Schedule Of Events

10AM – 6PM: Meet sea farmers & eat oysters, learn to shuck, shop with the vendors & food trucks, kids can make a craft or two to take home, and find out more about seaworthy organizations. L.L.Bean Discovery Park & Mallard Parking Lot behind Freeport Oyster Bar

10AM – 11:15AM: Live Music by Shank Painters. Shank Painters are a pirate band from the shores of Portland, ME, featuring sea shanties, tavern songs, and music which will be sure to get you ready to plunder and pillage as you please! FMI: https://www.shankpainters.com/ Free. L.L.Bean Discovery Park Stage

10AM – 12:00PM: Live Music by Lee Stearns. Lee has played music as far away as Japan to California, Hawaii, Florida, Virginia, Minnesota, and New Jersey. His act is multi genre including songs he likes or songs that he has written. So from very contemporary songs to older songs from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Although he has written over 30 songs, Lee plays mostly covers of songs people know well and like. Lee’s shows are acoustic/electric. FMI: https://www.facebook.com/leestearnsmusic/ Free. Mallard Lot Stage (behind Lobster Cooker)

11:30AM-1:30PM: Seacoast Tours of Freeport, South Freeport. Exclusive boat tour aboard the Pamela B to the Mere Point Oyster Company, Maine’s second-largest oyster farm! Delight in fresh, delicious oysters while enjoying a refreshing local beer or wine as you learn about oyster farming and marine conservation. Reservations required, book online

11:45AM – 1PM: Live Music by Paddy Mills. Paddy Mills is an award-winning folk singer/songwriter whose songs are as salty as the Maine coast he calls home. Whether at a coffee house, Festival, folk club or the corner of a bar, Paddy has a way of making listeners feel like they’re sitting in a living room listening to the telling of old familiar stories about their own family and friends. As a Folk Singer, Paddy maintains an extensive repertoire of Irish, American, Maritime, Nicaraguan and Labor folk songs. His knowledge of and respect for traditional music is reflected is his own writing. FMI: https://paddymills.com/ Free. L.L.Bean Discovery Park Stage

12:30PM – 1:15PM: Live Music by Wes Covey. Wes Covey is the multi-instrumentalist frontman of experimental ambient collective The Ten Thousand Things (sacredmusick.bandcamp.com). When not bending his strings into soundscape narratives, Covey is a fingerpicking folksinger. The Serpent Eats His Tail is his first solo acoustic album, collecting favorite covers, instrumentals and songs written over the past dozen years. His second solo album is due out this year. FMI: https://www.facebook.com/WesCoveySongs  Free. Mallard Lot Stage (behind Lobster Cooker)

1:30PM – 2:45PM: Live Music by The Oystermen. The Oystermen have been collecting and performing Downeast fiddle tunes, humorous stories, and original songs from Maine, Quebec, and the Maritimes for half a century. Smokey McKeen, Carter Newell, and Eric Rolfson play old-time dance tunes on push-button accordion, fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and bass; sing songs of work, love, strife, and achievement from the vast repertoire of American folk history; and teach and call regional dances representing multi-cultural traditions. When not performing, Carter, Smokey & Eric all raise oysters on the Damariscotta River. Free. L.L.Bean Discovery Park Stage

1:45PM – 2:30PM: Live Music by John Sayles. John Sayles is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer who calls Portland home. John has been an avid home recorder since the 1990s and has been active in the music scene in and around Portland over the past decade, playing frequently at the Portland Food Co-op as well as at local coffee shops and area farmers’ markets. John gigs in Freeport often, too, most recently last month as part of Meetinghouse Arts’ “Music in the Parks” series. John’s solo recordings as The Franklin Farm are available via Bandcamp as well as through Spotify and other streaming services. The Franklin Farms’ most recent album, Always From Away, was released in August 2023. FMI: https://www.facebook.com/thefranklinfarm Free. Mallard Lot Stage (behind Lobster Cooker)

2:30PM-4:30PM: Seacoast Tours of Freeport, South Freeport. Exclusive boat tour aboard the Pamela B to the Mere Point Oyster Company, Maine’s second-largest oyster farm! Delight in fresh, delicious oysters while enjoying a refreshing local beer or wine as you learn about oyster farming and marine conservation.

3PM: Oyster of the Year awards ceremony.  Emceed by sustainable seafood expert, cookbook author and Freeport resident Barton Seaver.  L.L.Bean Discovery Park stage.

3PM – 3:45PM: Live Music by Anna Jones.  Anna Jones is the Executive Director at The Midcoast Community Chorus and the music business manager and digital marketing consultant for the high echelon musical icons Sharon Robinson and Gordon Bok. Anna is currently the guitar player and contralto voice in the band “The Mermaids“, who we hope will play the Festival in 2026! FMI: https://annajones.com/  Free. Mallard Lot Stage (behind Lobster Cooker)

3:15PM – 4:30PM: Live Music by Roll & Go. Roll & Go is a Downeast sea music group based in Portland, Maine. They bring the great days of sail to vivid life in sea shanties and fo’c’sle songs, in acapella harmony or with banjo, guitar, penny whistle, washtub bass, and concertina accompaniment. FMI: https://www.rollandgoseasongs.com/  Free. L.L.Bean Discovery Park Stage

4:15PM – 5PM: Live Music by Becky Krill. American singer-songwriter and producer Becky Krill has concocted a sound all her own, delivering soulful vocals over warm, nostalgic and inspired compositions. Her approach to songwriting? Classic and unquestionably folk. Inspired by a wide-range of influences including Ani Difranco, The Rolling Stones, Brandi Carlile and The Temptations, Becky released her self-produced debut album Little Girl in 2021 and is gearing up for her sophomore release later this year. FMI: beckykrill.com.  Free. Mallard Lot Stage (behind Lobster Cooker)

5PM – 6PM: Music and Movement with Uprise Hot Yoga + Dance. Uprise is more than your typical yoga studio. They combine killer music and movement for a fitness experience you won’t soon forget.  FMI: hotyogamaine.com  Free. L.L.Bean Discovery Park Stage

5:30PM – 6PM: Live Music by Trisha Mason. An up-and-coming musician, songwriting, recording artist located in Rockland, Maine. Her love for music was cultivated from a young age, she started writing songs at 14 and the road has been paved with lyrics ever since. Strongest influences included songwriters like: Jewel, Alanis Morissette, Green Day, Bob Dylan, Shania Twain, Brandi Carlisle, Flogging Molly and Pink. Trisha takes her influences a step further and dives into her ethnic roots cultivating an artist blend of Irish Punk with a Portuguese flare. Since starting her musical endeavors Trisha Mason has independently produced two full length albums. “Worse or Better” 2012 and “RedSky” 2016. Recently, Trisha released “Red Door Traveler” 2024 a tribute to a song writing challenge. After a life changing move mid 2020, Trisha steps back into multiple studios and sets her sails to incorporate touring. FMI: https://artistecard.com/TrishaMason Free. Mallard Lot Stage (behind Lobster Cooker)

6PM: Freeport Oyster Bar. 43 Main St. Festival After Hours.