title: List of maritime music performers
text: # 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
  * 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
  