Past gigs

The London Sea Shanty Collective singing on the Golden Hinde

The London Sea Shanty Collective sing at the Curve Garden, Dalston

NMRN / Grand Central Trains event, London KIng’s Cross Station Concourse, 11 April, 2025

Cockwood Shanty Festival, 22-23 March 2025

Worshipful Company of Barber Surgeons, City of London, 14 January 2025

Dalston London, busking for the Hackney Winter Shelter for the Homeless, 12 Dec. 2024.

Cutty Sark Shanty Festival, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 16 Nov. 2024

National Liberal Club, Trafalgar Day Celebrations, 21 October 2024

Two Fund Raisers for Medecins Sans Frontieres in Sudan and Gaza, Curve Garden, Dalston, June and September 2024, (nearly £6,000 raised – thank you everyone!)

Southwark Cathedral, Handcrafts and Mudlarking Festival, 31 August 2024

Weston-super-Mare Shanty Festival, 3 – 4 August 2024

Yarmouth (IoW) Sea Songs and Shanty Festival, 25 – 26 May 2024

Surrey Docks Farm, Spring Fair, 11 May 2024

Dalston London, busking for the Hackney Winter Shelter for the Homeless (£1253 raised -thank you Dalston!), 14 December 2023.

Third Cutty Sark Shanty Festival, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 18 November 2023

‘Alan Partridge’ Book Signing, Waterstones, Piccadilly, London. Entertaining the crowds attending Alan’s book signing event, 28 October 2023

Classic FM, UK, Recording with Alexander Armstrong as part of Classic FM’s fundraiser, ‘Make Some Noise’,  20 October 2023

Harwich Sea Shanty Festival, 14 October 2023

Zingst International Shanty Festival, Germany, invited as special guests to celebrate the festival’s 25th Aniversary, 9 – 10 September 2023

Festival du Chant de Marin en Bretagne, Paimpol, France, Nine gigs in three days at this stunning International festival, 3 -6 August 2023

St Vedast Church and Ye Olde Watling pub, London, bringing the Wrenathon celebration of the 300th anniversary of Christopher Wren’s death, 24 June 2023

Royal Docks Festival, London, with the Britannia Village Primary School, celebrating  the Lascar community and culture, 27 May 2023

Australian High Commission, London, entertaining at the Naval Advisors’ Association annual formal dinner. 31.1.23

Dalston London, busking for the Hackney Winter Shelter for the Homeless, 15 December 2022

Cutty Sark, National Maritime Museum, London, shanties and workshop as part of their 2nd Sea Shanty Festival 19 November 2022

Southwark Cathedral, London, ‘Earth Shanties’ as part of Gaia Festival and exhibition,  29 October 2022

The London Marathon, Canary Wharf, supporting RNLI’s runners and fundraisers, 2 October 2022

South Dock Marina, London, Moonlit Mudlark with the Thames Festival Trust, 24 September 2022

Natural History Museum, London, ‘Challenger 150’ International Conference, 7 September 2022

Hampton Court Palace, RNLI Awards Ceremonies, 2, 3 September, and 27 November 2022

St Andrew’s Church, fundraiser for St. Anne’s Care Home with Morris Choir, 24 July 2022

National Maritime Museum, London, 11 June 2022

Fire in the Mountain, Wales, 2-6 June 2022

Hull Minster, singing up a thirst at the Hull Beer Festival, 2022

Wrecking Ball, Hull, Supported a perfomance of Chris Wilson’s ‘Earl de Grey’ Shanty Folk Opera by Wilberforce College students and the Hull Folk Collective. April 2022

Curve Garden, Dalston, A Sea Shanty Fundraiser for UNHCR in solidarity with all refugees. (£1,503 raised!), April 2022

Foundling Museum, London, Performance and Workshop 2022

Tower of London, Winter Festival of Song 2021

London Book Launch of “A Challenger’s Song” 2021

Trinity House, London Guest performance at the Annual Longstone Dinner 2021

London, First Shanty Festival on the Cutty Sark 2021

Rotherhithe ‘Bermondsey Welcomes Refugees’ 2021

Cody Dock, London 2021

London The Earl de Grey folk opera 2020

Broadstairs Folk Week 2019
London Totally Thames 2019 and 2020
Ireland Fastnet Maritime and Folk Festival 2018
British Library An Interlude for James Cook The Voyages 2018
Hull Folk and Maritime Festival 2017 & 2018
The Golden Hinde, London Songs of the Sea
Ireland Cleggan and Claddaghduff Festival of the Sea 2018
British Museum Moving Stories – a Refugee Week special event 2018
Mycenae House, London A Festival of Shanties and Songs of the Sea

Jim Radford sings with the London Sea Shanty Collective at Mycenae House, GreenwichPlus Solstice Shorts Festival 2019 • Harwich International Shanty Festival 2017 & 2018 • Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival 2017 & 2018 • Hull Folk and Maritime Festival 2017 & 2018 • The Measuring of the Mayflower, Rotherhithe 2018 • Whitby Folk Week 2018 • Hull Pride 2017 • London Design Festival 2017 • Story Jam: Rough Crossings • Folk of the Wood and many more