Saltash Songs & Shanties Festival celebrates the culture, heritage and environment of South East Cornwall and the Tamar Valley. The Festival presents live music in historic venues around Saltash and features superb professional performers alongside fantastic local musicians from the region’s rich amateur music scene. Events include concerts and workshops featuring jazz, folk, classical, pop and much more.

A huge thank you to our Festival patrons and funders for their support:

2023-24:
Mike Archer
Alexander Battershill
Nuria Bonet
Alison Endean
Christopher Francis
Jane Kiely
Denise Watkins

2024-25:
Alexander Battershill
Nuria Bonet
Alison Endean
Linda Mavin
Angela Payne-Hanlon
Kay Penney
Carolyn Statton
Elaine Young

Become a Festival Patron

Become a Patron of Saltash Songs & Shanties Festival and your support will:

  • Help us to make the Festival an annual event for Saltash.
  • Enable us to bring the best musicians from Cornwall and the South West to Saltash.
  • Create opportunities for children and young people to make and enjoy music.
  • Ensure that the Festival remains accessible to the whole community.

The benefits to you of becoming an individual Patron are:

Festival Patron £30 per year:

  • Advance mailing of the Festival brochure.
  • Reserved seats for all tickets that you book.
  • Listed as a Festival Patron on the Festival website.

Festival Gold Patron £150 per year:

  • The above benefits plus
  • Listed as a Gold Patron on the Festival website.
  • Your name listed as an exclusive supporter of an event of your choice from the programme.

Click HERE to become a Festival patron.

Become a Festival Sponsor

From £500 per year:

  • Business name and/or logo listed as exclusive support of the specific even of your choice on all publicity.
  • Displaying company banner or branded materials at your chosen event.
  • Advert in Festival leaflet (distributed to residential addreses in Saltash, Carkeel, St Mellion, Pillaton and Landulph and to high streets in Liskeard, Callington and Plymouth.
  • Logo on the Festival posters and banners.
  • Two free tickets to an event of your choice with reserved seating.
  • Listed as a Festival Sponsor on the website.
  • 2x credits in social media.

Other sponsorship benefits are also available, including:

  • Headline sponsorship.
  • Sponsoring a specific venue
  • Showcasing products at events.
  • Collaborating on bespoke social media posts.
  • Additional reserved seats for guests.

Email info@songsandshanties.co.uk to discuss sponsorship further.

Thank you to our Festival funders and supporters:

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Click HERE to download the Festival evaluation from 2023.

Saltash Songs & Shanties Festival supports the Keychange Movement and aims for gender equality in our events programme.

Saltash Songs & Shanties Festival is produced by Salt Arts CIC and Directed by Lindsay Endean.  
Lindsay set up Salt Arts to make things she loves with people she thinks are fab. Originally trained as a musician (viola) her arts career has taken her from orchestras in Oxford to libraries in Croydon, theatres in China and shops in Covent Garden, and more recently on to commemorations in Plymouth and music in Cornwall. High points include opening an arts venue in a former drugs factory and watching 30,000 people follow a very large dragon around Plymouth (these two things are not connected). The single low point was probably eating an insect-flour cookie in the name of Public Engagement.

Lindsay lives in Saltash, Cornwall with two children, a husband and a cat and any spare time is for sailing or playing the viola. 

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