ONGOING EXHIBIT
Good Work, Sister
Through Oct. 18, 2009
510 Congress Street
Portland Harbor Museum's Also Save the Date: Sept. 27, 2008
Maritime Music Festival Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival
Saturday, August 2, 2008 www.newenglandfolknetwork.org/pmff
10am-4pm ALL EVENTS ARE FREE!
Spring Point in South Portland
(Alternate rain venue: South Portland High School)
Admission FREE
Join us to celebrate the music of our seafaring heritage
For a printable flier, click here.
Featuring performances by:
Gordon Bok
Castlebay
Castlebay has been performing along the eastern seaboard and in Great Britain for over twenty years. They were performers at the International Festival of the Sea five times in England and have played many maritime festivals in the US as well. Julia Lane is an award winning Celtic harper and one of the world's foremost proponents of maritime music on the harp. Fred Gosbee is known for his historical and humorous ballads. He plays the 12-string guitar, fiddle, and whistle. Castlebay has recorded over 25 albums, including a six volume series of instrumental music, two CDs of original maritime songs and a live concert recording. www.castlebay.net
Kendall Morse
Kendall was introduced to folk music by his friend Gordon Bok, who also encouraged him to make his debut performing folk songs. He is well known as a Maine humorist and folk singer and also as part of the Morse Brothers bluegrass band, with his brothers, Erlon and Les. He has issued three CDs, Lights Along the Shore, Seagulls and Summer People and Beginner's Luck. Unfortunately, Kendall was hit with cancer of the vocal chord back in 2002, with a reoccurence in 2004, which necessitated the removal of part of the chord. This has prevented him from continuing as an entertainer, to date, he is still having treatment to try and regain his voice. In 2006, he traveled to California for a gig with the late Utah Phillips - two of the world's most consummate storytellers on stage together for the first, and only, time. (DVD available from jacquiclark40@hotmail.com)
David Jones
David Coffin
Marc Bernier
Marc Bernier is a Professional Chef, Musician, and Sailor with a diverse musical and professional background. No stranger to Sea Music audiences he has spent over 5 years as a Mystic Seaport Chanteyman. He has worked as a musician and educator for the Clearwater program on the Hudson River, and has sailed as cook, deck hand, and entertainer on numerous traditional sailing vessels from the coast of Maine to Chesapeake Bay. When accompanying himself on songs he is equally at home with Guitar, Mandolin, and Tenor Banjo. Marc has also been active in Connecticut’s Fife & Drum community since his teenage years, when he began playing in various traditional and progressive ensembles. www.marcbernier.com
Roll 'n Go
Roll & Go is a Maine group who love to sing sea shanties and other songs of the sea. Singing mostly unaccompanied, they combine strong solo work with tight harmonies on the refrain and chorus. Some songs are backed up by banjo, guitar, concertina, or pennywhistle. Over the past fifteen years, their spirited performances have earned them a growing reputation among festival and concert goers in Maine and the rest of New England. The group has been featured at the Mystic Sea Music Festival, the Great Schooner Race in Penobscot Bay, the Maine Festival, the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, at many tall-ship special events and community concerts, and, several times since 2001, at the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival. In 2006, they released their second CD, Roll & Go: Rolling Down to Sailortown. www.rollandgoseasongs.com
Barry Finn
Tom Hall and Linn Schulz
New Hampshire native Tom Hall has been collecting, researching, and singing folk songs for over 40 years. Drawing deep from the vast well of English, Scottish and Irish songs, he has pulled more than a few pails of nautical songs from these and other lands. His body of song includes shanty work songs and foc’sle ballads sung by sailors to while away their few leisure hours. Tom is the chief organizer behind the Great Bay Company, and for the past two decades, has been the host of the Press Room’s Friday evening Anglo-Celtic traditional music session.
Linn Schulz has been performing with Tom for over 15 years. Linn, originally from the Midwest, comes from a musical family, and grew up with an eclectic mix of tunes and songs. In the mid 80s, she began to devote herself more seriously to traditional songs and ballads. With Tom, Linn forms part of the core of the Press Room trad sessions every Friday night. Tom and Linn have worked with the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival since its inception, as volunteers, performers, and now producers of the fest.
Fivebitters
Fivebitters is an offshoot of Three Sheets, a Gloucester (MA) chantey/sea music group. Many of the crew have years of established song and sea history to offer and they roar up a storm of song and good cheer wherever they go. Audiences in ports and towns all over the Northeast coast have enjoyed the power vocals and terrific harmonies of Three Sheets — and the performers have a great time, too... as will be seen! The group can be heard every Tuesday evening as they host the popular shanty sessions at Cameron's Restaurant in Gloucester.
The singers and players who make it all possible include: Peter and Joanne Souza, Rose Sheehan, David and Colin De La Barre. www.schooner-adventure.org
Micca Patterson
Micca Patterson has been around the UK Folk Scene since the 1960s and has
been performing for about 20 years. He has served in the British
Merchant Navy which gave rise to an interest in sea songs. He has always
written poetry but turned to songwriting at the time he started singing,
since he doesn't read or write music (yet) he sometimes collaborates with
others to produce a song, or in the timehonoured tradition of Folk music "borrows" tunes. He is a Scientist with a background in Chemistry,works in
Education, and lives in London England but visits the US regularly
including an almost annual visit(for the last 8-9 years) to the Press Room
and the FSGW Getaway where he conducts workshops on song writing and
parodies.
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