Chicago Maritime Festival
Chicago, Illinois
2007 Chicago Maritime Festival - Saturday, February, 24
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2007 Featured Performers
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Bounding Main
Bounding Main, a costumed vocal group that sings richly harmonic versions of traditional maritime songs, is back this year as featured performers by popular demand. Each of their members is a music and theater veteran with as many as thirty years of experience. Their second CD, "Lost at Sea," has been critically acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Jerry Bryant
Jerry Bryant is a native of the State of Maine who, for the last 30 years, has performed folk music all over the United States. Performing on guitar, concertina, banjo, melodeon and other acoustic instruments, his repertoire includes hundreds of traditional and contemporary folk songs, with a particular interest in the music of sailors.
He has been featured in the San Francisco National Maritime Historic Park.s sea music concert series, Mystic Seaport.s annual Sea Music Festival, the New Bedford Whaling Museum.s Saturdays at Sea series, and many others. Jerry's original work, The Ballad of Harbo and Samuelsen, is one of the most popular ballads in maritime music. He can also can be heard on the Mystic Seaport CD American Sea Chanteys, and several other recordings. His CD Roast Beef of Old England is a collection of traditional songs from the man-of-war days of the British Navy, and is a companion to the seafaring novels of Patrick O.Brian
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Johnny Collins
It is with great delight that the Chicago Maritime Festival welcomes back Johnny Collins, whose vigorous style and supreme ability to persuade audiences to join in on choruses is unrivalled. Johnny, who was a featured performer at the first Chicago Maritime Festival in 2003, is a native of the county of Norfolk but now based in London, England, and is an internationally acclaimed performer specializing in the singing of shanties, sea songs and maritime ballads. His appearances in the US include the Maine Maritime Museum, Mystic Seaport, Kendall Whaling Museum, and tall ships festivals in Bay City, MI. Back home in England, Johnny is a favorite at the maritime and folk fests including Hull, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne, Lancaster, Bristol and the Cutty Sark races. He has been featured at clubs and festivals in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, and France and was the resident shantyman for Expo .88 in Brisbane, Australia.
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Philippe Duo
During the shanty festival in Workum (the Netherlands) in 2006, these two Philippes joined together to form .Philippe Duo. (Chicago Maritime Festival alumni Johnny Collins, Tom & Chris Kastle, Nanne Kalma & Ankie van der Meer and several members of the Boekaniers were on hand to witness this event). It is a duo based on friendship and the love of Breton and French maritime music.
Philippe Noirel, the Philippe with the HUGE voice, has been a singer for over 25 years and as performed with maritime groups such as Boujaron and Les Souilles de Fond de Cale at sea music festivals throughout the UK including Hull, Bristol, Liverpool, and Portsmouth, and in the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Iceland, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Philippe Rouxel, the Philippe with the swift hands on the button accordion*, has been immersed in Breton accordion music all his life. He is a founder of the group Les Bouinous and has toured extensively. Rouxel.s precise and passionate playing brings out the subtler points of their music and matches, to perfection, his friend.s powerful voice.
When Philippe Duo performs you are swept into the work songs, forecastle tunes, laments that will make you appreciate the fullness of the French sailors. repertoire.
* Actually, it is Philippe Noirel with his hands on the accordion in this photo.
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Tom and Chris Kastle
Tom and Chris Kastle's songs and stories reflect their lives as singers, sailors, and travelers. They have performed throughout the United States and Europe and have recently returned from a tour of New Zealand.
Performance credits span the country from Mystic Seaport Museum and Passim to the Northwest Folklife Festival and the Florida Friends of Folk. Their performances across the sea include the Shanties Festival in Krakow, Poland, the University of Trondheim (Norway), the Folk House in Kinsale, Ireland, and the National Maritime Museum and Devonport Folk Music Club in New Zealand.
Closer to home, Tom and Chris have performed at the Illinois Storytelling Festival, the Fox Valley Folk Festival and at tall ship events all around the Great Lakes. The Kastles teach at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago and have been featured on public radio and television shows. They have worked behind the scenes as well creating soundtracks for productions including WTTW TV's Chicago Stories (Race to Mackinac).
Using their experience as mariners as well as performers Tom and Chris have acted as hosts and MCs at tall ship events around the Great Lakes. Tom is a captain of the tall ship Windy at Navy Pier and can be seen yearly as part of the Weather Channel's "The Christmas Tree Ship: A Holiday Storm Story". They are founders and directors of the Chicago Maritime Festival.
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2006 featured performers: The Boekaniers, John Townley, Nanne Kalma & Ankie van der Meer, David HB Drake, Tom & Chris Kastle.
2005 featured performers: Pint & Dale, Serre l'Ecoute, Talitha MacKenzie, Lee Murdock, Tom and Chris Kastle,
2004 featured performers: The Johnson Girls, Tom Lewis, Bob Zentz, Don Sineti & Steve Roys, and Bob Zentz.
2003 featured performers: Kat yn^Yt Seil, Johnny Collins, John Conolly, Tom & Chris Kastle, the 97th Regimental String Band, and Mlynn.
Past special guest performers: Lanialoha Lee, Sheridan Shore Chantey Singers, David HB Drake, Bounding Main, The Friends Good Will Singers, and the Old Town School of Folk Music Sea Music Class.
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