List of maritime music festivals

List of maritime music festivals

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Related genres Sea shanty, folk music, choral music, early music
Location Worldwide
Related events Category:Music festivals, Category:Maritime music festivals, list of music festivals, folk festivals, early music festivals, Celtic music festivals

List of maritime music festivals is a sortable incomplete list of regularly occurring festivals, throughout the world, which feature or which usually contain significant performances of maritime music, a style of folk music largely based on the sea shanty. This list may have some overlap with list of folk festivals and list of early music festivals.

Shanties had antecedents in the working chants of British and other national maritime traditions. They were notably influenced by songs of African Americans, and shanty repertoire borrowed from the contemporary popular music enjoyed by sailors, including minstrel music, popular marches, and land-based folk songs. The music has since appeared at early folk festivals, and by the late 1970s, the activities of enthusiasts and scholar-performers at places like the Mystic Seaport Museum (who initiated an annual Sea Music Festival in 1979) and the San Francisco Maritime Museum established sea music—inclusive of shanties, sea songs, and other maritime music—as a genre with its own circuit of festivals, record labels, performance protocol, and so on. Some of the performances may be held at maritime museums, in conjunction with boat shows or maritime festivals, or at other venues friendly to acoustic music.

The performances at festivals can take several forms, as shanty performances today reflect a range of musical approaches and tastes. There are performers who favor a "traditional" style, who often perform work songs a capella or only with light instrumentation typical of sailors (e.g. concertina). A great many of the performers of shanties do so in what might be distinguished as a "folk music" style, often accompanied by guitar and banjo. Still other performers come to shanties from backgrounds in pop, rock, or theatrical music, and perform in what may be called a "contemporary" style. Some shanties are performed in a "classical" choir style (like the Robert Shaw Chorale).[1][2]

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Main article: Lists of festivals

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Festivals by location

Location (country, city) Time Festival Debut year Associated organization(s) Link
France France, Paimpol Festival du chant de marin[3] 1989
Germany Germany, Stade October, 3rd weekend Stader Shantychor-Festival[4] Stade Aktuell GmbH
Netherlands Netherlands, Giethoorn September De Slag op 't Wiede[5]
Netherlands Netherlands, Rotterdam September, 1st week International Shanty Festival[6]
Norway Norway June, 1st weekend Langesund International Shantyfestival[7] 1991
Poland Poland, Kraków February International Sea Songs Festival, "Shanties"[8] 1981
United Kingdom United Kingdom, Falmouth June Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival[9] A fundraiser for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
United Kingdom United Kingdom, Harwich October, 2nd weekend Harwich Shanty Festival[10]
United States United States, CA, San Diego July Sea Chantey Festival[11] Maritime Museum of San Diego
United States United States, CT, Mystic June, 2nd week Annual Sea Music Festival [12]1979 Mystic Seaport
United States United States, NH Portsmouth September, last weekend in Portsmouth Maritime Music Festival[13] 1999- present Market Square, Portsmouth, NH
United States United States, IL, Chicago February, 4th week Chicago Maritime Festival[14] Chicago History Museum

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See also

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References

  1. ↑ Sea Shanties, Living Stereo (1961)
  2. ↑ Songs of the Sea, Columbia (1956)
  3. ↑ von Torsten Weber. "Versicherung Infos vom Fachmann | Alles zu Versicherungen aus erster Hand". Paimpol-2011.com. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  4. ↑ "Shantychor-Festival - Stade Aktuell GmbH". Aktuelles-stade.de. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  5. ↑ "De Slag op 't Wiede". Deslagophetwiede.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  6. ↑ "WELKOM". Shantyfestivalrotterdam.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  7. ↑ "Shantyfestival". Shanty.no. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  8. ↑ "Festiwal Shanties". Shanties.pl. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  9. ↑
  10. ↑ "Harwich International Shanty Festival 9th - 11th October 2015 | Celebrating songs of the sea". Harwichshantyfestival.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  11. ↑ "Sea Chantey Festival". Sdmaritime.org. 2014-08-03. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  12. ↑ "Sea Music Festival". Mysticseaport.org. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  13. ↑ "Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, Portsmouth, NH". Newenglandfolknetwork.org. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  14. ↑ "April 18, 2015 | Chicago Maritime Festival-nautical,shanties,sea songs,sailing | Home". Chicagomaritimefestival.org. Retrieved 2015-04-10.

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