Performances

Mark Alan Lovewell performed a sea chantey at the Beach Road Music Festival on Martha’s Vineyard on Friday, August 9, 2019. He opened for the showing of the movie Jaws. The Cape Cod [...]

Folksinger and storyteller Mark Alan Lovewell performs for preschool-aged children at the West Tisbury public library on Martha’s Vineyard. This is but a short nine-minute excerpt of the [...]

You’ve heard his CDs, you’ve heard him on the radio. Now see him live. This is part three of a three-part, one-hour performance before a live audience, recorded on Martha’s [...]

You’ve heard his CDs, you’ve heard him on the radio. Now see him live. This is part two of a three-part, one-hour performance before a live audience, recorded on Martha’s [...]

You’ve heard his CDs, you’ve heard him on the radio. Now see him live. This is part one of a three-part, one-hour performance before a live audience, recorded on Martha’s [...]

Mark Alan Lovewell is a singer of sea chanties and folk songs. He is a storyteller living on Martha’s Vineyard.

Maritime stories and sea songs belong together. Here is a video about the popular squid fishery, told in story and song by a folksinger from Martha’s Vineyard. “You may not eat squid, [...]

Sea Chanties were song by sailors in the day when ships were powered by the wind and the might of hardworking men. This song Leave Her Johnny Leave Her isn’t about a man leaving a woman. [...]

On Saturday, February 24, 2018, Mark Alan Lovewell performed on stage in Astoria, Oregon. He was one of many participating in the 21st annual FisherPoets Gathering. This is a new song called [...]

Mark Lovewell Performs at Oak Bluffs School Library For Young Students Folksinger and storyteller Mark Lovewell took first-grade students on an exciting, 19th-century whaling expedition through [...]