William Pint and Felicia Dale (often billed as Pint & Dale), are folk musicians based in Seattle. Known primarily for nautical music and sea chanties, they are among the best-known performers in that genre in the United States. Their albums have been favorably reviewed in Dirty Linen magazine, Sing Out!

Sing Out!

Sing Out! is a quarterly journal of folk music and folk songs that has been published since May 1950.-Background:Sing Out! is the primary publication of the tax exempt, not-for-profit, educational corporation of the same name...

Magazine, and Folk Roots magazine. They tour regularly in the UK as well as the United States and have also performed in The Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Estonia. Between 1988 and 1991 they performed with Canadian performer Tom Lewis

Tom Lewis (songwriter)

Tom Lewis is a British singer and writer of nautical songs.-Biography:Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and grew up in Gloucester, England...

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Felicia Dale, born January 1, 1958, grew up on Vashon Island

Vashon Island

Vashon is a census-designated place in King County, Washington, United States. It covers an island alternately called Vashon Island or Vashon-Maury Island, the largest island in Puget Sound south of Admiralty Inlet. The population was 10,624 at the 2010 census. At , it is about 60 percent larger...

 in Puget Sound

Puget Sound

Puget Sound is a sound in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and one minor connection to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Pacific Ocean — Admiralty Inlet being the major connection and...

. Her primary instrument is the hurdy-gurdy. She has been performing professionally since she was sixteen years old. She is also a published short-story author with stories included in the anthologies New Amazons (ISBN 0-88677-887-5) and Warrior Princesses (ISBN 0-88677-783-6).

William Pint, born December 20, 1953, grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

. His primary instruments are the guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

 and mandola

Mandola

The mandola or tenor mandola is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola , a fifth lower than a mandolin...

. In the 1970's he was a member of the acoustic folk group "Silmaril" and recorded "Given Time or the Several Roads" which has recently been re-released as "Voyage of the Icarus" by Locust Records. He moved to Seattle in 1977 where he was a member of the bands "Morrigan" and "Ellipsis," as well as a brief stint in the humour-oriented band "What's All This, Then!" Morrigan was recorded by "Folkways Records" in 1979 and Ellipsis by "Flying Fish Records" in 1984.

Discography

• Port of Dreams
• Making Waves (with Tom Lewis)
• Hearts of Gold (Waterbug label)
• Round the Corner (Waterbug label)
• When I See Winter Return (Waterbug label)
• Hartwell Horn (Waterbug label)
• White Horses (Waterbug label)
• Seven Seas (Waterbug label)
• The Set of the Sail (Waterbug label)