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CT Sea Music Festival

This family-friendly weekend includes a Symposium on the Music of the Sea, free day-time workshops and concerts featuring local, regional, and international maritime performers, a family stage, demonstrations of sailor skills, sails on the Connecticut River, a Sunday morning revival-style hymn sing, and late night Chantey Sings in the historic Griswold Inn and the Essex Corinthian Yacht Club. Main stage evening concerts are ticketed events. Stroll Main Street, Essex with ice cream in hand and hear sea chanteys and maritime music from all over the world!