Four-Day Event Features Daytime Workshops, Evening Concerts, a Children’s Stage and Symposium
Sea Music Festival
Traditional and contemporary maritime music from more than 30 performers will highlight the 30th anniversary of the Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport Thursday through Sunday, June 11-14.
Musicians will perform onstage Saturday and Sunday (June 13 - 14) from 12 - 5p.m. Themed workshops and demonstrations will take place aboard the tall ships Joseph Conrad and L.A. Dunton, as well as on Museum grounds.
All workshops are included in regular Mystic Seaport admission and do not require separate tickets. New this year, college students will be admitted into the festival for the youth rate of $15 upon presentation of a current student ID.
The festival also features evening concerts Thursday through Saturday (June 11 - 13) from 7-10 p.m. at the Boat Shed on Lighthouse Point. Tickets are required for evening concerts and can be purchased online at www.mysticseaport.org/seamusicfestival. Weekend passes are also available.
A special children’s stage will offer daytime workshops and on-site activities designed especially for a younger audience. Children will be able to create paper hats, banners and musical instruments in the Museum’s Discovery Barn and later wear these special creations in the children’s parade which marches through Museum grounds Sunday at 2:45 p.m.
Additionally, the 30th annual Music of the Sea Symposium will be held Friday and Saturday June 12 - 13. The newly expanded two-day Symposium explores the interaction between sea, music and song. In partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the University of Connecticut at Avery Point, the symposium’s presenters may talk about history, folklore, literature, ethnomusicology or another related field, but each will address an aspect of maritime music from the great age of sail through present day.
The Friday, June 12, symposium session will be from 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London and is free and open to the public. The symposium continues Saturday, June 13, from 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. at Mystic Seaport and is free for Museum members.
The featured performers in the 30th annual Sea Music Festival hail from various regions of the United States, as well as from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland and The Netherlands. The lineup includes: Louis Killen, The Clancy Legacy, Danny Spooner, Martin and Phillip Hugill, Barnacle, Bob Walser, Bob Webb, Talitha MacKenzie and Les Bouthilliers, Stuart Frank and Mary Malloy, Carl Thornton, Cliff Haslam, Daisy Nell and Stan Collinson, Dave Peloquin, David Kleiman, Heather Wood, Ellen Cohn, Dick Holdstock and Allan MacLeod, Jeff Warner, Jerry Bryant, John Roberts, Judy Cook, Marc Bernier, Nanne Kalma and The Hudson Crew, New Bedford Harbor Sea Chantey Chorus, Rick Nestler, Rum Soaked Crooks, The Ancient Mariners and Walter Askew.
For more information, including a detailed schedule of performances, as well as the musicians’ bios, visit www.mysticseaport.org/seamusicfestival.
Mystic Seaport is the nation’s leading maritime museum. Founded in 1929, the Museum is home to four National Historic Landmark vessels, including the Charles W. Morgan, the last wooden whaleship in the world. The Museum is located one mile south of exit 90 off I-95 in Mystic, CT and is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and weekends from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $24 for adults and $15 for children ages 6-17. Children 5 and under are admitted for free. For more information, call 888.973.2767 or visit www.mysticseaport.org.
