List of maritime music performers

This is a list of performers who focus on maritime music or who have at some point made notable contributions to that genre.

Traditional-style performers

 * Jerry Bryant, singer-songwriter from Maine, also performs historical shanties in a traditional style.
 * David Coffin, from Gloucester, Massachusetts, leader of Revels music group in Cambridge.
 * Johnny Collins, a modern-day shantyman (1938–2009)
 * Forebitter, group featuring performers associated with the Mystic Seaport Museum
 * Stan Hugill, "Last Working Shantyman" (1906–1992)
 * The Idlers, an all-male a cappella shanty group at the United States Coast Guard Academy (1957–present)
 * The Johnson Girls, an all-female shanty group from New York
 * Tom and Chris Kastle, singer-songwriters from Chicago, also perform historical shanties in a traditional style
 * Tom Lewis, Canadian singer-songwriter, also performs historical shanties in a traditional style
 * Northern Neck Shanty Singers, a menhaden shanty group, some of whom learned the songs as work songs on fishing boats when they were young men
 * Roberts and Barrand, proponents of traditional British song from New York and New England (1969-)
 * Salty Walt & the Rattlin' Ratlines, from San Francisco

Folk music-style performers

 * Peter Bellamy, British folk singer; wrote "Roll Down" (aka "Transports Shanty") (1944-1981)
 * Debra Cowan, sea music performer from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
 * Roger McGuinn, from Chicago
 * William Pint and Felicia Dale, from Seattle
 * Bob Roberts, British Merchant Seaman and folk singer (1907–1982)
 * Stan Rogers, Canadian performer; wrote "Barrett's Privateers" (1949–1983)
 * Cyril Tawney, British performer (1930–2005)
 * John Townley, also known for opening the first 12-track recording studio in New York, Apostolic Recording Studio
 * Bob Zentz
 * Stompin' Tom Connors
 * Alan Mills, Canadian performer, folk singer, writer and actor, best known for multiple recording on Folkways Records including "Songs of the Sea" recorded in 1959 (1913-1977)

Contemporary-style performers

 * Banana Boat, an a cappella sextet from Poland performing "neo-shanties" as well as traditional sea-shanties in contemporary arrangements
 * Bounding Main, an a cappella quintet based near Kenosha, Wisconsin
 * Captain Bogg and Salty, a pirate-themed rock band which performs many traditional shanties, as well as writing several of their own
 * Great Big Sea, Canadian band performing some shanties in traditional style