2022 Sandusky Tall Ships Festival
2022 Sandusky Tall Ships Festival (July 1-3, 2022) Join us on the shores of Lake Erie for Festival of Sail Sandusky 2022. It’s a rare chance to catch a glimpse and even step aboard some of the grandest ships of yore. Draw Events is bringing tall ships to Sandusky, Ohio. Festival of Sail Sandusky 2022 features ship tours, educational programming, food and beverage, entertainment and fun for the entire family! Maritime musical entertainment will be provided by Tom Kastle. Link to venue website.
Bristol Renaissance Faire Opens for the Season
Bristol Renaissance Faire Opens for the Season (July 9-10, 2022) The Bristol Renaissance Faire opens its 2022 season on July 9, 2022. The festival runs summer weekends through September 5, 2022. This Elizabethan-era theme park has been a host to a great number of maritime music performers over the years, including: Pint & Dale Dread Pirates of Oddwood Bounding Main Ship Shape The Jolly Rogers Tourdion The Corsairs Rambling Sailors Musical Blades The Jolly Rogers Link to BRF website.
2022 Cleveland TALL SHIPS® Festival
2022 Cleveland TALL SHIPS® Festival (July 7-10, 2022) Downtown Cleveland’s Lakefront (just north of FirstEnergy Stadium) 515 Erieside Avenue Cleveland is proud to host the return of the TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® to Cleveland’s waterfront in July of 2022. This four-day waterfront festival is a wonderful experience for families to enjoy live entertainment, historical exhibits, food, beverages and yes…board the Tall Ships Maritime musical entertainment will be provided by Tom Mason & the Blue Buccaneers and Tom Kastle. Link to venue website.
Johnny Collins Dies
Johnny Collins Dies (July 6, 2009) Johnny Collins was one of the signature voices on the maritime music scene since his beginnings in London jazz and folk clubs in 1956. He was a sought-after performer at many folk and maritime festivals. He and his friend, Jim Mageean, were cornerstone performers at the Liereliet festival in Workum for decades, their album “Coming of Age” documenting this accomplishment. He died on 6 July 2009 while on tour in Gdańsk, Poland, aged 71. Link to full article on Wikipedia.
Mutiny on the Amistad
Mutiny on the Amistad slave ship (July 2, 1839) Early in the morning of July 2, 1839, Africans on the Cuban schooner Amistad rise up against their captors, killing two crewmembers and seizing control of the ship, which had been transporting them to a life of slavery on a sugar plantation at Puerto Principe, Cuba. Link to full article on History.com
Zong Slave Ship Trial
Zong slave ship trial June 22, 1783 London: Hearing arguments in the case of the Zong, a slave ship, the Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in London states that a massacre of enslaved African “was the same as if Horses had been thrown over board” on June 22, 1783. The crew of the Zong had thrown at least 142 captive Africans into the sea, but the question before the court was not who had committed this atrocity but rather whether the lost “cargo” was covered by insurance. The trial laid bare the horror and inhumanity of the Atlantic slave trade and galvanized the nascent movement to abolish it. Link to full article on History.com
Henry Hudson Set Adrift
Henry Hudson Set Adrift by mutineers (June 22, 1611) After spending a winter trapped by ice in present-day Hudson Bay, the starving crew of the Discovery mutinies against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson, and sets him, his teenage son, and seven supporters adrift in a small, open boat. Hudson and the eight others were never seen again. Link to full article on History.com