During a pleasant March weekend in Chicago I visited the 4th annual Maritime festival. A promising event that featured interesting displays, insightful lectures and workshops and of course a great array of international performers. It was an exhausting, but highly entertaining day of festivities and could easily become a major event.

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For information regarding this faire, check out: Chicago Maritime Festival's Official Site

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Starting off the morning	with all hands on deck	My friends Bounding Main, a great shanty group	Maggie and Jon
John Townley	A talented musician	A rousing rendition of Sam's Gone Away	Tom & Chris Castle, the organizers of this event
Also appearing David HB Drake	He's performed on tall ships	One of the musical workshops	Townley smokin on 2 sets of bones
He's followed by the Boekaniers	They came all the way from the Netherlands	They're one of over a hundred dutch shanty choirs	Nanne Kalma & Ankie van der Meer are also from the Netherlands

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