Celeste Bernardo

Celeste Bernardo worked as an interpreter, educator, and manager for twenty-five years at maritime sites in New York, Connecticut, California, and Massachusetts. Along the way, she collected songs to interpret people’s relationship with the sea. Accompanying herself on the anglo concertina, guitar, or 5-string banjo, her repertoire includes sea chanteys and traditional songs of the sea. She holds a Master’s degree in history from Northeastern University and is a graduate of Mystic Seaport’s Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies. She can be heard on recordings of Mystic Seaport Museum’s 22nd, 25th, 32nd and 40th Sea Music Festivals.

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