List of maritime music performers

Traditional-style performers

• Jerry Bryant, singer-songwriter from Maine, also performs historical shanties in a traditional style.
• Johnny Collins, a modern-day shantyman
• Forebitter, group featuring performers associated with the Mystic Seaport Museum
• Stan Hugill, "Last Working Shantyman"
• The Idlers, an all-male a cappella shanty group at the United States Coast Guard Academy
• The Johnson Girls, an all-female shanty group from New York
• Tom and Chris Kastle, singer-songwriters from Chicago, also perform historical shanties in a traditional style
• Tom Lewis, Canadian singer-songwriter, also performs historical shanties in a traditional style
• Northern Neck Shanty Singers, a menhaden shanty group, some of whom learned the songs as work songs on fishing boats when they were young men
• Roberts and Barrand, proponents of traditional British song from New York and New England
• Salty Walt & the Rattlin' Ratlines, from San Francisco

  Folk music-style performers

• Peter Bellamy, British folk singer; wrote "Roll Down"
• Debra Cowan, sea music performer from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
• Roger McGuinn, from Chicago
• William Pint and Felicia Dale, from Seattle
• Bob Roberts, British Merchant Seaman and folk singer
• Stan Rogers, Canadian performer; wrote "Barrett's Privateers"
• Cyril Tawney, British performer
• John Townley, also known for opening the first 12-track recording studio in New York, Apostolic Studios
• Bob Zentz
• Stompin' Tom Connors

  Contemporary-style performers

• Banana Boat, an a cappella sextet from Poland performing "neo-shanties" as well as traditional sea-shanties in contemporary arrangements
• Bounding Main, an a cappella quintet based near Kenosha, Wisconsin
• Captain Bogg and Salty, a pirate-themed rock band which performs many traditional shanties, as well as writing several of their own
• Great Big Sea, Canadian band performing some shanties in traditional style