The Wareham Historical Society will host a free evening of music and ice cream sundaes at 6 p.m. on Sunday, August 19, at the Old Methodist Meeting House located at 495 Main Street.

The New Bedford Harbor Sea Chantey Chorus, under the direction of Tom Goux, will provide the music of the sea featuring traditional and contemporary chanties, ballads and historical songs.

The Wareham Historical Society will provide the ice cream sundaes. Everyone else will provide the clapping and toe tapping.

Admission is free, but donations will be accepted.

For more information, call 508-273-0069.

The Sea Chantey Chorus is a volunteer organization of the "Schooner Ernestina."

The Schooner Ernestina was launched on February 1, 1894, in Essex, Massachusetts.

The schooner Effie M. Morrissey was part of the Wonton Fish Company fleet sailing out of Gloucester. She was a ‘highliner’ of the Gloucester fishing fleet with record catches of Grand Banks cod.

The schooner then went on to work as a Navy survey vessel and Arctic explorer under the command of Captain Robert A. Bartlett. After 20 years in the Arctic, Greenland, and Hudson Bay, Ernestina sailed through the Panama Canal and up to the Bering Strait and the Aleutian Islands.

Om 1947, she was purchased by Henrique Mendes and renamed Ernestina. She then started her third career as a Cape Verdean packet ship traveling the ports of Boston, New Bedford, and Cape Verdean Islands.

In 1975, she was gifted to the 'people of the United States’ as a sovereign gift between nations from the newly independent country of Cape Verde.