Tickets allow you to enjoy full-day access to the event, with the freedom to leave and re-enter throughout.
Set times TBC.
THE LINE-UP
The Chantry Buoys
Based in Colyton, Devon, the Chantry Buoys sing traditional sea shanties, and other well known songs. They have performed at many Sea Shanty festivals, including Falmouth, Teignmouth, and recently performed on Lyme’s Marine Parade, to close Lifeboat week.
Lyme Bay Moonrakers
Founded in 2020 by Musical Director Mark Hewitt, Lyme Bay Moonrakers is a vocal group of 20 men and women from the Lyme Regis and Axminster areas. The group sing mainly unaccompanied songs of the sea, in bold, new musical arrangements. Folk songs, ballads and shanties, as well as new original songs, feature in their pop-up performances and yearly theatre shows. You can find them singing in 19th century-style costume, supporting local events in Lyme Regis such as the Fossil Festival, the RNLI, the Lyme Regis Boat Building Academy, the Lyme Regis Gig Club and many more. Their first CD ‘Songs for the Wellerman’ was released in 2022.
Bridport Broadsides
Bridport Broadsides are a disparate collection of old (and not so old) men formed in 2019 and are currently a thriving crew of 14 with total age of 980 and average age of 70. They have a desire to enchant the world with their vocal excellence and sparkling wit (?!) through renditions of shanties and sea songs. In doing so, they have supported a variety of worthy, needy, and good causes, and have performed at various festivals and village fetes and often by invitation in pubs, but have yet to succeed in completely emptying one!
Severn Whalers
The Severn Whalers hail from the banks of the River Severn near Bristol, bringing powerful harmonies, driving rhythms and a deep love of maritime song. Regular performers at festivals across the UK, they deliver traditional shanties and sea songs with warmth, humour and plenty of audience participation—equally at home, on stage, or in the pub.
Dorset Wrecks
Formed in 2013, Dorset Wrecks sea shanty group had their first gig when 5 of the initial 6 members sang in the harbour on MV Freedom to support them in taking disabled people for sea cruises from Weymouth. They rehearse weekly at the Old Town Hall, Weymouth to improve harmonies and take on new songs and have sung at weddings, social events, funerals, Trafalgar nights, Poole Fireworks and also its Sea Food Festival, Camp Bestival, Weymouth Sea Food Festival, and many other festivals.
Cousin Jack
Cousin Jack are a singing group based in Bude, Cornwall. They are made up of 10 singers and 4 musicians and perform a variety of songs from Irish and folk to Cornish and shanties. They sing with harmony and enjoy performing all over the South West at different events and venues. Their accomplished musicians can perform a range of instrumentals so that the entertainment never stops. They were formed in September 2018. They are proud to have been supported on their journey so far by The Blanchminster Trust also Tintagel Brewery, The Cobweb Inn, Wooda Farm Holiday Park, and Bar 35. Their aim is to share their music whilst having fun with both old and new friends. They are closely linked with the RNLI with 3 operational volunteers and 2 retired crew members.