The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival presents traditional American and English folk music. Since the autumn of 2000, we have celebrated our local and national heritage of seafaring and maritime trades by taking nautical songs and music to the pubs, cafés, churches and streets of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The festival is held on the last weekend in September, with free events both Saturday and Sunday. Our 2011 (twelfth) festival was very well-received and highly successful, for which we thank all our friends, fans and supporters. In 2012, there are five weekends in September; our thirteenth annual festival will be held Saturday, Sept. 29 and Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012.

The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival is funded exclusively by the generous donations of local friends, businesses and companies and by fans of maritime music from all over. For the third year in a row, Portsmouth’s Celtic Crossing gift shop sponsored our Saturday evening concert, which was an enormous success. Thank you, Celtic Crossing!!

More about us! 2011 News!! The Wire, Sept. 14; Portsmouth Patch photo/video selection, Sept. 26.

More great press from Foster’s Daily Democrat: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

The Portsmouth Herald: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

Rye Reflections: September 2008, September 2010

YouTubes: 2009: Andy Kenna, 2010: Saturday, D. Coffin-1, D. Coffin-2, D. & L. Coffin, GBS, Mudhook-1, Mudhook-2, Mudhook-3, Ken Sweeney, Three Sheets, 2011: GBS-1, GBS-2, Mudhook, Roving Shantying

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