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.
Maritime Work Songs
Northern Neck Chantey Singers
(Northumberland & 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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