For advance tickets, email breezekist@hotmail.com, with “Castlebay” in the subject line. Checks or money orders should have “Castlebay” on the memo line and be payable to Maine’s First Ship, P.O. Box 231, Bath, ME 04530; these tickets will be picked up at the door.

The concert will celebrate the life and times of the builders and sailors of Virginia, Maine's First Ship. The musicians will dress in Renaissance attire and concert goers are encouraged to wear their finest period or pirate garb. Prizes will be awarded for various costume categories, best 17th century famous male and female, best pirate, most authentic costume and more. Tom Kastle

Tom Kastle is a singer, songwriter, sailor and teller of tales who has performed throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and New Zealand. He has one foot in the modern singer/songwriter world and the other planted in the traditional maritime realm where he is a shanty and ballad singer and a tall ship captain. He is a co-director of the Chicago Maritime Festival, a faculty member of the Old Town School of Folk Music, and the Narrator (with occasional singing roles) for the Candid Concert Opera Company.