The final line-up for this year's Festival now looks like:

Cyril Tawney, Louis Killen, Hughie Jones, Sid Kipper, Dick Miles, Stormalong John, The New Scorpion Band, Geoff Higginbottom, Jim Eldon, Derek Gifford, Red Duster, The Shellback Chorus, John Conolly, Baggyrinkle, Roaring Forties, Forebitter, Trim Rig & A Doxy, The Shanty Crew, Mollyhawks, Paul Sirman, John Horsey, Johnny Collins, Debra Cowan, Four 'n' Aft, Steve Dawes & Helen Pitt, Three Sheets to the Wind, Keith Kendrick, LocTup Together, Roy Harris, Graeme Knights, Monkey's Fist, Sheafknot, Shanty Jack, Portsmouth Shantymen, Bitter End, Hautbois, The Keelers, Barrie & Ingrid Temple, Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman, Scold's Bridle, Harry Brown Shantymen, Danny & Joyce McLeod, Richard Grainger,Tim Laycock, Th'Antique Roadshow, The Endeavour Shantymen and Benny Graham & Chuck Fleming.

Other entertainments include talks by Roy Palmer and Alan Bell, guided walks, nautical dramas, knot-tying and ropework demos, a Georgian period 'Trafalgar Victory Fair' and, on Easter Sunday, the Twelfth National Sedan Chair Carrying Championships!

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Thanks

Val