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The essence of the Atlantic Ocean takes center stage for the Rockport Celtic Festival’s finale, complete with never-before-heard artist collaboration, narration by Ben Shattuck and some very special guests.

Where the Sea Meets the Land

Rockport Music-Shalin Liu Performance Center

Bring your voices to a boisterous Chantey Sing with David Coffin. Sing along on the chorus of a hauling, stamping, heaving, capstan, what-have-you chantey. No experience required and lyrics will be provided. Let’s rattle the rafters!!

Chantey Sing with David Coffin

First Congregational Church of Rockport

Join us for this year’s nautical adventure as we traverse the Atlantic Ocean from shore to shore. We present the firepower of the Pine Tree Flyers, a quartet from Portland, Maine that has sourced and reignited repertoire from the state of Maine. We welcome back local Sea Shanty star David Coffin as well as the Rasa String Quartet, who will be collaborating with our artist in residence Jeremy Kittel, as well as sharing some sea-themed repertoire from the Western Classical canon. Returning for a second night, US-based Scottish fiddler and singer Hannah Read shares her take on a number of traditional songs of the sea with accompaniment by Maeve Gilchrist and bassist Logan Steele Coale.

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Transatlantic

Shalin Liu Performance Center

Come out for a rollicking evening of sea chanteys as the booming baritone of David Coffin leads a night of maritime story and song. Be sure to bring your voice!

At the heart of David Coffin’s work is traditional and contemporary folk music. He draws on vocal and instrumental music from North America as well as England, Scotland, Ireland and Brittany, but the songs from the Maritime tradition; sea-chanteys, ballads and the songs of the sailors comprise his main repertoire.

David Coffin

Features the stunning voice of Irish singer Eilis Kennedy from Dingle, Ireland. In 2020, Kennedy, inspired by a series of letters written by Whaling fisherman that she found in the New Bedford Whaling Museum, wrote an album of songs inspired by the sea and the men and women who make their lives around it.

 ‘A wife left behind , a wife on board, an adventurous young man , a brave and wise captain , an ill- fated voyage, a drowning , a rescue, an elegy , and a song of hope in times of despair’

Letters from the Sea

Come out for a rollicking evening of sea chanteys as the booming baritone of David Coffin leads a night of maritime story and song.  Be sure to bring your voice!

At the heart of David Coffin’s work is traditional and contemporary folk music. He draws on vocal and instrumental music from North America as well as England, Scotland, Ireland and Brittany, but the songs from the Maritime tradition; sea-chanteys, ballads and the songs of the sailors comprise his main repertoire.

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David Coffin

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Sep 14, 2025

Where the Sea Meets the Land · Rockport Music

Sep 13, 2025

Chantey Sing with David Coffin · Rockport Music

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