Schooner Fare is a local Maine folk band, consisting of the late Tom Rowe (vocals, bass guitar, tin whistle), Steve Romanoff (vocals, six and twelve-string guitar, five-string banjo), and Chuck Romanoff (vocals, twelve-string guitar, tenor banjo). Schooner Fare plays primarily original maritime, socially conscious, and traditional folk music. They play throughout Maine and North America, and their songs are played by radio stations and satellite radio worldwide.
Famous quotes containing the words schooner and/or fare:
“It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed the wintry sea;
And the skipper had taken his little daughter,
To bear him company.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
“He was a man of Spartan habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his diet at your table, excusing himself by saying that he must eat sparingly and fare hard, as became a soldier, or one who was fitting himself for difficult enterprises, a life of exposure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)