List of maritime music performers

This is a list of performers who focus on maritime music or who have at some point made notable contributions to that genre.

Traditional-style performers

• Jerry Bryant, singer-songwriter from Maine, also performs historical shanties in a traditional style.
• David Coffin, from Gloucester, Massachusetts, leader of Revels music group in Cambridge.
• Johnny Collins, a modern-day shantyman (1938–2009)
• Forebitter, group featuring performers associated with the Mystic Seaport Museum
• Stan Hugill, "Last Working Shantyman" (1906–1992)
• The Idlers, an all-male a cappella shanty group at the United States Coast Guard Academy (1957–present)
• The Johnson Girls, an all-female shanty group from New York
• Tom and Chris Kastle, singer-songwriters from Chicago, also perform historical shanties in a traditional style
• Tom Lewis, Canadian singer-songwriter, also performs historical shanties in a traditional style
• Northern Neck Shanty Singers, a menhaden shanty group, some of whom learned the songs as work songs on fishing boats when they were young men^[1]
• Roberts and Barrand, proponents of traditional British song from New York and New England (1969-)
• Salty Walt & the Rattlin' Ratlines, from San Francisco

Folk music-style performers

• Peter Bellamy, British folk singer; wrote "Roll Down" (aka "Transports Shanty") (1944-1981)
• Debra Cowan, sea music performer from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
• Roger McGuinn, from Chicago
• William Pint and Felicia Dale, from Seattle
• Bob Roberts, British Merchant Seaman and folk singer (1907–1982)
• Stan Rogers, Canadian performer; wrote "Barrett's Privateers" (1949–1983)
• Cyril Tawney, British performer (1930–2005)
• John Townley, also known for opening the first 12-track recording studio in New York, Apostolic Recording Studio
• Bob Zentz
• Stompin' Tom Connors
• Alan Mills, Canadian performer, folk singer, writer and actor, best known for multiple recording on Folkways Records including "Songs of the Sea" recorded in 1959 (1913-1977)

Contemporary-style performers

• Banana Boat, an a cappella sextet from Poland performing "neo-shanties" as well as traditional sea-shanties in contemporary arrangements
• Bounding Main, an a cappella quintet based near Kenosha, Wisconsin
• Captain Bogg and Salty, a pirate-themed rock band which performs many traditional shanties, as well as writing several of their own
• Great Big Sea, Canadian band performing some shanties in traditional style

See also

• Sea in culture#In music
• Sea shanty
• Folk music
• List of maritime music festivals