Crabtown Frolic

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The Crabtown Frolic is a two-day traditional music festival featuring intimate performances, presentations, repertoire workshops, social dances, and music sessions. It is entirely walkable. Located in downtown Annapolis, Maryland, it showcases unamplified performances of traditional music in 18th and 19th century spaces to explore the symbiosis of historic architecture and music. It demonstrates for modern people the aesthetics in which our ancestors entertained themselves using the gifts of their creative genius.

The Crabtown Frolic embraces the ethos of the Gaelic Revival—to cultivate a rich, intellectual life within Ireland’s music, language, sport, art, literature, and history—and extends the same ethos to Chesapeake culture. It examines the Chesapeake’s extant 18th and 19th century traditions with concern for their future, and unites tradition bearers to explore the encounters that cradle our Tidewater culture.

A selection of intimate performances, presentations, workshops, and sessions will take place from 12 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, 27 September at the Hammond Harwood House, the Historic Annapolis Museum, 49 West, Old Fox Books, and Galway Bay Irish Restaurant & Pub. There will be evening music sessions from 8 to about 11 p.m.

Programming for Sunday, 28 September will take place in the garden of the William Paca House from 12 to 5 p.m. This will be an epic party full of musicians, with a bar serving beer and wine.