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Before the Mast Featured
Before the Mast is an a cappela group of shanty singers consisting of Bruce Noble, Greg Marquis, Rick Clark, Gary Caines, Dale Peters, Bob Burgess, Bryce Neill, Roland D'Abadie and Paul-Emile Chiasson.
Dan Zanes and Festival Five Folk Featured
Dan Zanes, formerly of the legendary band, the Del Fuegos, produces and performs music for families.
Glenn Yarbrough / Shaw Brothers Featured
With over seventy-five albums to his credit, including both his chart-topping stint as the Limeliters lead tenor, and his marathon solo career, Glenn Yarbrough's voice has graced millions of listeners lives.
Gordon Bok Featured
Gordon Bok grew up around the boatyards of Camden, Maine, and worked on many different boats from fishing boats to passenger schooners to yachts, on his own coast and others. At a time when folk music was experiencing a great revival, he was a leader in preserving, collecting, creating and sharing a wide variety of rich and intensely beautiful songs of both land and sea.
Holdstock & MacLeod Featured
Still enthusiastically performing together after twenty-five years, Dick Holdstock and Allan MacLeod continue to perform authentic renditions of the songs of their homelands, the British Isles.
Lee Murdock Featured
Lee Murdock's music is grounded in the work song tradition, from the rugged days of lumberjacks and wooden sailing schooners. Murdock comes alongside with ballads of contemporary commerce and revelry in the grand folk style. Murdock's fans have discovered a sweetwater treasure in his songs about the Great Lakes, finding drama and inspiration in the lives of sailors and fishermen, lighthouse keepers, ghosts, shipwrecks, outlaws and everyday heroes ...
Roger McGuinn Featured
Roger McGuinn, former leader of The Byrds and 1991 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, displays his acoustic roots on Grammy-nominated CDs of classic folk songs from the Folk Den, including many maritime songs.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Featured
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has produced some of the most important folk music recordings in the modern history of music scholarship.
Tom Kastle Featured
Tom Kastle is a singer, songwriter, tall ship captain, and teller of tales based in the Great Lakes who has traveled the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and the Pacific.
97th Regimental String Band
The 97th Regimental String Band recreates an actual string band of the Civil War era, singing a wide variety of traditional American songs in authentic, living history style.
Alison Lee Freeman
Alison Lee Freeman is a singer/songwriter and chantey singer with a voice easily heard over gale force winds. She is known for her captivating harmonies and sense of humor. In performance, the vivacious balladeer sings a cappella or accompanies herself on guitar.
Andrew Heinrich
Irish folk musician and modern singer, Andrew Heinrich delights and enchants with his original compositions and modern covers alike.
Andy Duinker & Donna Rhodenizer
Andy Duinker performs roots/traditional, folk and maritime-flavored songs, songs that have stood the test of time, standard favorites, and his own original songs. His four-octave range is utilized to its maximum, with both rich bass solos and lyrical tenor melodies handled with ease and fluidity. Donna Rhodenizer is a singer/songwriter with strong roots in the Canadian maritimes.
Anne Roos
Anne Roos is a many-faceted, experienced performer who excels as a soloist in concert, as well as with her ensemble, selecting from a wide range of choices available from her music list. She is in great demand for corporate and private events and continues to be a favorite to play for weddings and receptions.
Atlantic Crossing
For about 15 years, the Vermont band Atlantic Crossing has been thrilling concert audiences and contra-dancers with traditional songs and acoustic instrumental music from New England - music which has deep Celtic roots in the British Isles and in French & Maritime Canada - together with original compositions inspired by these traditions.
Barbary Ghosts, The
Three castaways found themselves awash on the shores of the San Francisco. With no money or food, they wandered about singing songs of love, lust, mutiny, hardship and death on the high seas. The rest is history.
Bill Dempsey
Bill Dempsey began his career as a trombonist studying classical music and jazz. During the early 1960s he became interested in folk music. Over the years, Bill has continued to learn new instruments and new kinds of music while staying close to the folk and traditional music he loves. Some know Bill as the Shanty Man on the brig Pilgrim in Dana Point, California.
Bill Pere
Originally from New York City, Bill is one of today's most sought-after songwriting mentors, workshop presenters, and song critiquers. He travels coast to coast and is committed to helping artists create the best possible songs and achieve their goals.
Bill Rients and Terry Hollembaek
A musical romp through the days of tall wooden ships, seafarers of the Caribbean, Navy men, pirates, buccaneers and marooners. The hopes they had and the women they dreamed of. Great new tunes, terrific performances, wonderful lyrics and fine production!
Billy Bones Sayles
Billy Bones has performed for U.S. Navy conventions on the mainland, at the Maui County Fair, many years at the Seattle Folklife Festival, boat shows, and in dark musty corners of waterfront bars on mini tours in four countries.