The Chicago Maritime Festival is a

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and culture festival held in

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, Illinois, every winter, usually the last weekend in February, usually at the

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. It is not uncommon for over 500 people to participate. It has existed in its present incarnation since 2003 and is the only wintertime festival featuring maritime music in the United States. The main organizers are performers Tom & Chris Kastle. There was no festival in 2021.

List of musical performers at Chicago Maritime Festival

2003

*Kat yn 't Seil *

Johnny Collins Johnny Collins (10 May 1938 – 6 July 2009) was an England, English folk singer based in London, England, specializing in traditional maritime music and sea shanties. Biography Collins was born in Norfolk, England and adopted by a railway w ...

*John Conolly *97th Regimental String Band *Mlynn *Tom & Chris Kastle

2004

*Don Sineti * Tom Lewis *

Bob Zentz Bob Zentz is an American musician and educator from Norfolk, Virginia who has been performing for more than thirty years. He is a guitarist and also plays the autoharp, lute, melodeon, mouth harp, banjo, concertina and mandolin. He speciali ...

* The Johnson Girls *Tom & Chris Kastle *Lanialoha Lee *David H.B. Drake * Bounding Main *Sheridan Shore Chantey Singers *

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Sea Music Class

2005

* Pint & Dale *Serre l'Ecoute * Talitha MacKenzie * Lee Murdock *Tom & Chris Kastle *David H.B. Drake * Bounding Main *Sheridan Shore Chantey Singers *Friends Good Will Singers *Old Town School of Folk Music Sea Music Class

2006

(Held at the

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due to remodeling at the History Museum) *The Boekaneirs *David H.B. Drake *

John Townley John Townley (born 1945) is a musician, astrologer, and naval historian who was a member of the folk-rock group The Magicians and founder of New York City's Apostolic Recording Studio. Townley performs and releases maritime music, and is a prof ...

*Nanne Kalma & Ankie van der Meer *Tom & Chris Kastle

2007

*Bounding Main * Jerry Bryant *Johnny Collins *Philippe Duo (Philippe Noriel and Philippe Rouxel) *Tom & Chris Kastle

2008

*Northern Neck Chantey Singers * Debra Cowan * Walter "Salty Walt" Askew *Holdstock & MacLeod *Tom & Chris Kastle

2009

* Dan Milner *

David Coffin David Coffin is an American folk musician specializing in early music and sea music, based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States. He is the song leader for the Revels music programs in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also presents music enri ...

*The Johnson Girls *Patrick Denain and Miguel Biard *Tom & Chris Kastle *Bounding Main *Old Town School of Folk Music Sea Music Class

2010

*Caryl P. Weiss *

John Roberts John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as the 17th chief justice of the United States since 2005. Roberts has authored the majority opinion in several landmark cases, including ''Nati ...

*Rick Spencer *The 97th Regimental String Band *Tom and Chris Kastle *Old Town School of Folk Music Sea Music Class

2011

*Bob Walser *

Cindy Kallet Cindy Kallet is an American folk singer-songwriter from New England. She currently performs solo, with Grey Larsen, and as part of the trio of Kallet, Epstein & Cicone. Her first album, ''Working on Wings To Fly'' (1981), had songs about Martha ...

*Pint and Dale *Belize Culture and Heritage Association *Great Lakes Navy Band *Tom and Chris Kastle

References

External links

Chicago Maritime Festival official website
February events Music festivals in Chicago Maritime music festivals {{music-festival-stub