in addition to a great line up of performers, we have a day and a half of presentations on the grounds Friday and /Saturday.... guess which ones are mudcatters


June 7 & 8, 2019 sees the 40th Annual Sea Music Fest         
          “MUSIC OF THE SEA” SYMPOSIUM

Friday, June 7
8:30 Coffee and Morning Refreshments
9:00 Official Welcome

9:15 Corinne Galligan, General Music Specialist
Hauling and Heaving Chantey Comparison: Halyard, Short-Drag, Capstan, and Pump Chanteys

10:00 Robert D. Madison, Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
“The Yankee Privateer”: The Rest of the Story

10:45 Morning Break

11:00 David Peloquin, Independent Scholar
The Singer, the Singing, and the Song are One: Melville’s Mardi and the “Wild Music” of the Sea

11:45 Stephen N. Sanfilippo, Ph.D., Maine Maritime Academy
Slippery as an Eel: Poems and Songs of Eels and the Human Condition

12:30 Lunch

1:45 Charles Ipcar, Ph.D., Independent Scholar
Steamboat and Roustabout Songs

2:30 Bonnie Milner (moderator), Celeste Bernardo, Ellen Cohn, Lynz Morahn
Panel Discussion: Women in Sea Music: Past, Present, and Future
Saturday June 8

8:30 Coffee and Morning Refreshments
9:00 Official Welcome

9:15 Gibb Schreffler, Ph.D., Pomona College
“Screwing Cotton by the Day”: Screwmen’s Songs and Multiracial Musicking on the Nineteenth-Century
American Waterfront

10:00 James Revell Carr III, Ph.D., Director, John Jacob Niles Center for American Music
“That evening our men daunced with the Indians”: Sailors and Musical Commerce in the late 18th- and
early 19th-century Pacific

10:45 Morning Break

11:00 Robert Young Walser (moderator), James Revell Carr III, Gibb Schreffler, Craig Edwards
Panel Discussion: “What’s Past is Prologue”: The Past, Present, and Future of Sea Music Research

Please note that the Saturday morning break is intended to be only 15 minutes so that we can wrap up at 11:45 a.m. to allow a reset for the first workshopival at Mystic Seaport