2004 Featured Performers Subject to change. Check back for updates.
		Don Sineti Don Sineti is a self taught artist, educator and musician. He is also an activist who helped found the Cetacean Society International, which aims to protect whales, porpoises, and dolphins around the world. His drawings have appeared in several publications including Alaska Geographic Magazine. A former 60s coffeehouse folksinger, Don can be found today working as a chanteyman at the Mystic Seaport Museum or performing with The Finest Kind or The Morgans. When you listen to Don sing a chantey, you can believe the old adage that a good chanteyman is worth ten men on a line. Don will be joined by multi-instrumentalist Steve Roys.
		Tom Lewis Tom is a 25 year veteren of Her Majesty's Royal Navy, although he is comfortably located on dry land in British Columbia, Canada. His songs cover a wide range of nautical topics, from life aboard ships, the loneliness and lure of the sea, and a tale of a certain ship's mascot. Tom's has written some of the new classics of maritime music including A Sailor Ain't A Sailor (Last Shanty) and An Ex-Sailor's Life.
		Tom & Chris Kastle As “Chicago’s first family of maritime music”, Tom and Chris Kastle are singers, sailors, songwriters, and storytellers, internationally acclaimed for their interpretations of traditional material as well as their original works. They have numerous radio and television appearances and have performed at festivals and concerts throughout the United States as well as Canada, Europe and New Zealand. In 1985 they started to weave their stage careers with sailing, coming up “through the hawse pipe” to become professional crew on traditionally rigged sailing ships (Tom is a licensed captain). For over two decades, the Kastles have garnered a reputation for fine vocal and instrumental work, fascinating stories in word and in song, innovative festival workshops and powerful concert sets.
		Bob Zentz Bob Zentz is a singer of over 2,000 songs, consumate songwriter, teacher, poet, folk festival organizer, folk music promoter, producer, music store proprietor, master of twenty instruments, and a teller of "the tales behind the songs". Bob is no stranger to the decks of Navy vessels, sailing ships, and the and waters of his beloved Chesapeake Bay.
		The Johnson Girls Formed in 1997 following the Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut, The Johnson Girls is a primarily a capella group performing traditional and contemporary folk music with an emphasis on sea chanteys and other maritime music. They have been featured at all the major maritime festivals in the United States as well as folk and maritime festivals across Europe. Following their performances at the 2001 Mystic Seaport Museum’s, Festival Director Craig Edwards wrote: “…The Johnson Girls turned in magnificent performances at the 22nd Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival, including a powerhouse main stage slot on Saturday night that demonstrated that you’re not great female chantey singers, you’re great chantey singers, period. … A world class act.” 2003 Performers: Kat yn’t Seil, Johnny Collins, John Conolly, Tom & Chris Kastle, 97th Regimental String Band, Mlynn, Lanialoha Lee, Sheridan Shores Chantey Singers, Old Town School Sea Music Class.

Special guests for 2004 will include: Lanialoha Lee, David H.B. Drake, Bounding Main, Sheridan Shore Chantey Singers, and Old Town School of Folk Music Sea Music Class.