Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival

Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival Tales from the Sea - Shanty Festival happening in and around the waterfront of Gosport as part of the successful Gosport Marine Festival

Planned, managed and delivered by the team from Montserrat Events.

It’s great to hear of another success from another of the Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival venues- The Boathouse Gospo...
17/05/2026

It’s great to hear of another success from another of the Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival venues- The Boathouse Gosport had their busiest day of the year yesterday keeping the staff busy; which is great to hear.

Alan & I had a lovely morning coffee with Monique after picking up one of the graphic barriers and we’re pleased to say the Boathouse will be back as venue next year.

With this from taking it through with Monique we’ll be using more of the “Gosport Millennium Walk/Chain Walk" the Gosport Waterfront Trail to link the Shanty festival venues.

A msssive thank you to the team of our sponsor Erasmus Wolfe who welcomed our Shanty Bands to perform as part of the Ta...
17/05/2026

A msssive thank you to the team of our sponsor Erasmus Wolfe who welcomed our Shanty Bands to perform as part of the Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival yesterday.
We hope you’ll welcome us back next year.

If you’re a business why come on board as a sponsor for the 2027 event - [email protected]

We would like to say a massive thank you to Maria Hodgkins who supported our Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival yesterda...
17/05/2026

We would like to say a massive thank you to Maria Hodgkins who supported our Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival yesterday by not only allowing us to use three of her amazing venues of the The Lightship, The Creek and Coffee Quarters for the shanty performances but to the provision of the ‘Beverage & Bite’ for each performer.

Maria & her team created a wonderful lunch package for each performer of some food and drink; we got nothing but compliments from the shanty groups, so once again Maria & your entire team; thank you.

Hi Roy Coombes here, I will be compèring the main stage on Saturday. Please feel free to come up and say hi, it’s shapin...
13/05/2026

Hi Roy Coombes here, I will be compèring the main stage on Saturday. Please feel free to come up and say hi, it’s shaping up to be a good day with so many quality Shanty bands performing, be great to see you.

All aboard!Our armada of Shanty groups coming to Gosport as part of the Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival this Saturday...
13/05/2026

All aboard!
Our armada of Shanty groups coming to Gosport as part of the Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival this Saturday 16th May will be taking trips across the water on the Gosport Ferry during the day performing many Shanties 🏴‍☠️🎶.

Thank you to Adam and the Gosport Ferry team for their support with this.

Montserrat Events
Gosport Marine Festival
Tales from the Sea - Shanty Festival 2026
GoSport Activity Centre
Gosport Borough Council
The Boathouse Gosport
The Lightship at Haslar Marina
Coffee Quarters
The Creek at Haslar Marina
Erasmus Wolfe
Smile Emporium

We’re looking forward to our second year for the Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival as part of the Gosport Marine Festiv...
12/05/2026

We’re looking forward to our second year for the Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival as part of the Gosport Marine Festival. With 22 shanty groups performing across 8 locations it’s lined up to be a fun day of various shanty sings and and stories being performed.

One week to go!Next Saturday 16th the Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival is back for its second year 🎶🏴‍☠️🍺 supporting t...
09/05/2026

One week to go!
Next Saturday 16th the Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival is back for its second year
🎶🏴‍☠️🍺 supporting the Gosport Marine Festival.

The Gosport Waterfront will be invaded by 22 Shanty Groups across 8 locations performing sea shanties throughout the day - so get your blue/white tops & pirate outfits ready as it’s going to be an amazing fun day.

The Smile Emporium will be there with various stalls to keep you browsing and hopefully buying with food and beverage vendors to keep your thirst & hunger away.

We are pleased to welcome back the amazing aerial artist Annabelle who will be gracing us with more nautical creative displays during the day.

Roy Coombes will be compering on the main Smile Stage in Timespace as we see Tales from the Sea - Shanty Festival 2026 starting a 11am across the 8 locations.

Montserrat Events
GoSport Activity Centre
Erasmus Wolfe
Gosport Borough Council
Max Burditt
Quaywest Studios Ltd
The Lightship at Haslar Marina
The Creek at Haslar Marina
The Boathouse Gosport
Coffee Quarters

Bringing people together is what Montserrat Events enjoys doing. With an idea and a seed of six shanty groups just over ...
06/05/2026

Bringing people together is what Montserrat Events enjoys doing.

With an idea and a seed of six shanty groups just over two years ago we are on the verge of the second Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival happening on the 16th May, which will see 22 Shanty groups ascend into Gosport 🏴‍☠️🎶!

It’s great to be able to create a platform for these artists to perform; one of the groups have asked if we could share some details about them - it’s the Not a Mermaid in Sight from the Isle of Wight 😊

Not a Mermaid in Sight to be back again this year at the Tales of the Sea festival. We are into our 7th year and the Isle of Wights first female shanty band.

This season we are back with some extra crew, musicians and fabulous voices. We bring you traditional shanties, old favourites with some new sea songs, with a scattering of some surprises and lots of humour.

Catch us if you can, Not A Mermaid In Sight. We look forward to seeing you on the 16th May. NAMIS

⭐️Shanty performers if you had anything you wish us to share then please send it over 👍

Tales from the Sea - Shanty Festival 2026
Smile Emporium
GoSport Activity Centre
Gosport Marine Festival
Gosport Borough Council
Erasmus Wolfe
The Lightship at Haslar Marina
The Creek at Haslar Marina

Let’s navigate you to our festival venues for the Tales from the Sea - Shanty Festival 2026, part of the Gosport Marine ...
06/05/2026

Let’s navigate you to our festival venues for the Tales from the Sea - Shanty Festival 2026, part of the Gosport Marine Festival.

With 22 shanty groups ascending to Gosport they will be performing across 8 venues in and around the waterfront.

The venue map is attached showing the 8 venues where you can see the shanty groups performing in and around the Gosport Waterfront all with a easy walking distance between them:

🏴‍☠️ Timespace
🏴‍☠️ Cocklepond
🏴‍☠️ The Lightship
🏴‍☠️ The Creek
🏴‍☠️ Coffee Quarters
🏴‍☠️ Falklands Gardens
🏴‍☠️ The Boathouse
🏴‍☠️ Erasmus Wolfe

Erasmus Wolfe
Montserrat Events
GoSport Activity Centre
Gosport Borough Council
Cllr Lesley Meenaghan
Cllr Zoe Huggins BEM

There’s Shanties coming to the Gosport The Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival returns on Saturday 16th May as part of th...
06/05/2026

There’s Shanties coming to the Gosport
The Tales from the Sea Shanty Festival returns
on Saturday 16th May as part of the Gosport Marine Festival.

With 22 shanty groups ascending to Gosport they will be performing across 8 venues in and around the waterfront.

The performance schedule is attached and the 8 venues where you can see the shanty groups performing are:

🏴‍☠️ Timespace
🏴‍☠️ Cocklepond
🏴‍☠️ The Lightship
🏴‍☠️ The Creek
🏴‍☠️ Coffee Quarters
🏴‍☠️ Falklands Gardens
🏴‍☠️ The Boathouse
🏴‍☠️ Erasmus Wolfe

I am pleased to announce that Erasmus Wolfe one of our new venues for 2026 are an Event Partner Sponsor for the festival. Here I would like to say a big thank you to Led and his team frothier kind and generous support.
Montserrat Events
Smile Emporium

Southampton Salty Sea Dogs
Sea Gels Shanty Band
ScrimShanker Shanty
Spinnaker Shanty
East Cowes Shanty
FORCE 10 .
The Odd Wednesday Men
Beaufort Scale shanty band
Rocks N’ Groynes
Titchfield Whalers
The Solent Shanty Buoys
Steam Town Shanty Crew
The Barnacles
Not a Mermaid in Sight
C.A.S.K
Estuary Men
The Portsmouth Shantymen
Driftwood Troubadours
Not A Mermaid In Sigh
Manchoir Mutineers
Mariners Mates
The Selsey Shantymen

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