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Festival at Mystic Seaport june 8-11 38th annual sea music festival at mystic seaport TM 38th annual sea music at mystic seaport festival june 8-11, 2017 Thank you all for attending our 38th annual Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport! We have again gathered some of the foremost scholars and finest performers of maritime music from far and wide. These are the people who are keeping alive the power and richness of story and song from the seaborne trades of their diverse cultures that exemplify our shared human fascination with the sea. Music from Australia, France, England, and across the United States will fill the Museum this weekend. We’re glad you’re here to share in the fun and learning from this wondrous world of sea music. Geoff Kaufman FESTIVAL STAFF BECOME A FRIEND OF THE FESTIVAL Director: Geoff Kaufman The Friends of the Festival is the leadership club for the Sea Music Festival. We invite you to join this dedicated group of individuals who, through their : Adviser & Department Supervisor generosity, ensure the well-being and future of the Sea Music Festival. Denise Kegler To learn more, call the Mystic Seaport Advancement Department at Planning Assistant: Bonnie Miller 860-572-5365 or e-mail [email protected] Symposium Chairmen: Erik Ingmundson & Craig Edwards Clipper Deane & Suzanne Hetric Philip Kuepper & Michael Symposium Moderator: Craig Edwards (Gifts of $1,000 & above Charlie Ipcar Meyer William & Vicky Kelsey Richard & Judy MacDonald Symposium Committees: individual, $2,500 family) Hilaire Leavitt Alan McArdle & Jinny Mason Selection: Craig Edwards, J. Revell Carr III, Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Blumberg Bill Lehrman & Carol John Mazza Glenn Gordinier, Robert Walser Greg Bullough Pierson Tom Milke Mary Dansighani Organization: Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, David & Ann Loomis Joy & Dwon Miller Folk Music Society of NY Mandy MacDonald & Ed Bonnie Milner Erik Ingmundson, Geoff Kaufman, In Memory of Paul DiBlasi Obarowski Suzanne Mrozak Tom Van Winkle In Memory of Conni & Teresa McShane Barry O’Brien Children’s Stage Coordinator: Jesse Edwards Hans Koldewey Steven & Elizabeth Mezick Nancy Peraro Bob Walser Volunteer Coordinators: Meg Frost, Karen Baker Sarah L. Pollock Dave & Darbee Percival George & Louise Schmidt Kathy Peters Participant Hospitality: Ted Rupar Fred Seebeck Ron & Judy Peters Packet Bill & Norma Service Ernie Pigeon Sound Engineers: Marc Bernier, Dennis Cook (Gifts of $500-$999 individual, Edie Stern Barry Pinkowitz $1,000-$2,499 family) Sound Volunteers: Naomi Ingber & Kayla Seeger Kathleen Sturgis Piere Pureur Production & Design: Mystic Seaport Stan Denek & Lee Formicola Sheila Sylvan Kitsie Reeves & Joseph Phoebe & Vincent Dopulos Arthur & Susan Tobiason Morneault Tim Radford Roll & Go Win Reinhardt Mr. & Mrs. Richard Roy Peter & Elizabeth Sorensen Dory (Gifts up to $249) VOLUNTEERS Nancy K. Salter Jonathan Aibel & Julie Salty Dick & Sara Pfeena Karen Baker Fred Pierce Rohwein Stephen & Susan Sanfilippo Kelsey Baker Scott Redfield Schooner Lorraine Allen James Sherman (Gifts of $250-$499 Jamie Bishop John Rhoads Joy Bennett Thomas Shoesmith & Donna individual, $500-$999 family) Jann Campbell Tim Rowe Katrina Bercaw Mendell Anna Marie Cartagena Meg Roy Celeste Bernardo-Dunn Tom Brillat Carl & Meg Smith Gene Cartagena Rich Roy Claire Bessette & Dane Miller Alexis Clements Sheila Sosnowski Bob Constantine Brian Schiller Todd Brink Mr. & Mrs. Cournoyer Philip Sternberg Donna Goodspeed Chris Setari Robert Carlson John & Anne Cuyler Steven Taylor Bob Hansen Thomas Shoesmith Sarah Clinton Paula Daddio Mrs J.(Jacquie) L. Wadsworth Mike Kennedy Heidi Slaney Cynosure Stanley Dapkus In Memory of Wendy Wood Sue Latourette Carl Smith Kim Deveau Faith Davison Chapple Ginny Mason Meg Smith Mary Evans Vincent Dopulos Stephen C. White Alan McArdle Walter Wennberg Ron & Margaret Fournier Allan Fingeret Deborah Winograd & Clyde Paul Mercer Brian Woronick Brian Gill Stephen Ginsberg Tyndale Lynz Morahn Don & Sue Grant Anthony Giordano David Wittenberg Mary Morse David Jones Susan Kaczynski Alton & Christine Woodams Julie Moulton Janet Handford John Kudulis & Paula Amy Wood Andrea Penta Robert Hansen Thompson Allen & Janie Wolfe Chris Penta 1 schedule of events contents See Map for Locations Symposium 3-4 Schedule & Presenters Thursday, June 8, 7 p.m. “Fitting Out” Concert” at the Boat Shed 32 Featuring: Bonnie & Dan Milner (MCs), Current MS Chantey Staff Workshop Grid 5 (Brien Bradley, Craig Edwards, Jesse Edwards, David Iler, Geoff Kaufman, Barry Keenan, Denise Kegler, Chris Koldewey, David Littlefield, Mystic Seaport 6 Bror Okerblom, Don Sineti, B. J. Whitehouse), Chantey Staff The Johnson Girls, Nordet, and The Vox Hunters Friday, June 9, 8:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. Festival Performers 7-8 “Music of the Sea” Symposium, Part 1 Greenmanville Church 3 Workshops, 9-10 Moderator: Craig Edwards Demonstrations, & Special Events Friday, June 9, 7 p.m. “Unmooring” Concert at the Boat Shed 32 Featuring: Denise Kegler (MC), Atwater-Donnelly, Martin & Shan Graebe, Tom Lewis, Mustard’s Retreat, The Roaring 40s, The Vox Hunters, & Anayis Wright Chantey Office: Saturday, June 10, 8:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. 860.572.0711, ext. 5037 “Music of the Sea” Symposium, Part 2 Greenmanville Church 3 [email protected] Moderator: Craig Edwards www.mysticseaport.org/ seamusicfestival Saturday, June 10, 12 -5 p.m. Concerts, Workshops, & Demonstrations throughout the Museum Saturday, June 10, 7 p.m. “Full Sail” Concert at the Boat Shed 32 Featuring: Geoff Kaufman (MC), Jerry Bryant, The Chanteens, Jeff Davis & Dave Ruch, The Johnson Girls, Larry Kaplan, Nordet, & Dick Swain Sunday, June 11, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Concerts, Workshops, & Demonstrations throughout the Museum Sunday, June 11, 3 - 6 p.m. Final Concert at the Boat Shed 32 Featuring: Laura Travis (MC) and a song each from All Performers 2 symposium schedule Co-sponsored by Williams College, the Williams-Mystic Program, the Maritime Studies Program of the University of Connecticut, and Mystic Seaport. Friday, June 9 8:30 a.m. COFFEE AND MORNING REFRESHMENTS 9:00 a.m. Official Welcome 9:15 a.m. David Peloquin, Independent Scholar, “Counterpane to Coffin Life-Buoy: Lunar Symbolism and the Song of Creation in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick” 10:00 a.m. Don & Sue Brian, Independent Scholars, “Norfolk Island: On the Middle Ground” 10:45 a.m. MORNING BREAK 11:00 a.m. Mary Garvey, Independent Scholar, “Codfish In the Spring of the Year: Songs of Codfishing” 11:45 a.m. Marie Stepanova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, “Sea Themes in Czech Songs” 12:30 p.m. LUNCH 1:45 p.m. Martin & Shan Graebe, Independent Scholars, “Brandy for the Parson: English Smugglers in Song and Story” 2:30 p.m. Stephen Nicholas Sanfilippo, Maine Maritime Academy, University of Maine at Machias, “‘Cruise of the Lapwing’: Recovering a 19th-Century Maine Schooner Fisherman’s Ballad” Saturday, June 10 8:30 a.m. COFFEE AND MORNING REFRESHMENTS 9:00 a.m. Official Welcome 9:15 a.m. James Sherman, Machiasport Historical Society, “‘Where River Meets the Rail’: A Poem Becomes a Song Honoring Lumbering, River Driving, and Railroading on Maine’s Machias River” 10:00 a.m. Robert D. Madison, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, “A Trout in the Milk: Henry Thoreau and Tom Bowline” 10:30 MORNING BREAK 10:45 Panel Discussion: “Language, Power, and Memory in Historical Music Performance: Perspectives on Racist and Sexist Terms in Collected Chantey Texts” Panelists: Craig Edwards, Denise Kegler, Rhonda Rucker, Sparky Rucker, Anayis Wright 3 symposium presenters Don and Sue Brian are indepen- of the American sailor. David has taught eral other museums. He plays in half a dozen dent scholars, researchers, educators, and meditation for more than twenty years, and bands, performs a variety of traditional styles musicians from Australia. They lived and he lectures on Herman Melville, Mysticism on several instruments, and tours interna- taught on Norfolk Island for five years and in American Literature, and Persian Ecstatic tionally. A past Assistant Director and Direc- have worked extensively for Norfolk Island Poetry. He is a teacher and consultant for tor of the Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival, Museum, conserving and researching docu- Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory. he currently serves as moderator for this ments and artifacts, both in the collection Symposium. and from recent archeological work. They Marie Stepanova is a Ph.D candidate in have presented on Norfolk Island’s whaling Philology at Charles University in Prague, Denise Kegler has had the privilege history and music at numerous institu- Czech Republic. Her varied background in of performing as a chanteyman at Mystic tions and venues, including the Australian Language, Communications, Film Studies, Seaport for the last ten years. Currently, she National Folk Festival. Journalism, and Pedagogy has taken her to holds the position of Performance and Gal- several parts of the U.S., Italy, Germany, lery Programs Supervisor through which she Mary Garvey has always loved maritime Croatia, and Scotland. She is currently has developed several innovative programs music. She says: “I grew up on the Columbia doing field work on the Slavonian/Bosnian for the Museum. Her new production “Hear River, where my father was a rural post- border. Us: Voices from the Past,” which explores man, so we used to go on drives to the most themes of gender and expectation, will debut beautiful places, deserted villages all built on Stephen Sanfilippo began studying this summer. As an undergrad, Denise stud- stilts . my father and his
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