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Festival Memories
Hear maritime music and stories, view videos, and see photos from the 2004 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Water Ways Program 
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Shore Memories Music
Throughout the 2004 Folklife Festival, dozens of musicians shared their songs and stories. Click on the links below to listen to live recordings from the Festival.

Songs are arranged by genre. For more information on the artists' home communities, visit the Ports of Call page here.


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shore Memories

 

  Maritime Work Songs

Northern Neck Chantey Singers
Northumberland and Lancaster Co., VA
   Help Me Raise 'Em
It Looked Like Rain
The Whittington Family
Crisfield, MD
Old Time Religion
Stepped In The Water
 

 

   Songs of the Chesapeake Bay Region

The Chesapeake Scenes
Bring That Fish Back Home
Anybody Seen My Gal?
Sharptown Blues
The Chester River
Davey Crockett
Tangier Island, VA
The Brothers Ward (from Pat O'Brennan)
My Tangier
Shaft Tong Boogey
Janie Meneely
Eastport, MD
The Old Bayman
The Boat Builder
Joseph Norris
California, MD
The Waterman
Well This is the Life I Live
Them Eastport Oyster Boys
Eastport, MD
Willie Brown
Back Creek Crab
Miss Lonesome
Tom Wisner
Solomon's Island, MD
Born in the Marble City
Chesapeake Born
Made of Water
Bob Zentz
Norfolk, VA
The Old Grey Squirrel
The Sailor's Consolation
 

 

   Mid-Atlantic Region Gospel

The Christiannaires
Baltimore, MD
Glory to His Name
How Do You Get the Holy Spirit?
The Gospel Supreme
Baltimore, MD
Oh, How I Love Jesus
Elmer Mackell and the Faith Singers
Prince Frederick, MD
Just Trying to Make it to the Other Side
Sit At His Feet (And Be Blessed)
New Gospelites and Sombarkin
Worton Point, MD
I Want To Walk and Talk With Jesus
Tearing Down Satan's Kingdom
The Paschall Brothers
Norfolk, VA
A Mean Old World to Live in All By Yourself
The Lord's Prayer
The SAIF Water Singers
Lancaster & Northumberland Co., VA
I'm Just a Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Wade in the Water
 

    Old-time, Country Ragtime and
                        Historic Popular

Carawan Brothers
Swan's Quarter, NC
Harbor Lights
This Train
Phillips Gangplank Ragtime Band
Baltimore, MD
Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay
 

 

   Songs of "Down East" North Carolina

Connie Mason
Carteret County, NC
On my Island Home
Throw Out the Lifeline (with Davey Crockett)
 

 

   Songs for Kids

Magpie
Takoma Park, MD
Tales of the Blue Crab
Janie Meneely
Eastport, MD
Crab Song for Kids
Tom Wisner
Solomon's Island, MD
How Does It Feel To Be A Fish?
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