Bringing singing and songwriting together with the history of Yorkshire's smuggling coast.
Invite our team to work in your school, company or charity.
Day & Half Day
Schools
We work with both Primary and Secondary schools to bring the singing of classic shanties and vocal exercises to promote teamwork, develop confidence and boost wellbeing.
Additionally, we can incorporate songwriting as part of the visit. This develops skills in literacy, numeracy, teamwork and confidence.
Festivals
Smugglers Workshops bring family fun and education to festivals – with sessions that can be tailored for specific age groups and whole families. They include singing of classic shanties, sea-themed games, history-made-fun and on-the-spot songwriting.
They can also include performances by the Saltburn Smugglers and Saltburn Children’s Shanty Choir (subject to booking).
Companies
Discover your inner pirate! Our corporate workshops build on core teamworking skills to explore easy group singing, vocal warmups to enhance confidence, presentation skills with a wide application and lastly, how smuggling history can strangely benefit your workplace scenario!
As educators, we’ve worked at hundreds of schools and festivals and more recently at:
Professor Keith Ayling MMus
Founder & Songwriter
Founder of Saltburn Smugglers, Keith is a Professor of Songwriting at Leeds Conservatoire, Chair of Education for the IVORS Academy and has over 30 years experience of delivering songwriting workshops.
Kate Ayling
Co-Founder and Choral MD
Kate is an experienced violinist, pianist and choral director with twenty five years experience in school music teaching.
Phil Wing
Children's Choir Leader
Phil has years of experience as a professional guitarist and primary education music specialist, working across North Yorkshire and Teesside.