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Symposium on Music of the Sea
31st Annual Sea Music Festival
11-12 June 2009

Co-sponsored by Mystic Seaport,
the University of Connecticut at Avery Point,
and the United States Coast Guard Academy.

The first day of the symposium is FREE and will be held at the Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut, 1084 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT, in Room 103 of the Marine Sciences Building. For directions and a map of the campus: http://averypoint.uconn.edu/avery_point/about.php

The second day of the symposium will be held in the Greenmanville Church, Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Ave., Mystic, CT. For directions, click on "Plan Your Visit" at http://www.mysticseaport.org. The cost of the symposium at Mystic Seaport is included in the cost of admission to the 31st Annual Sea Music Festival. Click on "Calendar of Events" OR "Buy Tickets Online." Tickets can be bought at the door.

Friday, June 11, UConn Avery Point, Marine Science Building Room 103
9:00 Coffee and Danish
9:20 Welcome: Morning Moderator Glenn S. Gordinier
9:30 Jerry Bryant, "'Long We've Toiled on the Rolling Wave': One Sea Song's Journey from the Gun Deck to Hollywood"
10:15 April Grant, "TERRIBLE POLLY: The Battle of the Sexes in Gale Huntington's Songs the Whalemen Sang"
11:00 Coffee and Danish
11:15 Tim Radford, "Maritime Songs and Singers Collected in Hampshire, England, by Dr. George Gardiner, 1905-1909"
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Reconvene: Afternoon Moderator Mary K Bercaw Edwards
Tim Prchal "'The Currents of the Soul': The Atlantic Reflected in 19th-Century American Immigration Songs"
2:15 Bob Walser "Dreg Songs: A Scots Oyster Fishing Tradition: Oyster Dredging Songs of the Firth of Forth"
4:00 Return to Mystic Seaport for a special demonstration in the whaleboat by the Barrouallie Whalemen

Saturday, June 12, Mystic Seaport, Greenmanville Church
9:30 Welcome: Moderator Glenn S. Gordinier
Stephen D. Winick, "Richard Doerflinger, Patrick Tayluer, and the Other Leaving of Liverpool"
10:45 Stuart M. Frank, Ballads and Songs of the American Sailor

Please contact Mary K Bercaw Edwards or Glenn Gordinier with questions.