Building upon our desire to continue to improve on the success of the Sea Ilfracombe Maritime Festival, in 2022 we were very proud to present what was undoubtedly one of our most popular musical lines up to date but for 2023 we are looking to surpass this with a fantastic line up of musical acts from all genres, styles & tastes.
And all this for FREE!

Saturday 2nd September
Music starts at 1230 Curfew 2200
The Fullabrook Stage & The TDK Stage
in association with JME Scaffolding
Ropery Road
Sunday 3rd September
Music starts at 1200 Curfew 1800
The Fullabrook Stage & The TDK Stage
in association with JME Scaffolding
Ropery Road
As with all things “live” artists and timings are subject to change, so on the day please keep an eye out for any updates that will be announced on the festival site as necessary.
Rewind to 2022, 2021, 2019 and 2018!
2022 saw the two stage set up continue, which despite a few showers continued to be a success. The shanty tones of Anchors Aweigh and Press Gang were very well received with the return of Gypfunk and a festival 1st appearance from The Greater Good getting people up and dancing. Both Basils Blues Band and The Nomads packed the front of stage with fantastic performances ensuring everyone went home happy.

2021 saw a change in the stage set up as things were moved from within the huge marquee to our twin outdoor staging, less time between band changes equaled more music! Again a great mix of music with Gypfunk on the Sunday bringing a huge smile to eveyone’s faces after having been truly woken up by some hard rock courtesy of Highway.

2019 featued the ever popular sea shanty bands (before they even became a worldwide phenomenon) but an eclectic mix of magical acts saw The Rivals, Such & Vincent, Samba and Sonic Fusion play awesome sets to a marquee full of happy dancing festival-goers of all ages

2018 saw not only the return of the popular sea shanty bands but an eclectic mix ranging from blues, rock, folk, popular acoustic, pop, rock & roll, soul, jazz funk and ska.
Saturday night l2018 saw The Liquidators play to a packed marquee of ska fans whilst folk rock duo Sound of the Sirens closed the festival with an amazing set on Sunday evening.
Sound of the Sirens Live @ Sea Ilfracombe 2018
