Overview
The Festival of Sailor Song and Music from the Seas of the World takes place every 2 years on the quays of Paimpol, (Côtes d’Armor, Brittany)
The Festival du Chant de Marin – Paimpol team have presented the poster of the next, 2027 edition of the Festival.
There is no other event in the world that programs so many groups and artists dedicated to this genre: more than 160 in 2025, spread across stages and quays. For groups who would like to try their luck for 2027 (August 6, 7, and 8) it’s not too late. You just need to send an application email to contact@paimpol-festival.bzh by attaching a short presentation of the group and a few video links…
Since its creation in 1989, the Festival du Chant de Marin has already taken you on a journey, from Africa to Asia, to America, from Celtic to the Balkans, from the South to the islands, and this year to Italy… For its sixteenth edition (August 8, 9 and 10, 2025), was …
…“DESTINATION QUEBEC!”
For almost twenty years, special ties have been forged between Quebec, the friends of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli on the St. Lawrence River and the Festival du Chant de Marin de Paimpol, which at each of its editions welcomes groups from “over there”. For 2025, the organizers of the Paimpol Festival have decided to put a spotlight on the (rich) artistic and maritime creation of Quebec. Not to mention the “first nations” who populated the territory before the arrival of the first settlers, often of Breton, Basque or Norman origin…
But, as usual, the festival will not forbid itself any deviation, any escapade: musical discoveries, desires from here and elsewhere will always make the singularity of the Paimpol festival. Once again, the Festival du Chant de Marin will be dedicated to travel, dreams and escape, to encounters, to a change of scenery, combined with the promotion of the Breton territory, language and culture closely intertwined. Roots, openness and of course, good humor … will once again be there!
The programme includes world music, sea shanties, Breton music, festoù-noz, street and quayside music – bagadoù, batucada, fanfares… Not forgetting the exhibitions, activities for young people, tastings of local products and some two hundred heritage boats, both actors and magnificent decor of the festival.
Pierre Morvan
President of the Sea Shanty Festival