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39TH ANNUAL SEA FESTIVAL PROGRAM 39TH ANNUAL SEA AT MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM -10

Thank you all for attending our 39th annual Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport Museum! 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 from the seaborne trades of their diverse that exemplify our shared human fascination with the sea. Music from Canada, , , Iceland, and across the United States will fill the Museum this weekend. We’re glad you’re here to share in the fun and learn from this wondrous world of sea music.

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. Adviser: Denise Kegler We invite you to join this dedicated group of individuals who, through their generosity, ensure the well-being and future of the Sea Music Festival. To Planning Assistant: Bonnie Milner learn more, call the Mystic Seaport Museum Advancement Department at Symposium Chairmen: Erik Ingmundson & 860.572.5365 or email [email protected] Craig Edwards Clipper Janet Handford Toby Coit & Richard Moderator: Craig Edwards (Gifts of $1,000 The Heavenly Twins Wolak Symposium Committees: Individual, $2500 or Skia Laurence & Stan William Cournoyer more Family) Heckman Allan L. Fingeret Selection: Craig Edwards, Erik Ingmundson Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Charlie Ipcar IMO Ric Garren Organization: Mary K Bercaw Edwards, Erik Blumberg William & Vicky Kelsey Steve Ginsberg Ingmundson, Geoff Kaufman, Tom Van Winkle Greg Bullough Hilaire Leavitt Jane E. Hebert Mary Dansighani Housing Assistant: Lyndsey Pyrke-Fairchild Bill Lehrman & Carol David Jones Society of NY Pierson Peter Kasin Children’s Stage Coordinator: Jesse Edwards In Memory of Len Lipton & Ellen Wink Dick & Judy Paul DiBlasi Donor Hospitality: Anayis Wright David & Ann Loomis MacDonald In Memory of Conni & Alan McArdle & Volunteer Coordinators: Meg Frost & Mandy MacDonald & Hans Koldewey Jinny Mason Ed Obarowski Karen Baker Thomas P. Milke Packet Teresa McShane Participant Hospitality: Ted Rupar Dwon & Joy Miller (Gifts of $500-$999 Steven & Elizabeth Bonnie Milner Marc Bernier & Dennis Cook Individual, $1,000- Mezick Sound Engineers: Suzanne Mrozak 2,499 Family) Barry Pinkowitz Barry O’Brien Robert Hansen Sarah L. Pollock Stan Denek & Lee Nancy Peraro Roll and Go, Inc. Dave & Darbee VOLUNTEERS Formicola George & Louise Percival Kelsey Baker Mary Morse Carl Lohmann Schmidt Kathy Peters Jamie Bishop Juli Moulton Tim Radford Fred Seebeck Ron & Judy Peters Jann Campbell Fred Pierce Tod C. Raynor Kathleen Sturgis Ernie & Amy Pigeon Anna Marie John Rhoads Win Reinhardt Edie Stern Meg & Rich Roy Peter & Elizabeth Cartagena Tim Rowe Sheila E. Sylvan Stephen & Susan Sorensen Susan & Arthur Sanfilippo Gene Cartagena Eric Russell William C. Taylor Tobiason Norma Service John Choate Brian Schiller Deborah Winograd & Donna & Thomas Bill Engstrom Chris Setari Schooner Clyde Tyndale Shoesmith (Gifts of $250-$499 Carl & Meg Smith Sarah Foley Thomas Shoesmith Individual, $500 – 999 Dory Shirley & Buz Smuckler Donna Goodspeed Heidi Slaney Family) (Gifts up to $249) Peter Souza Wendy Iseman Carl Smith Claire Bessette & Dane Miller Anonymous Philip Sternberg Mike Kennedy Meg Smith Steven & Mary Taylor Todd Brink Jonathan Aibel & Julie Rohwein Denise Vitale Sue Latourette Walter Wennberg Robert Carlson The Barrouallie The Vox Hunters Denise Markovitz Brian Woronick Sara & Lura Clinton Michael Wasta Mike Markovitz Hillary Zaenichik Cynosure Joy C. Bennett Steve & Maggie White Kim Deveau Paul Mercer Roswell Brown David Wittenberg Mary Evans Lynz Morahn Jerry W. Bryant Allen & Janice Wolfe Ron & Margaret Gene Cartagena Alton Woodams Fournier Mike & Dori Charnetski Anayis J. Wright Brian Gill Greg Gregonis SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SEE MAP FOR LOCATIONS CONTENTS Thursday, June 8, 7 p.m. Symposium 3-4 Schedule & “Fitting Out” Concert at the Boat Shed Presenters Featuring: Bonnie & Dan Milner (MCs), Current MSM Chantey Staff (Craig Edwards, Jesse Edwards, David Iler, Geoff Kaufman, Barry Keenan, Denise Kegler, Chris Koldewey, David Littlefield, Don Sineti, Workshop Grid 5 B.J. Whitehouse, and Anayis Wright), Walter Askew, Jim Mageean & Pat Sheridan, FUNI, Matthew Byrne, Mara & Rokus Korus Mystic Seaport Museum 6 Chantey Staff Friday, June 9, 8:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m. Festival Performers 7-8 “Music of the Sea” Symposium, Part 1 3 Greenmanville Church Moderator: Craig Edwards Workshops, 9-10 Demonstrations, & Special Events Friday, June 9, 7 p.m.

“Unmooring” Concert at the Boat Shed 32 Featuring: Chris Koldewey (MC), Walter Askew, Sara Grey & Kieron Means, Jim Mageean & Pat Sheridan, Dan Milner, Lee Murdock, Lynn Noel, Mara & Rokus Korus

Saturday, June 10, 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.

“Music of the Sea” Symposium, Part 2 Greenmanville Church 3 Moderator: Craig Edwards

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: John Roberts (MC), Matthew Byrne, Judy Cook, FUNI, 3 Ravens, Steve Turner, The Vox Hunters, Dan Zanes & Claudia Eliaza

Sunday, June 11, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Concerts, Workshops, & Demonstrations throughout the Museum Chantey Office: 860.572.0711, ext. 5037 Sunday, June 11, 3-6 p.m. [email protected] Final Concert at the Boat Shed 32 Featuring: Laura Travis (MC) and a song each from All Performers www.mysticseaport.org/seamusicfestival “MUSIC OF THE SEA” SYMPOSIUM Sponsored by , the Williams-Mystic Program, and Mystic Seaport Museum

Friday

8:30 Coffee

9:00 Welcoming Remarks

9:15 Stephen N. Sanfilippo ““Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me”: Sag Harbor’s Whaling Hymn and George Smith’s Voyage in the Sag Harbor Whaleship Thames

10:00 Isaiah Green Imaginative Sonic Ecologies and French Expressionism in Debussy’s “La Mer”

10:45 Morning Break

11:00 Tim Radford of South Hampshire Waterways

11:45 Michael Derderian Yankee Privateer: Celebrating the Continental Navy’s Most Lucrative Cruise

12:30 Lunch

1:45 Scott C. Martin “Farewell to Grog”: The Union Navy’s Campaign against Alcohol

2:30 Amanda E. Daly Berman “Sounding Southie”: The Changing Soundscape of Boston’s Seaport District

Saturday

8:30 Coffee

9:00 Welcoming Remarks

9:15 Panel Discussion: Patrick Ford, Craig Edwards, Geoff Kaufman, Denise Kegler Exploring Musical Treasures in the Mystic Seaport Museum Collections: Research, Exhibits, and Interpretation

10:00 Edie Stern From the Sea to the Stars: Maritime Music and Science

10:45 Morning Break

11:00 Vienna Carroll with Keith Johnston “Shallow Brown”: Developing a Musical About Pre-Civil War African-American Sailors

Please note that the Saturday morning break is intended to be only 15 min- utes so that we can wrap up at 11:45 to allow a reset for the first workshop. SYMPOSIUM BIOS

Stephen N. Sanfilippo, Ph.D., has been University, OH. He has published extensively and Musical Director, is the award-winning researching and performing historic on the interaction of and social Artistic Director of the American songs of the sea since the mid-1970s. He politics and has served as President of of Harlem. Keith is a Director at CUNY received his Ph.D. in from Stony the Alcohol and Drugs Historical Society, Creative Arts Team. He received his B.A. in Brook University and recently retired as an affiliate of the American Historical Humanities from New York University. an assistant professor of Maritime History Association. A native Long Islander, he at Maine Maritime Academy. With his narrated “Blow Ye Winds: The Story of Panel Discussion wife Susan, he divides his time between a Sag Harbor ” for the Chair: Downeast Maine and the North Fork of Department of the Suffolk County Historical Patrick Ford is the Special Collections Long Island. Over the years, he has sung Society. Dr. Martin’s email address is Librarian at Mystic Seaport Museum. sea-themed hymns and Gospel songs at [email protected]. He previously held positions as Project St. Agnes Church in Greenport, N.Y., and Archivist/Curator at the Maine Historical St. John’s Church, in Pembroke, ME. Amanda E. Daly Berman, Ph.D., is an Society, Special Collections Cataloger Ethnomusicologist and a Visiting Lecturer at MIT, and Project Cataloger at Harvard Isaiah Green is a graduate student at Salem State University in Salem, MA. University. He is guitarist and currently pursuing an M.M. in at She has also taught at Boston University. of the Colossal, whose complete the University of Tennessee Knoxville. He Dr. Berman has written and spoken on discography has recently been reissued. earned his B.A. in Vocal Music subjects ranging from the Cape Breton He holds a B. A. in English from Marquette from East Tennessee State University. His diaspora and the Boston Cape Breton University, an M.A. in Art and Architectural research interests include , community to medical History from UW-, and an MLIS Music and Technoculture, Vocal and , the relationship from Dominican University. Performance, and Analysis. between digital platforms and traditional music communities, and music, peace- Panelists: , a native of Hampshire, building activities, and the war on terror. Tim Radford Craig Edwards is an ethnomusicologist, England, has been involved in folk music, independent scholar, music teacher and song, and since the late 1960s. After Edie Stern, M.S., is a retired technologist, professional . He has worked moving to Oxfordshire at age 25, he helped with 45 years of participation in science as a staff musician at Mystic Seaport research and revive local Morris fiction and a long-abiding interest Museum since 1984, was a member of the from the villages of Adderbury, Kirtlington, in folk and . An inventor, she Mystic Seaport Museum-based chantey and Duns Tew. Since immigrating to the U.S. holds 191 U.S. patents and is a recipient quartet Forebitter, and has designed in 1996, he has frequently taught of the American Society of Mechanical music installations and exhibits for Mystic and dancing at Pinewoods Camp. Two of Engineers’ Kate Gleason Award for Lifetime Seaport, the Ellis Island Museum, and Tim’s recordings include songs collected Achievement. She has written and edited several other museums. A past Assistant in Hampshire by Dr. George B. Gardiner , led program Director and Director of the Mystic Seaport between 1905 and 1909: George Blake’s development for science fiction clubs and Sea Music Festival, he currently serves as Legacy (2009), the complete repertoire conventions, and hosted (and sung at) moderator for this Symposium. of a Hampshire singer, and From Spithead many filk music circles. She was Division Roads (2012), featuring maritime songs. Head for Programs at the 1992 World Geoff Kaufman is the Foreman of the Science Fiction Convention, MagiCon, in Chantey Program at Mystic Seaport Michael R. Derderian, M.A., received his Orlando, FL, curates historical art exhibits Museum and Director of the Sea Music degree in Diplomacy and Military Studies at science fiction conventions, and is Festival for 24 of its 39 years. With Craig, from Hawaii Pacific University and has webmaster for .ORG. Edie has also he was a member of the Museum-based since worked as an archeologist and been an aficionado of sea music for more quartet Forebitter, and he continues an researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot than 40 years. active performance schedule outside the Museum. He surveyed the coast of Block Museum. Island for FEMA following Hurricane Sandy Vienna Carroll is a Griot, a singing to determine its effects on archeological storyteller. She learned music from the Denise Kegler is the Performance and sites and presently works as a Park Ranger, Black Ladies of her youth and formalized Gallery Programs Supervisor at Mystic researcher, and historical interpreter at her cultural studies with a B.A. in African Seaport Museum, as well as a chanteyman. National Park historic sites, including the American Studies at Yale University. She strives to create innovative interpretive Adams National Park, site of the home of Vienna’s art challenges deeply held programming. This year, she has presented John and John Quincy Adams. stereotypes about the realities of the Black her work at museum conferences for the family, love, and resistance during slavery IMTAL and ALHFAM organizations. Denise Scott Christopher Martin, Ph.D., is Chair and explores the role of music as a part studied music-education with a voice of the History and American Studies of the everyday reality of antebellum life. concentration at Central State Departments at Bowling Green State Keith Johnston, SHALLOW BROWN’s Artistic University. SATURDAY, JUNE 9 • SEA MUSIC FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

VILLAGE GREEN PERFORMANCE 7 Rain TOM CLAGETT SHIPBOARD GREENMANVILLE FISHTOWN FAMILY STAGE (Thomas Oyster STAGE 13 (P.R. Mallory Sites BOAT SHED 32 (Ropewalk 27 ) CHURCH 3 CHAPEL 45 House 48 ) (Figureheads 5 ) Building 4 )

CHANTEYS AT WORK 12:00 Walter Askew Judy FUNI Geoff Kaufman Matthew Byrne Cook Mageean & Sheridan Dan Milner 12:30 Don Sineti Anayis Wright Charles W. Morgan SONGS OF SHIP- WRECKS INLAND WATERS WOMEN & THE SONGS OF 1:00 Geoff Kaufman Sara Grey & SEA WHALES Brigitte Kloareg Kieron Means & WHALING Craig Edwards & The Vox Hunters 29 Lee Murdock Katell Kloareg & Denise Kegler Chris Koldewey Mageean & Yuna Léon Jesse Edwards 1:30 MAN OVERBOARD DRILL Sheridan David Iler David Littlefield Joseph Conrad 29 Barry Keenan Lynn Noel Steve Turner

SUPERNATURAL NORTH CHANTEYS AT WORK ON THE ROCKS 2:00 AT SEA ATLANTIC Denise Kegler Jesse Edwards CROSSING Steve Turner Walter Askew Don Sineti w/ 3 Ravens Judy Cook & Anayis Wright Chris Koldewey Steve Roys Lee Murdock Barry Keenan Matthew Byrne Dan Milner 2:30 The Vox Hunters FUNI Joseph Conrad 29 David Iler SATURDAY SCHEDULE SATURDAY Lynn Noel

SEINING DEMO INTERNATIONAL SONGS OF Geoff Kaufman VOICES WHALES BALLADS 3:00 & WHALING Sara Grey & SONGS OF FISHING FUNI Denise Kegler & Dan Zanes & Judy Cook Kieron Means Matthew Byrne Mara Anayis Wright David Iler Claudia Eliaza David Littlefield Lynn Noel Jim Mageean & 3:30 L. A. Dunton Lee Murdock Rokus Korus Pat Sheridan Bonnie Milner Don Sineti

WORKING ALOFT DANCE WORK- DEMO 4:00 SHOP CONTEMPORARY Geoff Kaufman Craig Edwards Charles W. Morgan Mara Walter Askew DOGWATCH 3 Ravens Matthew Byrne Dan & Bonnie 4:30 Laura Travis Jesse Edwards, Barry David Littlefield Keenan, Steve Turner Milner The Vox Hunters (4:30 - 5:30) (4:00-5:30) Charles W. Morgan

SUNDAY, JUNE 10 • SEA MUSIC FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

VILLAGE GREEN PERFORMANCE 7 Rain TOM CLAGETT SHIPBOARD GREENMANVILLE FISHTOWN FAMILY STAGE (Thomas Oyster STAGE 13 (P.R. Mallory Sites BOAT SHED 32 (Ropewalk 27 ) CHURCH 3 CHAPEL 45 House 48 ) (Figureheads 5 ) Building 4 )

9:30 Sunday Morning Hymn Sing at Greenmanville Church - led by Judy Cook, The Heavenly Twins, and Stephen Sanfilippo

SONGS OF SHIP- 11:00 WRECKS STAN ROGERS BALLADS PLOWING SEA & Craig Edwards CELEBRATION SHORE Jim Mageean & The Vox Hunters Denise Kegler Lynn Pat Sheridan Joseph Conrad 29 David Iler 3 Ravens Noel FUNI MAN OVERBOARD Chris Koldewey Steve Turner Lee Murdock 11:30 DRILL David Littlefield Anayis Wright Joseph Conrad 29

ROUND ROBIN WOMEN & THE 12:00 hosted by Don Sineti INSTRUMENTS SEA Geoff Kaufman FO’C’S’LE SONGS AT SEA Matthew Byrne Bonnie Milner B.J. Whitehouse Yuna Léon FUNI Judy Cook 2018 MS Chantey Dan Milner Steve Turner Denise Kegler Class Anayis Wright The Vox Hunters 12:30 Rokus Korus Walter Askew Joseph Conrad 29

HAITI & THE CHANTEYS AT WORK NORTHEAST SEA 1:00 IRISH SONGS OF Dan Zanes &

SUNDAY SCHEDULE SUNDAY Craig Edwards INFLUENCE PROTEST David Iler & Claudia Eliaza Lee Murdock Sara Grey & Matthew Byrne Geoff Kaufman Jim Mageean & David Littlefield w/ guest Kieron Means Lynn Noel 3 Ravens Pat Sheridan Mary Anne Chris Koldewey The Vox Hunters Don Sineti 1:30 Dan Milner Roberts Charles W. Morgan

WORKSONG CHANTEYS AT WORK SONGS OF BALLADS FOO FOO BAND 2:00 TRADITIONS IMMIGRATION B.J. Whitehouse Mara Jesse Edwards FUNI Walter Askew Children’s & Steve Turner Barry Keenan Matthew Byrne Sara Grey & Mageean & Parade leaves Rokus Korus Don Sineti Craig Edwards Kieron Means Sheridan from here 2:30 Joseph Conrad 29 Dan Milner Chris Koldewey Lee Murdock at 2:45 Geoff Kaufman SATURDAY, JUNE 9 • SEA MUSIC FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

VILLAGE GREEN PERFORMANCE 7 Rain TOM CLAGETT SHIPBOARD GREENMANVILLE FISHTOWN FAMILY STAGE (Thomas Oyster STAGE 13 (P.R. Mallory Sites BOAT SHED 32 (Ropewalk 27 ) CHURCH 3 CHAPEL 45 House 48 ) (Figureheads 5 ) Building 4 ) MYSTIC SEAPORT CHANTEY STAFF BIOS CHANTEYS AT WORK BALLADS 12:00 Walter Askew Craig Edwards has been singing at Mystic the Charles W. Morgan’s rigging to set sails. His musical compositions have been covered Judy FUNI Geoff Kaufman Matthew Byrne Seaport Museum since 1985, and his musical Having never been on a boat larger than the by groups on both sides of the Atlantic, Mageean & Sheridan Cook Dan Milner career encompasses traditional roots music Block Island Ferry and having zero sailing most recently by Fisherman’s Friends hailing 12:30 Don Sineti Anayis Wright Charles W. Morgan from Appalachian fiddling, , and Cajun experience, it was a very steep learning from Cornwall, England. He has extensively SONGS OF SHIP- to Swing and . Adept on , , curve. Bolstered by an incredibly supportive researched the history of the American WRECKS INLAND WATERS WOMEN & THE SONGS OF 1:00 Geoff Kaufman Sara Grey & SEA WHALES guitar, , and button accordion, he team, Barry fell in love with all things Whale Fishery with emphasis on the voyages Brigitte Kloareg Kieron Means & WHALING Craig Edwards & teaches private lessons and has toured and Maritime. Through all that he learned, it was and shipboard life of sailors aboard the The Vox Hunters Joseph Conrad 29 Lee Murdock Katell Kloareg & Denise Kegler Chris Koldewey Mageean & Yuna Léon Jesse Edwards recorded nationally and internationally. Craig the music that accompanied the work that Charles W. Morgan. 1:30 MAN OVERBOARD DRILL Sheridan David Iler David Littlefield plays with several groups in a variety of roots drew his interest most of all. Luckily, he was Joseph Conrad 29 Barry Keenan Lynn Noel Steve Turner music styles. He teaches traditional fiddle given a shot to be a chanteyman himself; he Don Sineti, folksinger, songwriter, part-time chanteyman at historic Mystic Seaport NORTH styles at and serves has now been teaching this amazing art form CHANTEYS AT WORK ON THE ROCKS 2:00 AT SEA ATLANTIC Museum (with one of the most powerful Denise Kegler as moderator for the Sea Music Festival to the general public for a decade and hopes Jesse Edwards CROSSING Steve Turner Walter Askew Don Sineti w/ voices on the Eastern Seaboard!), and long- 3 Ravens Judy Cook & Symposium. to continue to teach for many years to come. Anayis Wright Chris Koldewey Steve Roys Lee Murdock Barry Keenan Matthew Byrne neck, five-string banjo picker, is also an Dan Milner 2:30 The Vox Hunters FUNI Joseph Conrad 29 David Iler Jesse Edwards is a second-generation Denise Kegler has had the privilege of award-winning marine mammal illustrator Lynn Noel chanteyman, the son of Craig Edwards. performing as a chanteyman at Mystic with a number of prestigious exhibitions SEINING DEMO INTERNATIONAL SONGS OF Jesse learned to play and sing from his Seaport Museum for the last ten years. and books to his credit. For more than 20 Geoff Kaufman VOICES WHALES BALLADS 3:00 & WHALING father. He has worked at Mystic Seaport In that time, she has taken on a variety years, he has combined his exhaustive Sara Grey & SONGS OF FISHING FUNI Denise Kegler & Dan Zanes & Judy Cook Museum since he was 13, first as a of duties at the Museum and is currently knowledge of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, Kieron Means Matthew Byrne Mara Anayis Wright David Iler Claudia Eliaza David Littlefield Lynn Noel Jim Mageean & volunteer and later as a staff member, and the Performance and Gallery Programs and porpoises) with his boundless energy 3:30 L. A. Dunton Lee Murdock Rokus Korus Pat Sheridan joined the ranks of the chanteymen in 2012. Supervisor. Denise can also be heard as a to deliver rousing renditions of songs from Bonnie Milner Don Sineti He plays a variety of instruments, including performer and music director in theatrical the days of wooden ships and iron men, WORKING ALOFT guitar and ukulele. Outside his work at the productions around Connecticut and New alongside his own compositions dedicated DANCE WORK- DEMO 4:00 SHOP CONTEMPORARY Geoff Kaufman Museum, Jesse is a freelance photographer England. She studied music-education at to saving whales and the degraded marine Charles W. Morgan Craig Edwards and videographer and is currently creating Central Connecticut State University and was environment. With a booming voice and a Mara Walter Askew DOGWATCH 3 Ravens Matthew Byrne Dan & Bonnie video content for the Williams-Mystic a proud member of the University Singers. hearty laugh, he shares his music, his art, 4:30 Laura Travis Jesse Edwards, Barry David Littlefield Keenan, Steve Turner Milner program. In her spare time, Denise is composing an and his unrestrained love for the whale with The Vox Hunters (4:30 - 5:30) (4:00-5:30) Charles W. Morgan original musical (slowly). of all ages. David Iler has been performing forecastle songs, fore-bitters, and chanteys at Mystic Chris Koldewey was raised by the water Anayis Wright is a traditional folk musician Seaport for the past ten years. He learns on the north shore of Long Island and was with a special interest in sea music and all of his music by ear and prides himself in influenced during his formative years by the shape note singing. She performs as a solo being self-taught on multiple instruments. traditional folk music of John Roberts, Tony vocalist and plays cello and concertina. She David can often be heard playing his tenor Barrand, Jean Ritchie, Jeff Warner, Jeff Davis, came to sea music early, from listening to banjo or his own homemade dulcitar. He and Lou (Louisa Jo) Killen presented there. Stan Rogers and chantey compilations at enjoys singing traditional chanteys at the Later studies in at college a very young age, and attended her first speed the work was done. His favorite songs in Fredonia, N.Y., solidified his interest in the Sea Music Festival at age 14. More recently, to perform are menhaden chanteys and slow presentation, collection, and enjoyment of she attended the Williams-Mystic Maritime ballads that deal with the human aspect of traditional music. The Maritime traditions Studies program and took “chantey skills”— love and loss in the maritime world. came to fruition when, 16 years ago, he studying twice weekly with the Museum’s began work at Mystic Seaport Museum chanteymen. Anayis has performed at Tall Geoff Kaufman initially came to Mystic with the Chantey Department. Returning Ships festivals in Fairport, OH, and Erie, PA, Seaport Museum to perform at the first Sea the traditional songs to a facsimile of their and has worked and sung chanteys aboard Music Festival in 1980 with the quartet Stout jobs, and the wealth of knowledge of the the U.S. Brig Niagara. She has appeared from NYC. He returned to perform chantey folks working at the Museum, as well as multiple times on WICN. With her family duties on occasional weekends over the the wonderful resources available, proved and Norumbega Harmony, she leads shape next four years and was hired full-time in to be a huge step in his development as a note workshops at the New England Folk the Spring of 1984. He has been Foreman of performer. He has never been able to divorce Festival (NEFFA) and has assisted with singing the Chantey Program and Director of the Sea the chanteys from an image of their specific schools at the New Bedford Folk Festival. She Music Festival for 24 of the ensuing 34 years, jobs since. Further contributions, and continues to attend many events such as the as well as touring with the quartet Forebitter fulfillment of lifelong ambitions, were realized Youth Traditional Song weekend, Portsmouth and carrying on an active career of solo when he was able to sail the two Barques, Maritime Folk Festival, and TradMaD Camp in performing across the U.S. and . Picton Castle and Charles W. Morgan, and pursuit of expanding her repertoire. was honored to chantey, at sea, on both. Barry Keenan began playing guitar at 14 years old, quickly finding a love for many David Littlefield has been associated with different styles of music. While attending Mystic Seaport Museum’s music program the University of Connecticut Avery Point, since 1980. He has performed and recorded Barry applied for a job at nearby Mystic with the musical group Forebitter over Seaport Museum. He was immediately put several decades and spent 15 summers on the Demonstration Squad, climbing into performing on the schooner Mystic Whaler. PERFORMER BIOS

Walter Askew. Inspired by a love of history pieces. Her presentation and delivery a few of their favorite contemporary songs. and traditional culture, Walter has worked at combine with her joy of singing to delight all They are particularly interested in the songs museums and historical sites on both coasts, listeners. Judy’s book, A Quiet Corner of the that travel from Great Britain and Ireland to including San Francisco Maritime National War: The Civil War letters of Gilbert and Esther America, and much of their material includes Historical Park. He’s worked onboard tall Claflin, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin 1862-63, American versions that have traveled. Sara ships, including Alma, Hawaiian Chieftain, and which includes letters of her great-great- and Kieron encourage audiences to join with Kalmar Nyckel. He has been featured at sea grandparents, was published by University them on the choruses of many of their songs. music festivals and clubs around the U.S. as of Wisconsin Press in 2013. She also has six well as the U.K., Ireland, , and the CDs of songs and ballads. Her two latest Jim Mageean and Pat Sheridan. Jim is Netherlands. Voted “San Francisco’s Favorite recordings, released in 2018, are Light and an English folk singer based in Tyne and Wear, specializing in sea chanteys, maritime Sea Chantey Band” with his group Salty Walt Shade and Well Met: Songs of the Sea. & The Rattlin’ Ratlines, he regularly performs music, and Geordie Songs from his native northeast. As a child, Jim learned songs from concerts and programs at the San Francisco FUNI. Bára Grímsdóttir is one of Iceland’s Maritime Museum. Whether opening for best traditional singers and is widely his grandmother. In 1963, he went to his punk bands or Burning Man, Walter believes respected in Iceland as a composer. She first and fell in love with the songs, that the “immediacy of enjoyment” for sea started life surrounded by the Icelandic folk particularly the sea chanteys sung there music is unique and takes special pleasure in music of her parents and grandparents on by Lou Killen, Johnny Handle, and others. putting old music in front of new people at an the family farm, Grímstunga, in the north of In 1964, at a Yorkshire festival, he met Stan array of unusual venues and special events Iceland. Bára has a special interest in the old Hugill, who became his life-long friend and around the Bay Area. rímur and kvæðalög styles of Icelandic folk mentor. Jim and his singing partner of 35 music, but she also sings in other traditional years, Johnny Collins, sang at festivals and Matthew Byrne. Born into a family of styles, both secular and religious. She has concerts throughout Europe and North Newfoundland music makers, Matthew’s performed with Steindór Andersen, toured America until Johnny passed away. Jim has repertoire is heavily influenced by his musical in Europe and North America with Sigurður been singing with The Keelers since 1986, upbringing and the weaving of a great story Rúnar Jónssonn and Njáll Sigurðsson, sings in duos with Graeme Knights from with a beautiful melody. He supports this and was a founding member of the group London, Pat Sheridan from Cork, and in the with powerful vocals, polished “Embla.” Chris Foster started singing folk trio, JIB, with Barrie and Ingrid Temple. Pat guitar work, and a presence that fills the songs in his native southwest England. developed an early interest in folk songs, room. His repertoire transcends time and He was recently described as “one of the began collecting during the great folk revival place, and his live performance reminds finest singers and most thoughtful inventive of the late 1960s, and started singing folk us how satisfying traditional songs can be guitar accompanists of English folk songs, songs with guitar in some of Dublin’s bars. when stripped down to their basic elements. meriting status.” For 40 years he has In 1970, he joined a Dublin acapella group Matthew’s music has traveled well beyond toured throughout the U.K., Europe, Canada, called Garland, and both his repertoire and the rugged shores of his Newfoundland and the U.S., recorded six solo , and style changed forever. Garland still sings home since his 2010 debut , Ballads. worked on many collaborative projects. together with an eclectic mix of songs of hunting, love, love and war, love and Touring as both a solo artist and as a singer Chris’s solo CD Outsiders was a runner-up in seafaring, mining, farming, and of course, with The Dardanelles, he has graced major the fRoots magazine poll of 300 critics and sea chanteys. Pat sang with several other festival stages worldwide. With his second broadcasters for the best Folk/ groups that have appeared at Mystic Seaport album, Hearts Heroes, receiving Traditional CD of 2008. Since meeting Bára in 2000, he Museum, including the Press Gang, another Recording of the Year at the 2015 Canadian has become deeply interested in Icelandic Dublin acapella group, and Liam Clancy. Pat Folk Music Awards, he has established folk music and learned to play the traditional and Jim met at a Maritime Festival in France himself as one of Canada’s most authentic Icelandic and fidla (fiðla) as well as in 1999, and both sang with Johnny Collins at and vital traditional voices. Matthew released developing and adapting his innovative guitar many European Festivals. Pat and Jim have his highly anticipated third album, Horizon style to the modal melodies of Icelandic recorded an album called Hard Aground. Lines, in August 2017. This newest collection folk music. of traditional material explores a repertoire Mara and Rokus Korus. Mara brings together of songs from both sides of the Atlantic and Sara Grey and Kieron Means. Sara is a three strong performers from : fiddler continues Matthew’s journey through his own treasured American singer, banjo player, and Yuna Léon, playing tunes from the Breton unique musical lineage. song collector. She’s immersed in the song traditions of both sides of the Atlantic and and Irish traditions with equal ease, and powerful mother and daughter duo, Brigitte Judy Cook was born in Northern Virginia and has performed throughout the U.K., Europe, and Katell Kloareg, who have sung together has lived all her life in the greater Washington, North America, and for the past 50 for more than 20 years and share a large D.C., area. She grew up with singing from both years; she has also collaborated with Tom repertoire of Breton, French, English, and parents and a love for music. Judy began Spiers on a project of songs that migrated Welsh songs with forays into other traditions. performing professionally in the early 1990s. across the Atlantic. Kieron is a singer and Mara will present lively singing for the dancing In addition to programs and festivals from guitarist of great merit. He was born in the tradition of Brittany along with ballads and the Midwest to New England, she has toured U.S. and grew up in the U.K. with the music songs focusing on women and shipwrecks. annually in the U.K. and U.S. since 1998. of both traditions. A fine performer of Mara has performed at the Cancale and Judy specializes in programs with historical traditional and contemporary songs, Kieron Paimpol maritime festivals in Brittany, at interests and presents songs from a varied has toured in the U.S. and the U.K. and the Pentreffest dance festival in Wales, and repertoire woven together with historical often joins his mother, Sara. Together, they at the Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport details, quotations, letters from her own perform a wide range of American traditions, Museum and TradMaD Camp in America. ancestors, and images. Powerful narrative including old-time songs and ballads from Rokus Korus is about two friends who shared songs dovetail effortlessly with sentimental the Appalachians, Ozarks, New England, and their singing traditions and passed the songs Victorian tales and sprinklings of whimsical the West, blues and gospel music, as well as on to their daughters. Compelling duo Brigitte & Katell Kloareg met mighty Trinidadian singer traditional Icelandic in song has been was asked, “What was the best gig you and dancer Mary-Anne Roberts in Cardiff and featured in the Smithsonian “ in the ever saw?,” and answered, “The best spot started singing together in the 1990s. Mary- New World” exhibit at the Canadian Museum I’ve seen recently was Steve Turner – total Anne’s daughter, Aisling, joined the initial trio of Civilization, at the Dartmouth International intensive musical focus and a vast serious for an eclectic mix of songs in English, Breton, Archaeology Conference, in Viking Heritage repertoire.” Welsh, French, and Creole. Magazine, and aboard cruise ships to Iceland and Newfoundland. Lynn’s series, A Woman’s The Vox Hunters (Armand Aromin and Dan Milner and his elder brother Liam began Way: The First Millennium of Adventurous Benedict Gagliardi) are seekers and singers adding sea songs to their family repertoire of Women, interprets real-life Vikings, of old songs, tireless multi-instrumentalists, Irish ballads after sailing to New York aboard voyageurs, pirates, and other traditional and a driving force of traditional folk music in the Queen Elizabeth in 1961. A decade later women’s roles. Rhode Island. The duo is known to instigate they were singing at South Street Seaport singing and music-making at any opportunity with David Jones, Charlie O’Hegarty, and 3 Ravens. Some things are just meant to and delight in the community that forms the X-Seamen. For ten years beginning in be. When Lui, Donna, and Max combined around local music events. With a pair of 1975, Dan was the organizer of Manhattan’s their voices for a performance project with oft-harmonizing voices accompanied by renowned Eagle Tavern folk venue. His renowned poet Jane Yolen, the 3 Ravens fiddle, free-reeds, and tenor guitar, The Vox collection of 150 Irish and British folksongs, trio was born. Their rich voices blend into Hunters present an exciting and eclectic The Bonnie Bunch of Roses, appeared in harmony while telling stories that draw repertoire of traditional folk songs, driving 1983, followed by the classic 1997 CD, Irish from life and . 3 Ravens guide you dance tunes, percussive footwork, and other Ballads & Songs of the Sea, recorded with on vocal and journeys that musical varia. Their songs are primarily from Lou Killen, Mick Moloney, and other friends. often end with the singing along American and British traditions, although their Smithsonian Folkways issued Irish Pirate to beloved standards. Lui Collins earned continuing research into old local music has Ballads (twice-nominated for Indie Awards) international acclaim for her Philo and yielded an ever-increasing focus on songs in 2009 and Civil War Naval Songs with Jeff Green Linnet recordings and her intimate and tunes from their home state, Rhode Davis and David Coffin in 2011. A geography concerts. Along with creating playful four- Island. Armand and Benedict are touted as professor at St. John’s University, he also string arrangements of original songs, strong tradition-bearers in their generation, teaches singing at summer music camps and Lui has been exploring chords in old and they treat the music as a communal has been a presenter at three Music of the American standards and bossa nova on good more than a profession. Their genuine Sea Symposiums. Dan occasionally performs tenor ukulele. Donna Hébert is a cultural affinity for traditional folk music is evident in with Robbie O’Connell and often with his wife treasure, a Franco-American fiddler, and the emotion they draw from it. Whether in Bonnie Milner of The Johnson Girls. a composer three-times documented in a lamp-lit living room, on a festival stage, or Smithsonian collections. Recognized in at a Rhode Island pub sing, The Vox Hunters Lee Murdock is an accomplished 2009 for “outstanding artistic achievement” offer an all-natural connection to the living instrumentalist on the six- and twelve-string by Governor Deval Patrick, tradition of folk music. Their self-titled first guitars, combining , Irish, blues, and Donna also teaches fiddle and performance CD was released in 2017. folk styles with his flair for in at Smith and Amherst Colleges. Donna songs. His musical influences span fifteen founded and directs yearly participatory Dan Zanes and Claudia Eliaza. Dan is a generations, from 17th-century Turlough children’s at the Old Songs Grammy Award winner who occupies a O’Carolan compositions to Scott Joplin piano and Philadelphia Folk festivals. Max Cohen’s unique place in American music: where rags, to 21st-century ballads. His focus on natural humility hides an amazing talent. sea chanteys, English Music hall, play party Great Lakes music began as a simple interest An accomplished guitarist, Max balances songs, the of early rock-n-roll, soul, and in finding the folk songs from his own local sensitivity with driving rhythmic power. His North American and West Indian folk . “I sort of ‘fell in’ to the Great Lakes partnership with Lui Collins, poet Jane Yolen, collide. For the past 15 years, he toured the by accident,” says Murdock, “but once I and Donna Hébert particularly showcases world with his band, Dan Zanes and Friends, started performing songs about the Great Max’s guitar as he weaves poems and tunes sharing handmade 21st-century social Lakes, my audiences kept asking for more. together seamlessly. music with enthusiastic crowds of children And the stories and songs just keep coming.” and children sympathizers. In 2017, Dan Murdock has released 21 LPs and CDs to date Steve Turner is known as a pioneer of and his fiancée Claudia, a Haitian-American and maintains a busy international touring highly sophisticated English concertina jazz vocalist/music therapist, premiered schedule. song accompaniments, stretching the Night Train 57: A Sensory Friendly Folk boundaries of traditional forms with one Opera at The Kennedy Center. Claudia is an Lynn Noel has a voice of striking clarity and of the best voices in the business. A multi- exuberant Haitian-American songstress with power and a captivating storyteller’s style instrumentalist, Steve accompanies himself a rich voice that captivates her audience that brings history to life. She is a Country on the cittern and plays mandolin and banjo. at large. Having performed at Carnegie Dance and Song Society (CDSS) local He returned to performing in folk clubs and Hall, Claudia has sung in other prestigious for chanteys and pub sings in New England, festivals in 2005. Steve’s fifth album, The venues including the Jazz Philharmonic Hall a harmony singer with a repertoire from Whirligig of Time, was long-listed for the BBC in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Berklee medieval to music hall, and an internationally folk awards in 2008. His sixth album, Rim of Performance Center. Dan and Claudia known heritage interpreter, author, and the Wheel, was released in spring 2012 and perform sea songs from North America and the island of Haiti. The audience is invited to living history professional. Lynn’s concert received reviews; David Kidman in Folk sing and dance along to the sound of voices, series, Crosscurrents: Bluewater and Roundabout called it “sheer genius, a sure guitar, flute, harmonica, and trombone Whitewater Music, has received awards of contender for one of my folk albums of 2012.” in what might be called a casual, and excellence from the International Union Steve was featured on the Mike Harding subversively educational, interactive party for the Conservation of Nature and the Show Radio 2 and Late Junction Radio 3 and atmosphere. The music, based in a variety of Canadian Parks Service. Lynn appears this in a full-page article in fRoots in July 2012. year at the Sea Music Festival as “Gudrid folk traditions, is homespun, sophisticated, Steve’s seventh album, Spirit of the Game, and artful. the Wanderer: First Viking Woman in the was released in January 2016. In the August/ New World,” a role developed for L’Anse September 2014 edition of fRoots, Nancy aux Meadows National Historic Site in Kerr in her “Rocket Launcher” interview Newfoundland. This first-person retelling of WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS, AND SPECIAL EVENTS

Ballads (Greenmanville Church, Saturday 12:00 & 3:00, Haiti and the Sea - Children’s workshop (Family Stage Sunday 11:00 & 2:00) at the Playscapes, Sunday 1:00) The practice of telling stories through song thrived at sea and In this interactive workshop for children and families, Haitian- among shore dwellers enthralled by the beauty and grace of American vocalist Claudia Eliaza and Dan Zanes will lead the ships and the wonders and terrors of the sea. Sailors sang audience through several folk songs from the island of Haiti. ballads on many themes, nautical and otherwise, while ballads There will be singing and dancing as Claudia leads people to a on nautical themes were popular among people who never saw greater understanding of Haiti’s rich musical culture and its deep the ocean. Come and lose yourself in this magical storytelling connection to the sea. They will be joined by Mary Anne Roberts form. from Trinidad for some added Caribbean flavor.

Chanteys at Work (Charles W. Morgan, Saturday 12:00, Instruments At Sea (Performance Stage, Sunday 12:00) Sunday 1:00; Joseph Conrad, Saturday 2:00, Sunday 2:00) A good musician was a valued shipmate in the age of sail, helping Mystic Seaport Museum is one of the few places where one can sailors enliven any idle hours they might have and perhaps hear sea chanteys in the appropriate context. This exciting event performing for officers and passengers as well. Compact size will show how chanteys are used in the strenuous work required and durability affected what instruments might come along, but to run sailing ships. Performers will work along with the Museum’s come along they did, and you’ll hear a fine collection of them special demonstration squad. here, with particular notes from Brittany, France, England, and New England. Children’s Parade (Meet at Family Stage at the P.R. Mallory Building, Sunday 2:45) International Voices (Village Green, Saturday 3:00) This moveable Foo Foo band will take music around the Museum In our Anglocentric culture we don’t often get a chance to hear grounds. While we march, add your music to the lively sounds of the rich textures of language that have and still do make up fife, drum, and other instruments played by festival performers. our world. This year we’ll be treated to intriguing traditions from Brittany, Iceland, and more. Children’s Shows (Family Stage at the P.R. Mallory Building, Irish Influence (Greenmanville Church, Sunday 1:00) Saturday 1:00-3:00, Sunday 12:00-2:00) The island nation of Ireland has generated an incredible wealth Some of our finest performers will combine music, stories, of music, including an inestimable contribution to maritime song. participation, instrument-making, history, natural science, and Come sample some treasured favorites of a stellar crew of this FUN! This is the place for children and families who want to do year’s performers. more than sit and listen. This year we are especially pleased to have Dan Zanes and Claudia Eliaza joining us. Please note their special workshop “Haiti and the Sea” on Sunday. And look for North (Performance Stage, Saturday 2:00) some fascinating fun with FUNI from Iceland on Sunday as well. The islands of Iceland and Newfoundland in the North Atlantic are rich with song, from Newfoundland’s thriving folk scene to ancient Icelandic rímur ballads and songs of the . A Contemporary Sea Songs (Village Green, Saturday 4:00) common and constant is songs about fish, and no fish. At a past festival, song collector and author William Main Chris and Bara, Matthew, and Lynn will swap old favorites and Doerflinger went from workshop to workshop collecting rare finds in Icelandic and Newfoundland English. contemporary songs. Today’s contemporary songs may be tomorrow’s traditional and public domain music. This weekend you can hear some of the finest singers and writers of Northeast Traditions (Village Green, Sunday 1:00) contemporary maritime songs anywhere. Regions, and even cultures within one region, have unique ways of expressing themselves. This year we explore the East coast from Mystic to Newfoundland. Dance Workshop (Boatshed, Saturday 4:00 - 5:30) At 4:00 we’ll have demonstrations and instruction with Craig Edwards, Mara, 3 Ravens, and The Vox Hunters with some step On The Rocks (Village Green, Saturday 2:00) dancing from Laura Travis. There are lots of possible interpretations of being “on the rocks.” This will be an intriguing exploration of the theme! Dogwatch! Fo’c’s’le Songs (Charles W. Morgan, Saturday 4:30; Plowing Sea and Shore (Performance Stage, Sunday 11:00) Village Green, Sunday 12:00) The ocean and the fertile field often serve as for Here is a chance to sample the variety of songs, other than each other. Legend has it that a prophetic old Nantucketer, chanteys, that sailors sang for their own amusement. These gazing at a pod of whales swimming off the shore in the 1600s, songs speak of many experiences, both at sea and ashore, and murmured, “There are the fields our grandchildren will plow.” help us appreciate the lives of seamen in ways that no history Sailors depicted farmers as dull homebodies in their songs, but book can. also writhed in jealous agony at the thought that those same farmers could go courting their girls while Tar “plowed the Foo Foo Band (Family Stage at the Playscapes, raging main.” Songs about sailors, farmers, courtship happy and Sunday, 2:00) unhappy, and related topics will be heard in this workshop. The Foo Foo band was the name for the impromptu music made by sailors from anything that could make noise. We’ll have materials ready, so come create instruments for the Children’s Parade at 2:45. Round Robin (Joseph Conrad, Sunday 12:00) Songs of Whales and Whaling (Performance Stage, Geoff Kaufman, Bonnie Milner, and this Spring’s Mystic Seaport Saturday 1:00 & 3:00) Museum Chantey Class lead a spirited sing-around of chanteys. Whalemen chronicled their lives, loves, work, play, and dreams thoroughly in song and wrote down much of this material in Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea (Joseph Conrad, journals and diaries. You’ll hear their ballads, chanteys, and songs Saturday 1:00, Sunday 11:00) here, but with changing times and sensibilities, the whales have “The stormy winds do blow.” Storms at sea have gripped the gained a voice as well. Be listening. human from our earliest days of venturing upon the water and have generated some of our finest sea songs and Stan Rogers Celebration (Village Green, Sunday 11:00) . We’ll explore the turbulent side of that “wine dark sea” in It has been thirty-five years since the untimely death of Stan collaboration with a man overboard drill by the Mystic Seaport Rogers. His timeless songs still resonate throughout North America Museum special demonstration squad. and beyond. Stan explored the lives of every-day Canadians employed in the maritime trades, gas, oil, and coal, and the vast Songs of Fishing w/ Seining Songs Demonstration sprawling fields of farmland. He sang of love lost, love won, and (L.A. Dunton, Saturday 3:00) the migration of friends to the warmer climes of the southwestern America’s greatest fishing port of the 19th century, Gloucester, MA, United States. Stan left us a large body of self-composed music sometimes lost more than 200 men a year in the fisheries. Fishing and wonderful interpretations and arrangements of traditional still has one of the highest death rates of any occupation in the songs. Never one to shy away from controversy, through song this Unites States. The songs of this trade commemorate the courage big man championed the challenges and struggles of ordinary and grief of fishing communities, while also showing flashes of the men and women. This workshop celebrates the life, legacy, and wry humor and matter-of-fact attitude that often sustained them. songs of Stan Rogers. As part of this workshop, you’ll get to hear a couple of seining songs, rhythmic songs used by fishermen to haul nets for schools Sunday Morning Hymn Sing (Greenmanville Church, Sunday 9:30) of fish, as members of our Mystic Seaport Museum chantey staff A favorite event for early risers on Sunday. Led this year by perform them in an on-the-water demonstration followed by Judy Cook, The Heavenly Twins, and Stephen Sanfilippo. Matthew Byrne singing songs from Newfoundand. Supernatural at Sea: Ghost Ships, Selkies, and Specters Songs of Immigration (Village Green, Sunday 2:00) (Greenmanville Church, Saturday 2:00) Millions of people by choice or through need have left Haunted ships and lighthouses, phantom sailors, and supernatural surroundings to embark on the unknown, facing hardships, creatures at sea have been chronicled in songs and ballads for rewards, and disappointments. Their songs, and those of sailors centuries all around the globe. This workshop will feature a small on the ships that carried them, provide a window into a great sampling, both traditional and contemporary, of these spine- human drama. tingling tales set to music.

Songs of Inland Waters (Village Green, Saturday 1:00) Women and the Sea (Greenmanville Church, Saturday 1:00; An important part of our maritime history has taken place and still Sunday 12:00) occurs on our rivers, canals, and lakes. A rich canon of music and Nowadays women can be found in every imaginable role in the verse has come from our inland water trades. You’ll hear a fine maritime world, from deckhand to captain. Women also went to sampling in these sessions. sea in earlier times in a variety of ways—as wives of whaling and merchant captains, as passengers, disguised as men serving Songs of Protest and Injustice as foremast hands, and even as pirates. On shore, women held (Performance Stage, Sunday 1:00) families, businesses, and communities together while their Throughout history song has provided a third-party (or -person) husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons were at sea for weeks, voice for people affected by social, political, and religious injustice. months, or years. These roles were all commemorated in song. Balladeer Lou Killen interpreted songs of hardship and the Come and hear a sampling of women’s views of the sea. complaint of sailors, miners, and factory workers swept up into a current wrought by the British industrial revolution. Through song Traditions (Performance Stage, Sunday 2:00) became a leading voice for those disenfranchised Chanteys are perhaps the most widely known and best- by the politics of war, obstructed civil rights, and unethical documented examples of the ancient practice of singing at work. environmental practices. From “Sailor’s Rights and Free Trade” The tradition of chanteying sprang from earlier worksong forms to “Hell No We Won’t Go,” this workshop will explore historic and and influenced others as changing technology gave rise to new contemporary songs of protest and injustice. occupations. Explore some of these fascinating connections with us in this session.

If you have enjoyed the music you’ve heard at the Sea Music Festival and would like to further support these performers, please use the following web links to purchase recordings:

Walter Askew: www.SaltyWalt.net Dan Milner: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/danmilner Matthew Byrne: www.matthewbyrne.net Lee Murdock: www.LeeMurdock.com/works Judy Cook: www.judycook.net Lynn Noel: www.facebook.com/lynnoelmusic FUNI: https://funi.bandcamp.com 3 Ravens: www.the3ravens.com Sara Grey & Kieron Means: www.saragrey.net Steve Turner: www.steve-turner.co.uk Jim Mageean & Pat Sheridan: The Vox Hunters: https://thevoxhunters.bandcamp.com www.discogs.com/artist/1773178-Jim-Mageean Dan Zanes & Claudia Eliaza: https://danzanes.bandcamp.com Mara & Rokus Korus: www.facebook.com/band.mara MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM | 75 GREENMANVILLE AVENUE, MYSTIC, CT 06355 | WWW.MYSTICSEAPORT.ORG | 860.572.0711