Dan Milner Dan has been involved in Irish traditional song all his life as a singer, author, collector, organizer, and teacher and with shantey singing and maritime ballads on both sides of the Atlantic. He is also the author of a wonderful book of folk songs called The Bonnie Bunch of Roses, and his Folk-Legacy maritime recording, Irish Ballads & Songs of the Sea with Louis Killen, Mick Moloney, Bob Conroy and others, is a classic. Dan has just released a new recording, Irish Pirate Ballads, on Smithsonian Folkways. Dan also ran a weekly traditional music club at Malachy McCourt's Bells of Hell and The Eagle Tavern in New York for 10 years.
www.davidcoffin.com	David Coffin David has performed throughout New England for 25 years in venues ranging from concert halls and coffeehouses to bonfires and funerals. A renowned shanty singer, his repertoire also includes ballads and Baroque sonatas. His music draws heavily on the traditional music of the United States, as well as England, Scotland, Ireland and Brittany. He also has an extensive background in Early Music and plays recorder, gemshorn, cornamuse, shawm, rauschphieffe, and bombard
www.thejohnsongirls.com	The Johnson Girls Each of The Johnson Girls was captivated by the music of the sea at different times in their lives, and came together in 1997 following the Mystic Seaport Sea Music festival to burst through the barrier of this previously male dominated genre. The Johnson Girls is an energetic all-woman mostly a cappella group performing folk music with an emphasis on songs of the sea and shore. Each member of the group brings a specialty and style to the ensemble. The Johnson Girls. extensive repertoire of both traditional and contemporary music includes songs with an Afro-Caribbean influence, of the inland waterways, of fishing, mining, Irish, Anglo-American, Italian and French Canadian ballads and work songs, and much more.
	Patrick Denain and Miguel Biard Patrick and Miguel both hale from High Normandy. A second-generation traditional singer, Patrick made his first recording in 1981 and is the leader of "Maree de Paradis"" one of the most famous maritime groups in France. After winning the Armand Hayet Trophy in 2000, the group took off for the States to perform at Mystic Seaport. Miguel belongs to a new generation of traditional singers and has established a fine reputation in a very short time. Together they perform shanties and maritime songs from both Normandies, the songs of the Newfoundland fishermen of Fecamp and Granville, and shanties from the whalers and clippers of Le Havre, along with the songs of the fishers of Dieppe and Low Normandy.
www.kastles.net	Tom and Chris Kastle Tom and Chris Kastle's songs and stories reflect their lives as singers, sailors, and travelers. They have toured throughout the United States, where their performance credits span Mystic Seaport Museum and Passim to the Northwest Folklife Festival and the Florida Friends of Folk. Tom and Chris teach at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago and have been featured on public radio and television shows coast to coast. They have also appeared at concert venues and festivals across Europe and New Zealand. Tom has served as the captain of several tall ships around the Great Lakes and can be seen yearly as part of the Weather Channel's "The Christmas Tree Ship: A Holiday Storm Story." Chris has recently taken the position of Director of Education at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum in Florida. They are founders and directors of the Chicago Maritime Festival

2007 featured performers: Bounding Main, Jerry Bryant, Johnny Collins, Philippe Duo, Tom and Chris Kastle

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.