Since the autumn of 2000, the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival has been held annually in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. We celebrate our local and national heritage of seafaring and maritime trades by taking nautical songs and music to the pubs, cafés, churches and streets of this seacoast town. The festival is held on the last weekend in September, with free music in the streets all afternoon 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 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 (Spotlight cover story), 2004 (09/26), 2004 (09/27), 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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