The countdown to the Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival continues with a look at two more of the groups who will be performing in June.

Cape Cornwall Singers were formed early in 1997 in an attempt to resurrect the singing tradition in the local pubs around St Just. Once a familiar sound at weekends, and especially during St Just Feast, singing in the town had declined in recent years due mainly to the closure of the tin mines.

The first of many public appearances for the singers came in April 1997, which was followed by a guest appearance at the Tall Ships concert at Pendennis Castle in July and the Cornish Gorsedd in September of 1998. Brief television appearances, the release of their first CD/cassette tape, Our Beautiful Land, followed by their second CD, Men of Cornwall, in 2000, and local radio exposure, have kept Cape Singers in the public eye.

"Much of our success is due to the efforts of singer songwriter Harry Glasson who continues to write many of our most popular songs about Cornwall, our people and our traditions," said a spokesman. The Singers have been on many tours and in 2001 they sang at the Kernewek Lowender, the world's largest Cornish festival in Australia.

Two years later they released their third CD, Along the Shore, and that autumn they travelled to Brittany to sample some French culture. In 2014 they were invited to Allihies in the southwest of Ireland where they represented Cornwall and Cornish mining at an Ireland-wide tourism initiative called The Gathering. Baldrick’s Plan are a male trio who specialise in strong harmony singing, largely unaccompanied but, where appropriate, supplemented with guitars, mandola, fiddle and cittern. The trio have thrilled audiences throughout Cornwall and beyond, at clubs and festivals such as Perranporth Shout, St Ives September Festival, Mousehole Sea, Salt and Sails Festival and Newlyn Fish Festival.

Based in Newlyn, their repertoire includes a fine range of fishing songs, along with a good peppering of maritime and naval songs, and the odd shanty. Their combination of stunning harmonies, exciting arrangements and relaxed good humour makes them a delight for listeners wherever they perform.

The Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival will see up to 60 groups perform at venues across the town from June 17 to 19, with all the money raised going to the RNLI.