The Mighty Manatees is an American band based in
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Montgomery County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the third-most populous county in Pennsylvania and the 73rd-most populous county in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the county was 856,55 ...
. Throughout a career spanning four decades, the band has performed in a wide range of styles including
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
,
reggae,
country,
folk,
ska,
funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...
,
zydeco and
rock 'n roll—distilled into a genre described as "Dreadneck", a term not easily defined. They have formerly been known by a variety of other stage names, including ''The Manatees'', and ''The Mighty Manatees Medicine Show''.
On September 11, 2002 the band played in a tribute to those who died in the
September 11 attacks.
In 2012 Jim Cavanaugh and Will Hodgson played in Belfast and Dublin, backing up
Shana Morrison
Shana Caledonia Morrison (born April 7, 1970) is an Irish-American singer-songwriter and the daughter of Northern Irish singer-songwriter, Van Morrison, and his ex-wife, Janet Rigsbee Minto.
Early life
Morrison grew up in Marin County, Califor ...
opening for father
Van Morrison.
In 2015 the group performed at a theater in
Sellersville, Pennsylvania to celebrate their 30th anniversary and to memorialize a Pennsylvania-born teenager who died of a brain tumor.
Discography
*1988 ''
assetteManatees - Live''
*1989 ''
assetteHistory Of The Manatees Vol. One''
*1991 ''High Water''
*1991 ''The Shoreline Sampler Vol. One'' (Compilation)
*1992 ''The Mighty Manatees - Whiskey Joe's''
*1996 ''South Paw''
*1996 ''Live Medicine''
*1996 Tees In The Keys''
*2002 ''All Heaven Broke''
*2002 ''Manatee Masquerade''
*2003 ''Go Forward'' (Compilation)
*2003 ''Good Friday Tracks - La Banda Grande''
*2004 ''Tall Pines'' (acoustic)
*2006 ''No "L"'' (
Christmas compilation)
*2008 ''The Mighty Manatees''
*2009 ''The Mighty Manatees Live!''
*2013 ''Medicine Show''
Video Releases
*1989 ''Manatees In Manhattan'' (60min)
*1990 ''Save This'' (30 min)
References
External links
The Mighty Manatees's official site
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Musical groups from Pennsylvania