PiratePalooza 2008 a GO!!

THUNDER!!! but that were a terrible storm we just encountered…. the entire Palooza has been blown into a strange new sea we’ve never traversed afore…. and we’ve just learned where it is that we’ll finally come ashore… why, it’s The James Joyce Irish Pub in Avondale Estates!!! HUZZZZAHHH!!!! If you’ve never been to the James… Continue reading PiratePalooza 2008 a GO!!

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Palooza Concert 2008

Every pirate knows that PiratePalooza™ is about music and the salty musicians what brings it to us. Whether it be long-hauls, sheet-drags, capstan shanties, stamp-n-go’s, pumpin’ or fo’c’s’le shanties, you’ll find us singin’ about sailing, drinking and wenching. Now, without further adieu allow me to announce our line-up for the 2008 Pubcrawl!! Wine, Woman, and… Continue reading Palooza Concert 2008

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Raise Anchor 2008!!

Look alive you sorry dogs, the seas are high and the Palooza is calling! It be only 10 days before we invade Decatarrrr and there be much to be done ahead of the invasion… like getting our T-shirts! This year we’ll be treatin’ ourselves to a fyne chocolate brown shirt to commemorate the glory that… Continue reading Raise Anchor 2008!!

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PiratePalooza™ ’07 Clip: Mary Ellen Carter

Excited about the upcoming 2008 PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl?? Here’s a great raw clip from Sandra Sparks’ documentation of the music of the 2007 PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl Concert to tide you through…. The two person group doing the singing are Susan Hickey and Gregg Csikos and are called The Rambling Sailors, and have fans all around the U.S.… Continue reading PiratePalooza™ ’07 Clip: Mary Ellen Carter

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That Thing in September…

Have you ever been to “that thing” what happens over in Decatarrrr every Septembarrr? That thing with the seafaring entrepreneurs and the pubs and the crawling and the concerts? You know, the birthday for the space pirate what be known around these parts as Captain Drew? Did you really like it all that much? Really??… Continue reading That Thing in September…

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PiratePalooza 2007 Booty Music Album (free!)

We have one last surprise for you from this year’s PiratePalooza™ and no, it’s not your hamburger (didn’t you hear? they’re still a little behind in the kitchen). No, our little surprise is an “internet album” of pirate-themed music from some of the very same performers you saw on stage at this year’s PiratePalooza™ on… Continue reading PiratePalooza 2007 Booty Music Album (free!)

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PP2007: Booty Music Track 02 – “Captain Kidd”

Track 02 of the PiratePalooza Booty Music album finds that nefarious anarchist Joni Minstrel singing a lovely first person narrative of that prankster of the seven seas, Captain Kidd. Sure he killed a few people… okay, a lot of people… but it’s hard work taking things from other people. Shouldn’t there be some sort of… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 02 – “Captain Kidd”

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PP2007: Booty Music Track 03 – “Pirate’s Life”

In Track 03 of the PiratePalooza Booty Music album Susan Hickey and Gregg Csikos of the Rambling Sailors grab you round the collar and fling you high to the world of free-booted pirates in this song called “Pirate’s Life”. Look around your sad little cubicle and feel the blood course hot through your veins… take… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 03 – “Pirate’s Life”

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PP2007: Booty Music Track 04 – “Strike the Bell”

What is that sweet sound?! Why, it be Track 04 featuring’ the Rambling Sailors with their lovely old-salt harmonies and trademark authentic squeezebox!! Just try listening to this song without bobbin’ your head and wishin’ you were facin’ into the wind aboard a ship bound some faraway rum-soaked shore!

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PP2007: Booty Music Track 05 – “Whiskey is the Life of Man”

On Track 05 of the PiratePalooza Booty Music album you’ll find Mister Ian O’Donnell spinnin’ us a jig-worthy ditty that’ll have you hoppin’ about like a drunk monkey in hot tar. No, I don’t know what that means either. Still, the song is peppy and I’ve no doubts you’re going to like it! You’re going… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 05 – “Whiskey is the Life of Man”

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PP2007: Booty Music Track 06 – “Rigged Our Ship”

Way, hey, Track 06 on the PiratePalooza Booty Music album finds Mister Ian O’Donnell puttin’ us to mind o’ the hard business o’ keepin’ a good ship fit and true… let alone operating her as a law-abiding business. Sometimes it’s just bloody easier to take what you need than to do all that hard work… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 06 – “Rigged Our Ship”

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PP2007: Booty Music Track 07 – “Pirate Annie’s Chest”

Track 07 on the Booty Album has become yet another enormous hit for the talented members of Three Quarter Ale and a favorite for their fans both new and olde – finding it on this album is a genuine gift to those of us who count themselves among their fans! Sporting a decidedly roguish sound… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 07 – “Pirate Annie’s Chest”

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PP2007: Booty Music Track 08 – “The Black Spot”

Track 08 of the PiratePalooza Booty Music album finds us at the mercy of a dangerously cutthroat incarnation of Three Quarter Ale, stalking ’round the deck singing of that most-dreaded of piratical death warrants: The Black Spot. Featuring a performance by that raven-haired temptress Rosemary Quench at her most cruel, you’ll marvel at this story… Continue reading PP2007: Booty Music Track 08 – “The Black Spot”

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