Jesse Hawley and James Stanley

Sea Monsters is a theatrical song cycle written and performed live by Jesse Hawley & James Stanley, with Leon Stanley and Alice Stanley. Through songs and stories, they summon the dark demons of the deep – Krakens, Sirens, Leviathans – and propose theories on how to destroy/survive them. Embodying a foolish sea captain, his headstrong wife, and their motley crew aboard a vessel far out to sea, they use guitar, ukulele, bass, fiddle, accordion, percussion, close harmonies, and musical layering to (much like the monsters) lure audiences into a stormy deep that may or may not parallel torments in the here and now.