List of maritime music performers
# List of maritime music performers

This is a list of performers who focus on maritime music or who have at some point made notable contributions to that genre.

## Traditional-style performers

* Jerry Bryant, singer-songwriter from Maine, also performs historical shanties in a traditional style.
* David Coffin, from Gloucester, Massachusetts, leader of Revels music group in Cambridge.
* Johnny Collins, a modern-day shantyman (1938–2009)
* Forebitter, group featuring performers associated with the Mystic Seaport Museum
* Stan Hugill, "Last Working Shantyman" (1906–1992)
* The Idlers, an all-male a cappella shanty group at the United States Coast Guard Academy (1957–present)
* The Johnson Girls, an all-female shanty group from New York
* Tom and Chris Kastle, singer-songwriters from Chicago, also perform historical shanties in a traditional style
* Tom Lewis, Canadian singer-songwriter, also performs historical shanties in a traditional style
* Northern Neck Shanty Singers, a menhaden shanty group, some of whom learned the songs as work songs on fishing boats when they were young men
* Roberts and Barrand, proponents of traditional British song from New York and New England (1969-)
* Salty Walt & the Rattlin' Ratlines, from San Francisco

## Folk music-style performers

* Peter Bellamy, British folk singer; wrote "Roll Down" (aka "Transports Shanty") (1944-1981)
* Debra Cowan, sea music performer from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
* Roger McGuinn, from Chicago
* William Pint and Felicia Dale, from Seattle
* Bob Roberts, British Merchant Seaman and folk singer (1907–1982)
* Stan Rogers, Canadian performer; wrote "Barrett's Privateers" (1949–1983)
* Cyril Tawney, British performer (1930–2005)
* John Townley, also known for opening the first 12-track recording studio in New York, Apostolic Recording Studio
* Bob Zentz
* Stompin' Tom Connors
* Alan Mills, Canadian performer, folk singer, writer and actor, best known for multiple recording on Folkways Records including "Songs of the Sea" recorded in 1959 (1913-1977)

## Contemporary-style performers

* Banana Boat, an a cappella sextet from Poland performing "neo-shanties" as well as traditional sea-shanties in contemporary arrangements
* Bounding Main, an a cappella quintet based near Kenosha, Wisconsin
* Captain Bogg and Salty, a pirate-themed rock band which performs many traditional shanties, as well as writing several of their own
* Great Big Sea, Canadian band performing some shanties in traditional style
