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Horse Box Hobos - Storytelling & Song

A Creative Duo Who Bring Stories to Life Through Song

The only people you need for... Sea shanties! Stories! Silliness!

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Upcoming Events

  • Mini Pirates!
    Mini Pirates!
    Mon 14 Apr
    14 Apr 2025, 11:30 – 12:00
    Zion Community Centre Bristol, Bishopsworth Rd, Bristol BS13 7JW, UK
    A sailor went to sea, sea, sea to see what they could see, see, see!
  • School Assembly Singlalong!
    School Assembly Singlalong!
    21 Mar 2025, 19:00 – 22:00
    Zion Community Centre Bristol, Bishopsworth Rd, Bristol BS13 7JW, UK
    Horsebox Hobos present Whether your ‘Morning Has Broken’ or ‘If I Had a Hammer’, you can ‘Kum By Yah’ to Zion Community Café and find yourself ‘Lord of the Dance’. Come together and sing songs we all know with our resident vicar and librarian, and your recollections thrown in. Dress up encouraged.
  • Zion Community Centre Wassail, Folk & Shanty Bar Night - Free
    Zion Community Centre Wassail, Folk & Shanty Bar Night - Free
    17 Jan 2025, 19:00 – 22:00
    Zion Community Centre, Bishopsworth Rd, Bristol BS13 7JW, UK
    Back by popular demand, our residency at the warm and welcoming Zion Community Centre sees up bring you folk, sea and wassail songs appropriate to the season. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sea-shanty-folk-wassail-night-at-zion-tickets-1115910471259?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&_gl=1*1ill5d1*_up*MQ..*_ga*ND
  • Sea Shanty & Storytelling Bar Night
    Sea Shanty & Storytelling Bar Night
    15 Nov 2024, 19:00 – 22:30 GMT
    Bristol, Bishopsworth Rd, Bristol BS13 7JW, UK
    Back by popular demand! Our residency at the warm and welcoming Zion Community Centre sees us bring you new songs and tales to warm your autumnal cockles. Book a free ticket here as we get busy! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sea-shanty-bar-night-free-tickets-948285225637
  • Mini Pirates!
    Mini Pirates!
    Multiple Dates
    Tue 27 Aug
    27 Aug 2024, 19:00 – 23:00
    Bristol, Bishopsworth Rd, Bristol BS13 7JW, UK
  • Zion Community Centre Shanty Bar Night - Free
    Zion Community Centre Shanty Bar Night - Free
    16 Aug 2024, 19:00 – 22:00
    Zion Community Centre, Bishopsworth Rd, Bristol BS13 7JW, UK
    Back by popular demand, our residency at the warm and welcoming Zion Community Centre sees up bring you new songs and tales each time. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sea-shanty-bar-night-free-tickets-845852416347?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1
  • Zionbury Kids Festival
    Zionbury Kids Festival
    27 Jul 2024, 14:00 – 17:00
    Bristol, Bishopsworth Rd, Bristol BS13 7JW, UK
    Arrr with sea shanties, oooh with piratical stories and tee hee with sock puppets as the Horsebox Hobos get you laughing, danching and making some happy noise!
  • Zion Community Centre Shanty Bar Night - Free
    Zion Community Centre Shanty Bar Night - Free
    31 May 2024, 19:00 – 22:00
    Zion Community Centre, Bishopsworth Rd, Bristol BS13 7JW, UK
    Back by popular demand, our residency at the warm and welcoming Zion Community Centre sees up bring you new songs and tales each time. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sea-shanty-bar-night-free-tickets-845852416347?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1
  • Zion Community Centre Shanty Bar Night - Free
    Zion Community Centre Shanty Bar Night - Free
    23 Feb 2024, 19:00 – 22:00
    Zion Community Centre, Bishopsworth Rd, Bristol BS13 7JW, UK
    Back by popular demand, our third shanty night at the warm and welcoming Zion Community Centre. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sea-shanty-bar-night-free-tickets-759608097267?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1
  • Shanties and Anarchy (a little bit) at Rockaway Park
    Shanties and Anarchy (a little bit) at Rockaway Park
    18 Feb 2024, 14:30 – 15:30
    Rockaway Park, Eastcourt Rd, Temple Cloud, Bristol BS39 5BU, UK
    Rockaway Park is home to lots of art, artists and a healthy does of anarchy. Set in a old quarry that was a scrapyard the atmosphere is Banksy meets the funfair meets...what is that? https://www.rockawaypark.co.uk/ourevents
  • Zion Community Centre Shanty Night
    Zion Community Centre Shanty Night
    24 Nov 2023, 19:00 – 25 Nov 2023, 22:00
    Bristol, Bishopsworth Rd, Bristol BS13 7JW, UK
    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sea-shanty-bar-night-free-tickets-694062629007?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1
  • Hotwells Festival Shanty Afternoon Session
    Hotwells Festival Shanty Afternoon Session
    01 Oct 2023, 14:30 – 15:30
    Bristol, 1 Nova Scotia Pl, Bristol BS1 6XJ, UK
    Come down to the tent outside the Nova Scotia pub by the Cumberland Basin and join in with the rousing tunes!
  • Supper and song at the Barleywood Cafe
    Supper and song at the Barleywood Cafe
    23 Sept 2023, 19:00 – 22:00
    Barley Wood Cafe, Barley Wood, Walled Garden, Long Ln, Wrington, Bristol BS40 5SA, UK
    THe Barleywood Cafe presents a sumptuous night of food and song with Ship Shape Shanties in the orchard!
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