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April Grant

The 2024 Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival is coming soon!

Join us September 28-29, 2024, in Portsmouth, NH, for a weekend of sea songs and fun.

April writes poems, songs, and short stories, and sings traditional and original songs. Her work has been referred to as “riveting” and “playful yet sinister.”

She has sung and told stories in person at venues across New England, including the Connecticut Sea Music Festival (2022), the Blue Hill Maritime Festival (2024), the New England Folk Festival (multiple years) and the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival (2004), and via the internet to international audiences during the pandemic. Her interests include traditional and trad-adjacent songs, history, and local legends.

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April has an album!

Find YOU MUST BELIEVE ME here on Bandcamp:Art and graphic design (c) Amy Kucharik 2022

“You Must Believe Me” is on Bandcamp, go check it out. If Bandcamp doesn’t work for you, please email [email protected] to order a CD (currently $12 + shipping/handling).

If you’re looking for “Still On Patrol,” please find it here.

A Song Per Sunday: April uploaded one song per week on YouTube throughout 2023, on Sundays at noon Eastern time. All entries will be added to this playlist.

Listen to April read all of Roger Zelazny’s novel A Night In The Lonesome October on YouTube here!

Read published poems and a short story for free

Hire April to perform one of an enticing selection of shows by emailing [email protected]! Here are some of the performances on offer.