Overview
For several years now, the Harbour Festival has featured a variety of performances by folk and shanty choirs from both home and abroad on Friday and Saturday afternoons. In 2025, these will take place on Friday 30 May and Saturday 31 May.
Across six stages, you can enjoy traditional and modern sea shanties in many languages about the long wait, booze, the return of the fisherman, the harsh life at sea for both fishermen and their wives, and tales about forbidden and lost loves.
On Friday evening, the mirror tent will set the scene for a cozy sing-along with several of the participating groups. On Saturday evening, each shanty choir will perform in the festival tent, joining their forces in a lively jam session with all choirs in front of a packed audience
Blankenberge is a seaside municipality and city in the Belgian province of West Flanders and comprises the town of Blankenberge proper and the settlement of Uitkerke. On 1 December 2014, Blankenberge had a total population of just under 2,000 people. Once a fishing port, it now accommodates some 1,000 pleasure boats.