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Codswallop brings folk songs with a strong maritime streak, listening songs, sing-alongs, sensitive ballads and intimate gentle songs, stomping and swaying songs about rough men, beautiful women, waves, the sea, as well as socially engaged folk songs on all kinds of different topics.
The emphasis is on vocals with minimal instrument accompaniment, allowing the lyrics of the songs and stories to demand full attention.
A performance by Codswallop is both a feast of recognition and an introduction to the most beautiful songs, because introducing a new song that is little known or unknown is one of Codswallop's strengths.
You will hear classics like The Final Trawl, Allen Die Willen Naar Island Gaan, Sam Hall, but also lesser-known songs like They Don't Write Them Like That Anymore or The Hard Times of Old England.
Codswallop prefers to perform in an environment where the contact with the audience is direct and intimate, close, as in a living room: familiar, warm, and above all together.
The emphasis is on vocals with minimal instrument accompaniment, allowing the lyrics of the songs and stories to demand full attention.
A performance by Codswallop is both a feast of recognition and an introduction to the most beautiful songs, because introducing a new song that is little known or unknown is one of Codswallop's strengths.
You will hear classics like The Final Trawl, Allen Die Willen Naar Island Gaan, Sam Hall, but also lesser-known songs like They Don't Write Them Like That Anymore or The Hard Times of Old England.
Codswallop prefers to perform in an environment where the contact with the audience is direct and intimate, close, as in a living room: familiar, warm, and above all together.
What is Codswallop?
Codswallop is a duo consisting of Martin and Corine. Although they have both been working separately and together in the folk world for decades and have been a couple for a number of decades, strangely enough they had not come up with the idea of doing something musical together before.
But that has now changed: as a duo they have energetically started to build up a full-fledged repertoire with their spontaneous and own interpretations of maritime and other folk.
Codswallop nowadays means nonsense, but the origin is (as far as we know), from the cod fishery, where after being pulled on board the cod was flapping around, and that was called a wallop. So a Cod's Wallop, something that serves no purpose and now in the sense of nonsense