Rum. Cleavage. Pubcrawls. YARRRR!
15Nov2017
I have a confession to make. I was drunk under a barrel when Ye Olde Mark Knopfler released his album Privateering in 2012. In my defense it was a rather large barrel and I was a fair bit turned around. Still, I think it’s worth backtracking to
22Sep2017
PiratePalooza #13 begins tomorrow and there’s just a bit more you need to know about our final secret final stop, where the world famous PiratePalooza Pubsing begins (immediately on the heels of the world famous PiratePalooza Pubcrawl) – please be sure to share this information with your mates. The location is called “Communion” and you’ll… Continue reading Final Stop of 2017 Pubcrawl: Notes About Communion
30May2017
There’s an unofficial tradition among the cast at the Georgia Renaissance Festival that Memorial Day is observed as a “prank day” for tweaking costumes, characters, storylines, and songs ever so slightly as to entertain each other in order to survive the final leg of a brutal 3-day run. These minor alterations usually go unnoticed by patrons of the festival, but they provide the… Continue reading Maui Shocks Festival Crowd
13May2017
As I was recently polishing off a pint of ale I was reminded of a time many years ago when the minstrel group Wine Woman & Song would regale us with an old favorite, The Barley Mow, during pub sing at the Brewer’s Pub at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. With a bit of time on my… Continue reading The Compleat Barley Mow
10May2017
Yours truly, Captain Drew, was lucky enough to secure an invitation to an exclusive industry launch party for the fifth album by Landloch’d, a duo with a penchant for whiskey and sheep. This latest album is clearly their classiest one yet because it features the band’s mascot Delilah wielding a trident with a heart impaled on its tines, surrounded by a… Continue reading Landloch’d Releases The Devil’s Own Invention
26May2016
Last weekend I wandered through the royal court at the Georgia Renaissance Festival and happened upon Rivka Levin of Three Quarter Ale fame playing her harp and singing music from her latest album (a copy of which I purchased after the performance). Rivka’s skill at the harp is well known to regulars of the festival… Continue reading Levin Delivers Exquisite New Album La Luminosa
03Oct2015
This summer Lady Prudence announced her intention to launch a new album and it came as no surprise that her Kickstarter goal was essentially doubled. I found a few spare groats under the cage of Sir Rocko, my ground parrot, and promptly dropped them in the post to the Lady’s attention, care of somewhere on… Continue reading All’s Faire is Splendid Listening
15Sep2015
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Tommy and Foe’s friendship, but people who know them would swear the two have been friends for several lifetimes. They met briefly at DragonCon through their mutual friend, Wade Finch, but got to know each other much better by spending a few hours discussing costumes at Foe’s first… Continue reading Pogue Mahone at PiratePalooza!
14Sep2015
The first two attempts to interview this singing group did not go as planned, and the third interview was an absolute disaster. The fourth interview was cancelled due to a lack of rum, and the fifth interview resulted in a fire that threatened to engulf half of Brest. The sixth interview attempt should never be mentioned in polite… Continue reading Curvy, Scurvy, and Purvy at PiratePalooza!
14Sep2015
In 2004 Julia McPeek Campbell & Ian O’Donnell met at the North Georgia Celtic Festival where Ian had been performing solo for a couple of years. Julia was with the Border Collies at the time and the two musicians hit it off immediately and began playing together soon thereafter. Julia’s driving fiddle paired well with… Continue reading Toucan Dubh at PiratePalooza!
14Sep2015
The Tenpenny Travelers first met around the turn of the century at Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) meets, where they provided live music for dances. By 2005 their group had gone legit and could be found performing at the King’s Gate at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. This brief period as “classy instrumentalists” for the quality would… Continue reading Tenpenny Travelers at PiratePalooza!
11Sep2015
It was a dark and stormy night in 1712… make that 2012… when the band known as Linen Brocade first assembled in response to a plea from their fanboy, Captain Drew, to make an appearance at the PiratePalooza™ Pub Sing…
11Sep2015
Steve Wright and Ed Rigel first met sometime around 2008, at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. Both men were musicians, but would not play together until 2011 when Ed, learning that his current bandmate had a gig that conflicted for that year’s PiratePalooza™, reached out to Steve to see if he was interested in putting something… Continue reading LandLoch’d at PiratePalooza!
11Sep2015
Ariana Pellayle and Rosemary Quench (better known as Becky Cormier Finch and Rivka Levin Carroll) first met at the Georgia Renaissance Festival in the Spring of 1996, and five years later they began singing together. Their first collaboration was in a band called Stone Soup, which played at the Georgia festival’s stage at the Brewer’s… Continue reading Half Pint at PiratePalooza!
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