"Seán Dagher is an active performer, arranger, and composer of music from various folk and classical music traditions: Celtic, Baroque, Medieval, Arabic, French-Canadian, and Maritime. He is a member of Skye Consort and is the co-artistic director of La Nef. Seán sings and plays Irish bouzouki, mandolin, oud, and banjo."
"Stan Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter who sang traditional-sounding songs frequently inspired by Canadian history and the working people's daily lives, especially from the fishing villages of the Maritime provinces and, later, the farms of the Canadian prairies and Great Lakes. He died in a fire aboard Air Canada Flight 797, grounded at the Greater Cincinnati Airport, at the age of 33."
"Bound together by lifelong friendship and shared experience for more than 25 years the Fisherman’s Friends have met on the Platt (harbour) in their native Port Isaac to raise money for charity, singing the traditional songs of the sea handed down to them by their forefathers."
"The Dreadnoughts started out in 2006 with a single goal: to blend traditional European folk music with gut-crunching street punk. They soon found themselves singing traditional sea shanties like Roll the Woodpile Down and Eliza Lee in pubs and clubs all over their native Vancouver, Canada. Since then, they’ve spent 20 years touring the world, perfecting this strange cocktail of musical styles, while always trying to preserve the beauty and intricacy of the folk genres they draw from. They’ve now decided to return to their roots and form an acoustic version of the band, focusing on the old genre that started them down this long path in the first place: the nautical song."
"The Longest Johns are a Bristol based, a capella folk music band, born out of a mutual love of traditional folk songs and shanties. They rock maritime songs alongside the more unusual and less traditional folk tunes."
Pirates before pirates were cool. The Jolly Rogers were born as the Earth still cooled, waaaay back in 1991. Bringing maritime music, sea shanties, drinking and bawdy songs to audiences before pirates were all the rage, they’ve been a main stage act at venues across America and Europe.
"The sea shanty tradition of Newfoundland is fused with the spirit and energy of contemporary rock and popular music by Great Big Sea. Their hard-driving approach has not only made them popular in their homeland, where they've been nominated for four Juno Awards, but has brought them growing recognition throughout North America and Europe. The inspiration for Great Big Sea was sparked during informal, kitchen-party jam sessions in the Newfoundland fishing village of Petty Harbor."
"The a cappella quartet met in 2010 while studying on the folk and traditional music degree course at Newcastle University. An acclaimed live act, they have gone on to win over many an audience in the UK and Europe. Equally, outside of the band, they have been hugely successful on the folk circuit, Alex as part of a duo with Nicola Beazley, Kate as part of the band Night Fall, Rosie with Speldosa, and Will in Tyne Signature and as a duo. Recorded as a start-to-finish album at the studio at Sunbeams in the Lake District, it was recorded as a final journey."
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"Sail North is a Celtic Shanty-Pop music project founded by an anonymous artist known as "The Captain." The project began in late 2023 and blends traditional sea shanty influences with contemporary pop elements. Sail North gained attention through viral releases such as, “The Tale of the Shadow” and “Bones,” which together have received millions of views on YouTube and social media. The artist maintains anonymity by performing in a mask and refers to fans collectively as The Crew. Sail North released the Echoes from the Helm EP in 2025, along with notable singles, "Tales of Luria" and "Overboard," the same year."
"Captivating audiences with their fabulous harmonies and amusing banter since the year 2001, KIMBER’S MEN have performed at folk and shanty festivals throughout the length and breadth of the UK from Portsoy in the North to Jersey in the South and from Liverpool to Harwich in the West and East."
"The original genesis of the Roaring Trowmen was a result of two men, Jim and Bryn (who had never met) responding to a post on a forum about shanties. They decided to meet up in a pub and shout a few of the songs they had been discussing. There followed several evenings getting funny looks and unexpected laughs singing shanties in the Lansdown Pub in Clifton, Bristol.
In the following months they invited friends along and occasionally dragging strangers into their world of music. And so there formed the Bristol Shanty Collective. But a few wanted to take things a little further, to actually start performing, writing our own songs and taking the rich history of this music seriously. So six of us separated and formed 'the Roaring Trowmen'. The name comes from the trowmen who used to pilot the flat bottomed barges that carried cargo up the Severn. They were known as a fairly rambunctious lot. Hard drinking, fighting, singing, and extreme skill in piloting and sailing were their hallmarks, so we decided it would be a decent fit for us!"
"Former sailboat shipmate Haakon Steinar Vatle founded the Storm Weather Shanty Choir after sailing the seas on the 3-masted steel bark “Statsraad Lehmkuhl”. Haakon Steinar Vatle returned to the island Stord at the western coast of Norway, and gathered a bunch of long-haired rockers, and the rest is history, as they say. The choir is known as a colorful element in both the folk music communities and in more rock-oriented music-scenes alike, and their fun and engaging shows are a definitive must-see for all music-lovers."
"Baltimore's most bilious, barnacle-encrusted band of bilge-rats, a caterwauling crew of crafty cutthroats, and a scurvy swarm of salty sea weasels and tentacles.
Pirates for Sail are highly trained musicians and vocalists who are experts in sea shanties, Irish drinking tunes, and maritime ballads, but we will sing just about anything that strikes our fancy. With but a well placed song we can rouse your spirits, calm your soul, or bring tears to your eyes with a sailor's lament."
"The Real McKenzies is a Canadian Celtic punk band founded in 1992 and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They are considered the founders of the Canadian Celtic punk movement, and were one of the first Celtic punk bands, albeit 10 years after The Pogues. Founding member Paul McKenzie has been the only continuous member of the band since its inception."
"Derina Harvey leads the award-winning Celtic Rock group, the Derina Harvey Band (dHb). With a show that offers a fresh take on traditional folk songs as well as a few originals, Derina’s vibrant personality takes center stage with humour, storytelling, and, of course, her powerful vocals. That voice earned her a 2025 Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for “Contemporary Singer of the Year”. dHb has been likened to a “rockier” version of Canada’s Great Big Sea, if fronted by Adele. The group took home the 2024 East Coast Music Award for “Fans’ Choice Entertainer of the Year”, and is also nominated for a 2025 Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for “New/Emerging Artist of the Year”. The accolades are deserved, as this Celtic Rock group has a high-energy live show that leaves audiences hollering from their seats. "
"Home Free is an American country a cappella group of five vocalists: Adam Bell-Bastien, Adam Chance, Rob Lundquist, Adam Rupp, and Tim Foust. Starting as a show group, they toured with approximately 200 shows a year across the United States.
The band released their first major label album, Crazy Life, in February 2014. Their latest album, Challenge the Sea, was released in September 2025."
"The Skullduggers are a high energy pirate band from Anaheim, USA. They entertain audiences with their unique arrangements of traditional sea shanties, forebitters and maritime classics. This quintet perform their lively music with traditional folk instruments: guitar, mandolin, fiddle, accordion, and tabor."
"The Wellermen’s history is well-known: having been the originators of the sea shanty trend on Tiktok, they’ve since gone from strength to strength, gaining a huge following across social media with new trends linked to their music. Their versions of ‘Misty Mountains’ and Ed Sheeran’s ‘Nancy Mulligan’, along with their spine-tingling rendition of ‘Hoist The Colours’ have racked up billions of views across Tiktok and youtube and over 110m streams of their debut album, and led them to appearances on shows like Ant and Dec, LAst Week Tonight with Jon Oliver, The Colbert Show and more."