Musician, scholar and educator Bob Walser’s musical career spans decades and continents. Bob has been a shantyman at Mystic Seaport and has performed as a singer, dance leader and dance musician from Maine to California and overseas. As a scholar, Bob earned his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. His research in Folk Music and Music Education has been published in the Folk Song Journal (UK) and publications by World Music Press. In addition, he has three CDs on The Old and New Tradition label to his credit as well as guest appearances on another dozen recordings in the US, France and England. Outward Bound on the JM Carpenter is a collection of sea songs and shanties from the James Madison Carpenter Collection.
The Chicago Maritime Festival
An International Gathering to Celebrate
Chicago's Maritime Community
at the
Chicago History Museum
(Clark Street at North Avenue)
February 26, 2011
Lectures, seminars, demonstrations, exhibits, workshops 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Evening Concert 7:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
The Chicago Maritime Festival is an annual event held at the Chicago History Museum that presents the most diverse maritime program ever staged in the Great Lakes and an outreach program to over 5,000 students, seniors and adults with disabilities. Daytime activities include maritime history, lighthouses, shipwrecks, model boats for kids, life raft demonstrations, marine art, songs for younger sailors, knot tying and more, presented by working mariners, authors, divers, educators, explorers, artists and nautical notables from around the world. The evening concert features some of the finest maritime singers from both sides of the Atlantic.
Children under 12 free with ticketed adult. (Daytime activities only.)
10% discount for members of the Chicago History Museum and Chicago Maritime Society
Outreach Performances and Classroom Lectures are also available
Monday - Friday February 23-25, 2011
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