Chicago Maritime Festival

Now in its 13^th year, The Chicago Maritime Festival is moving to the Old Town School of Folk Music and The Grafton Pub for full nautical festivities on April 18, 2015. The festival will feature the music of the Great Lakes and the seas beyond as well as workshops and exhibits on maritime history, shipwrecks and underwater archeology, marlinespike seamanship (fancy knots), romantic songs and bawdy ballads plus classes at the Old Town School and an outreach program all around the Chicago area. The Festival offers the most diverse maritime program in the Great Lakes.