Toucan Dubh at PiratePalooza!

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!

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Tenpenny Travelers at PiratePalooza!

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!

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Linen Brocade at PiratePalooza!

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…

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LandLoch’d at PiratePalooza!

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!

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Half Pint at PiratePalooza!

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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The Wrath of Palooza

Wouldn’t YOU like to know what this is all about? 😉 Secrets! 😉

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It Was A PiratePalooza™ Miracle

This past Saturday we celebrated the 9th edition of the PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl and Pubsing by invading the City of Decatarrrr and challenging the ghost of Commodore Stephen Decatur yet again (it’s a pirate tradition). As the clock ticked out the final 24 hours leading to the invasion I had to accept the hard truth that… Continue reading It Was A PiratePalooza™ Miracle

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Announcing PiratePalooza™ 2013

So pleased was I over the success of last week’s 8th Annual PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl and Pubsing that I’m skipping my traditional unplanned press conference a few months before the event and am instead giving you an entire year to plan for the invasion of Decatarrrr on the 21st of Septembarrrr, 2013. Carve that date into… Continue reading Announcing PiratePalooza™ 2013

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2012 PiratePalooza™ Sponsors

I’m so very proud of the sponsors for my 8th Annual PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl & Pubsing and wanted to tell you all about them, because how many companies do YOU know what be willing to endorse piracy in this day and age?? May it be writ in the big book of piracy that Onyx Consulting, Oz… Continue reading 2012 PiratePalooza™ Sponsors

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