Whilst the boats are 'the jewels in the crown' of the festival, the music, song and dance provide a setting for them to shine. During the festival there will be opportunities to hear a number of international, national and local musicians and singers in a variety of concerts, ceilidhs and sessions.

Guests include: Alastair McDonald, Bob Fox, Benny Graham, Lyra Celtica, Borders Young Fiddles, Archie Fisher, Graeme Gass, Colin McNabb, Bobby Robb, The Podlies, The Eyemouth Pipe Band, Reston All Brass & Woodwind, The Tyneside Maritime Chorus, Reign, Lynn Tocker, Matt Seattle, Chris Jones, Heather Heywood, The Music Gallery Collective, Clarty Cloot, The Eyemouth Festival Allstar Ceilidh Band and more.

Our main concert venue is the Eyemouth United Congregational Church. There is a concert each evening of the festival where you will be able to hear great music in a wonderful acoustic setting.

We have fine representatives of Scotland's musical traditions including Alasdair McDonald, Archie Fisher, Borders Young Fiddles and border piper Matt Seattle. We have a spectacular 'celtic band', Lyra Celtica and a number of highly gifted instrumentalists including ace accordion player Lynn Tocker and Border Piper Matt Seattle.

We have ceilidh music from Clarty Clout and The Eyemouth Festival Allstar Ceilidh Band. All these musicians, and more, will also be playing in sessions throughout the town.

During the day the music will be a background to activities on the water. Each evening we have 'Music in the Square', an hour of entertainment the Auld Kirk Square which builds on the regular 'Something Scottish' presentations that take place in Eyemouth each Friday evening during the summer.

For those who prefer an indoor concert setting there will be concerts each evening in the EU Congregational Church and later in the evening sessions in various places. On the Friday evening you will be able to sample the delights of a typical Scottish Village Hall Ceilidh in the nearby village of Coldingham, or join us on the Saturday for a festival ceilidh in the Old Fishmarket.

ARCHIE FISHER
Archie Fisher was born in Glasgow in 1939, the only son in a family of seven, and now lives in the Scottish Borderlands. He is one of the most distinctive voices in Scotland with a guitar style to match in both traditional and contemporary song. He has presented Radio Scotland's weekly 'Travelling Folk' programme since 1983

Borders Young Fiddles
The band was formed to play with Border Fiddler Jimmy Nagle at his recital at the annual Scots Fiddle Festival - Fiddle '99. The following year Borders Young Fiddles played a recital of their own. Their repertoire includes a range of traditional music relating to the Borders as well as their own original tunes, and reflects some of the style inflections of well known Borders fiddlers of the recent past such as Tom Hughes and Bob Hobkirk. The members of Borders Young Fiddles come from Birgham, Coldstream, Kelso and Lauder.

Bob Fox
Bob Fox is regarded as one of the finest voices of the British Folk Revival. In the year 2000 Bob celebrated 25 years of singing folk songs professionally working solo, with a number of bands, and regularly with Benny Graham. In 2004 Bob was a BBC Folk Singer of the Year nominee.

Benny Graham
Benny Graham served his musical apprenticeship in the folksong clubs of North East England. There was no better place in the late 60's for a young singer to develop a love of the vast musical culture of the North East which takes in rural songs, Tyneside Music Hall and the music which grew from the heavy industries of coal, steel and ship building. An opportunity to join one of Tyneside's premier theatre companies in what is now the Newcastle Playhouse provided a change of direction and enabled Benny to work with company directors Gareth Morgan and Michael Bogdanov. Since then several companies have used Benny as a singer, actor, songwriter and also Stage and Production Manager.

THE TYNESIDE MARITIME CHORUS
A mixed voice chorus which Benny Graham put together for the 1993 Tallships race and which continues to the present day.