Schooner Fare performs primarily original maritime and traditional folk music.
[1][2] Steve Romanoff earned a Ph.D. in humanities at New York University and taught at both high school and college level.
Rowe majored in music, and was a high school band conductor and choral director.
[2] Rowe and the Romanoffs were members of a folk-rock bar band that split up because of differences in musical direction.
[6] Approximately a third of Schooner Fare's annual performances have been fund-raising concerts on behalf of nonprofit organizations.
[7] On their 1989 album, Classic Schooner Fare, the group was accompanied by the Portland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mike Braz who also wrote the orchestral arrangements.
[7] Schooner Fare has its own record label, Outer Green Music Company, established in 1984, which publishes their albums.