Who is Downs East?

Born and raised along the Washington County coast, Downs East has been hauling traps and making music his whole life. His songs aren't about Maine — they are Maine. The lobster pots, the minivans, the blueberry fields, the sweet smell of a Downeast summer — it's all in there.

Album: Downeast Royalty — out now.
New single: Queen of Machias.

Downs East standing on a dock, wearing a Maine baseball cap and red flannel, holding an acoustic guitar
The man himself

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Latest: Queen of Machias

A hard-driving new single. Machias, Maine — the queen of the Washington County coast. Fierce, proud, and entirely Downeast.

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Stop-motion clay diorama scene from the Blue Tarp Flag, Downeast Royalty by Downs East
Downeast Royalty

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Downeast Territory

Campo- bello Blue Hill Bay Frenchman Bay Narraguagus Bay Pleasant Bay Machias Bay Cobscook Bay Passamaquoddy Atlantic Ocean N.B. Canada Rte 1 1A Ellsworth Bar Harbor (Mt Desert Island) Schoodic Cherryfield Milbridge Addison Jonesport Beals Columbia Falls Machias Machiasport Cutler Bold Coast Lubec Eastport ~ blueberry barrens ~ N
Ma holding baby Downs in a farmhouse kitchen, vintage 1970s photograph
Ma & the baby
Downs East as a kid at the mudflats, Downeast Maine late 1980s
Low tide crew

"If you ain't from here, you're from away. But if you've ever hauled a trap or picked a blueberry in the August sun, you already know what this music is about."

— Downs East