberry Island off the coast of Maine near Acadia National Park. This song
1 min read
21
Mar
Run Run
DECDF Workshop 20260:00/01×
By Bennett Konesni
An original running song by Bennett Konesni, written originally for 350.org
1 min read
10
May
Sanding the Floor
3 min read
21
Mar
Santyanna
1 min read
05
Mar
Satisfy Yourself
1 min read
21
Mar
Simple Gifts
The beloved Shaker hymn by Elder Joseph Brackett Jr. of Maine, written in 1848.
1 min read
21
Mar
Sing Round
A Maine lumberjack song following timber from forest to mill to payday.
2 min read
21
Mar
Sowing Grain
13
Apr
Spirit of Leadership Podcast: Moving Music, Bringing Joy into Work and Life
In this interview I join Megan Chaskey on her Spirit of Leadership podcast to explore how work songs transform labor
04
Mar
Stormalong And Around We'll Go
1 min read
15
Oct
TEDx: Transforming Work Into Joy
Musicians Bennett Konesni and Edith Gawler want to put the culture back into agriculture and find the joy to make
1 min read
04
Mar
The Lesson
2 min read
04
Mar
The Postcard
1 min read
04
Mar
The Senses
By Bennett Konesni
2009
The Senses0:00/01×
Oh, my little darling, oh, my little darling girl
There's
3 min read
21
Mar
The Wellerman
2 min read
25
Apr
The White Whale
2 min read
17
Jan
Trials, Troubles, Tribulations
Trials, troubles, tribulations
Such as never been before
When the angels pour upon us
Their vows of dread forevermore
When
1 min read
20
Mar
Walk Along Talk Along
A walking song / sea shanty from Carrie Grover, who walked from Halifax to New Brunswick to Maine with her father
1 min read
04
Mar
Waves Upon the Sand
1 min read
05
Mar
Welcome Back
Welcome Back - The Bennett Brothers0:00/173.9232921×
By Bennett Konesni
September 2024
Welcome Back
Welcome Back
Welcome Back
2 min read
04
Mar
Western Wind
1 min read
20
Mar
When Them Taters Are All Dug
A Maine potato harvest ballad collected in Aroostook County from a migrant farm worker who had no money at the
2 min read