The Crabtown Frolic is a three-day cultural festival featuring intimate performances, presentations, workshops, social dances, and music sessions.  Located in downtown Annapolis, Maryland, it showcases unamplified performances of traditional music in 18th and 19th century spaces to explore the symbiosis of historic spaces and music.  It demonstrates for modern people the aesthetics in which our ancestors entertained themselves using the gifts of their creative genius.  

The Crabtown Frolic embraces the ethos of the Gaelic Revival—to cultivate a rich, intellectual life within Ireland’s music, language, sport, art, literature, and history—and extends the same ethos to Chesapeake culture.  It examines the Chesapeake’s extant 18th and 19th century traditions with concern for their future, and unites tradition bearers to explore the encounters that cradle our Tidewater culture.