Cutty Sark's Sea Shanty Festival is back! Come and enjoy joyful maritime music in celebration of the tea clipper's 157th birthday.
The Sea Shanty Festival features the vocal talents of bands and artists from across the UK and beyond. Get ready for a unique day of fun and festivity.
To get an idea of how much fun last year's festival was, watch the video below.
The 2026 Sea Shanty Festival timetable will be as follows.
There are two opportunities to see the Festival programme – a morning session and an afternoon session. You can arrive in the morning and stay all day if you wish; alternatively, if you'd prefer you can book 10am tickets or 2pm tickets and see all the performances in half a day.
The Silver Darlings are an all-female sea shanty crew from Southend-on-Sea in Essex. They sing shanties, songs of the sea and ditties nautical.