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Festival Programme
Friday
The Met

3.00pm - 5.00pm
Come all ye bold mariners! ….Welcome singaround

Festival Concert m.c. Derek Gifford and Chris Milner
7.00pm Monkeys Fist
7.25pm Malcolm Ward
7.50pm Peter Taylor
8.15pm Steve Dawes & Helen Pitt
8.40pm Dick Miles
9.05pm Armstrongs Patent

9.30 Interval

9.45pm Andy Kenna
10.10pm Withernsea Pirates
10.35pm Derek Gifford
11.00pm Devils Water
Finishes at 11.40pm
Saturday

10.00am See the Sea-Birds of Whitby.
With your amiable and knowledgeable guide, Derek Gifford.
Meet beneath Scoresby's Polar Bear on the old town side of swing bridge
- appropriate footwear recommended.

Rifle Club
11.30am Meet 'n' Greet - 'Rum and Shanties' with Armstrong's Patent
from Appingedam, Holland. Enjoy a tot of rum…..and coffee!

12.30pm Malcolm Ward - performs songs from his new CD

1.00pm 'Pirates, Dockseys and Press Gangs' - Song and Shanty session
Steve Dawes & Helen Pitt with guests Andy Kenna, Stormcrow,
Malcolm Ward, Peter Taylor, Dick Miles, Monkeys Fist. Finishes 4.30pm.

The Met

Day-time Events

11.00am Meet The Artist – Dick Miles

Afternoon Concert
Chris Milner introduces:

12.00pm Malcolm Ward
12.30pm Corsaires De La Vedre
1.00pm Devils Water
1.30pm Armstrongs Patent
2.00pm Derek Gifford
2.30pm 'Poetry, Songs and Stories of The Sea' with The Scarborough Poets,
Boathook Bald, Baggyrinkle and Andy Kenna
4.00pm Dick Miles
4.30pm Stormcrow

Festival Concert
mc's Derek Gifford and Chris Milner introduce:

6.00pm Last years Song Competition Winner 'Chris Milner'
6.25pm Malcolm Ward
6.50pm Steve Dawes & Helen Pitt
7.15 pm Derek Gifford
7.40 pm Ramshackle Shantymen
8.05 pm Devils Water

8.30pm Interval

8.40 pm Monkeys Fist
9.05 pm Dick Miles
9.30 pm Baggyrinkle
9.55 pm Andy Kenna
10.20 pm Withernsea Pirates
10.45 pm Armstrongs Patent

Dockend(Subject to weather)
11.00am – 12.00 pm Baggyrinkle and Monkeys Fist

Bandstand
11.30am Devils Water
12.30pm Chris Milner
1.00pm Baggyrinkle
1.30pm Ramshackle Shantymen
2.00pm Monkeys Fist
2.30pm Withernsea Pirates
3.00pm Corsaires De La Vedre
3.30pm Armstrongs Patent (30min)

Facepainting 1.00pm - 3pm
Sunday

Rifle Club

10.30am Song Competition

12.00 noon Andy Kenna and Dick Miles host "At Sea and on Land" with guests
Malcolm Ward, Armstrongs Patent, Boathook Bald, Derek Gifford,
Stormcrow, Peter Taylor, Steve Dawes & Helen Pitt and Dick Miles
Finish 4.00pm

The Met

11.00am 'Salty Sea Ladies' Session - Helen Pitt, Sara Dennis, Kate Green etc.

Afternoon Concert
Chris Milner introduces

12.00pm Peg Powler
12.30pm Dick Miles
1.00pm Baggyrinkle
1.30pm Andy Kenna
2.00pm Derek Gifford
2.25pm Peter Taylor
2.40pm Steve Dawes & Helen Pitt
3.05pm Boathook Bald – A Prawn Mans Life
3.20pm Men Of Staithes

3.40pm Interval

4.00pm Talk and Slide Show 'The Rohilla Disaster 1914'
by Peter Thompson MBE RNLI
Hon. Curator , Whitby Lifeboat Museum

4.45pm Songs from 'Stormbound'
excerpts from the work written and produced by Richard Grainger for the
Ghosts Of Heroes Project telling the dramatic tale of the "Rohilla' Disaster
of 1914. With Steve Dawes, Sara Dennis, Monkeys Fist, Richard Grainger,
Chris Parkinson, Helen Pitt, Kevin Young, Men Of Staithes
Plus Young People from the Festivals Shoots & Roots Group
(Students of Eskdale School, and Caedmon College Whitby)
Narrated by Ivan Hall

Finale Concert
Mc's Richard Grainger and Dick Miles

6.00pm Song Competition Winner
6.10pm Corsaires De la Vedre
6.25pm Chris Milner
6.40pm Withernsea Pirates
6.55pm Devils Water
7.10pm Malcolm Ward
7.25pm Monkeys Fist
7.40pm Richard Grainger & Chris Parkinson
7.55pm Armstrongs Patent

Dockend( subject to weather)
11.00am Monkeys Fist and Baggyrinkle (1hr)
1.00pm Stormcrow
1.30pm Monkeys Fist

Bandstand
11.00am Armstrongs Patent
11.30am Chris Milner
12.00pm Monkeys Fist
12.30pm Corsaires De La Vedre
1.00pm Devils Water
1.30pm Peg Powler
2.00pm Baggyrinkle
2.30pm Stormcrow
3.00pm Withernsea Pirates
3.30pm Devils Water

Facepainting 1.00pm -3.00pm