Check out our newly updated programme page for this years festival schedule!
Another great Shanty Festival in 2018! Check out the video of the action below. Many thanks to Peter Martin for compiling it.
Join us in as we embark on our seventh International Sea Shanty Festival, join in the fun, meet old and new friends, and enjoy the singing with Shanty Groups from home and abroad.
Rosses Point –Sligo’s Maritime Village on the Wild Atlantic Way.
Supported by:
Help the Festival
The Rosses Point Shanty Festival is run entirely on a voluntary basis and all profits are donated to the RNLI, the charity that saves lives at sea. We appreciate all the help we can get to aid in the ongoing running costs of the festival. To become a featured friend of the festival, and to help keep the shanty festival going, please donate €50 by clicking the button below (secured by paypal).
If you wish to donate another amount to aid in the ongoing costs and help the running of the festival, please click the button below to pay securely online via paypal. All help, no matter how little or small is greatly appreciated to keep Ireland's premier shanty festival ship-shape and seaworthy!
The Rosses Point
Shanty Festival
supports the work of
the RNLI. Sligo Bay is
one of the newest
lifeboat stations in
Ireland. Operating an
inshore B class
Atlantic 75 lifeboat it
provides search and
rescue cover for the
area between
Downpatrick Head
and Inismurray Island.
This station is classed
as a Discover station.
Shanty Offers
For some info on some of the special shanty offers we have arranged, click here!
Download the Rosses Point Shanty App below
Rosses Point – Sligo’s Maritime Village on the Wild Atlantic Way
