There Be Pirates!
Music fit for a Party - A Boarding Party!
Southern California’s Premiere Pirate Jam Band 760-820-1222 - www.therebepirates.net
“Pirate-Approved!!!
Have a Swashbuckling Grand Time! What could be more fun than a Buccaneer Ball, a Pyrate Party, or a piratical-themed event?
These lads and lasses are well steeped in the traditional shanties, Celtic music, and tavern songs, but they certainly don’t stick with the traditional renditions. They chew them up, and spit them back up again in forms new and delicious, full of energy and new life. They renovate shanties and old songs into blues, rock, gypsy music, belly dance rhythms, and even conga dance music. At a recent St. Patrick’s Day Melee we attended they got a roomful of pirates to dance, sing, shout, and bounce along all night. A true musical adventure.”
THREE SKULLS UP!!! – Jamaica Rose No Quarter Given magazine
If’n ye answered, “Why, nothing, of course,” then ye’ll be spared from experiencing firsthand some of arrgghh more quaint customs - fer now, “We danced the night away...” anyway..... There Be Pirates! be the premiere pirate jam band ta sail these waters! Arrrgghhh group takes traditional sea music, drinking songs, and pirate ditties, mixes ‘em with some original piratical compositions, n’ serve ‘em up hot, fun, and danceable fer yer crew! We can also provide full shows, including fire dancers, belly dancers, re-enactors & even pirate bling & decor fer yer guests. We be perfect fer yer organization’s special event, concerts, festivals, fundraisers, romantic weddings, and parties. So, be bookin’ yer special pirate party soon, before There Be Pirates! sails off once again ta cruize English waters this next summer. And don't forget to pirate a copy of the band’s CDs Drink & the Devil, and Pirates in the Desert! Watch fer more There Be Pirates! CDs this coming year!
About There Be Pirates! There Be Pirates! Is a 7-piece (more or less), acoustically-based band that specializes in taking songs of the sea (many 150 years old or so), traditional Irish songs, pirate ditties, originals & more, and performing them in an entertaining, accessible, and often danceable, format. The crew are all accomplished musicians in their own right. They are led by Shanghai Brown, whose previous musical incarnations have been as a traditional shantyman in the Puget Sound area, as well as a singer and drummer in rock bands. There Be Pirates! got its start in early 2006, with its first gig on St. Paddy’s Day that year. Since then, the band has performed at music festivals, concerts, benefits, pyrate pool n addition to completing parties, museums, pubs, and more. There Be work on their albums, Pirates! toured England in the summers of 2009 Drink & the Devil, and and 2010, performing at On the Waterfront Pirates in the Desert, There (50,000, Liverpool), Sea Fest (headlining both Be Pirates! has possible years, Scarborough), Danby Castle, Merseyside Maritime Museum, and more. The band packed performances from Ireland to Las Vegas being the Queen Mary to capacity for the launch negotiated at present. party of Pyrate Daze in 2009, and headlined The band’s rendition the Shoreline Village Pirate Fest in Long Beach, California, and Southern California's of Derelict (the song the largest International Talk Like a Pirate Day pirates sing in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure celebration in San Pedro, California (2011). Island - you know, “Yo ho There Be Pirates! has been featured on HDnet TV’s national series, “Deadline,” with Katie ho and a bottle of rum…”), is featured on Lafitte’s Daryll (vh1 & mtv hostette). They have Return Vol II, a benefit performed repeatedly for the Port Royal album raising funds for Privateers, a famed re-enactment musical instruments for organization. The Privateers bring the band New Orleans schools after homemade rum & have declared them “best Hurricane Katrina. pirate band.” There Be Pirates!’ two CDs have received “...another wondrous evening of critical acclaim, & sell internationally. The music and song. We so much enjoy you and your band members and band has been a guest on both BBC radio, all your & Music World Radio. Shanghai Brown has talents to keep our spirits high and lectured on piratical history at the Hi-Desert keep us dancing.” Nature Museum.
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“T’was a grand affair...”
There Be Pirates! For more information on There Be Pirates!, or to book There Be Pirates! For your special event, please e-mail therebepiratesmail@yahoo.com, or call 760-820-1222. We’ll be glad to work with you to create a fun, appropriate event for your venue, whether it’s a buccaneers ball, pyrate party, beach bash, music or maritime festival, St. Patrick’s Day or International Talk Like a Pirate Day event, yacht club party, school performance, concert, pub night, shanty sing, artist in residence, etc. The band’s website, www.therebepirates.net offers more information and links to CDBaby, My Space, Facebook, as well as additional information. Playing all the hits - of the 17th Century!
A Selection of U.S. Performances The River (shopping center), Rancho Mirage, CA Water Canyon Coffee Co., Yucca Valley, CA The 29 Palms Inn, 29 Palms, CA Art Queen, Joshua Tree, CA Desert Hot Springs Spa Hotel, Desert Hot Springs, CA Chuckwalla Fest, Joshua Tree Retreat Center, Joshua Tree, CA Chuckwalla Fest, Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace, Pioneertown, CA (also backing Juke Logan as The Blues Pirates)
Pirates N’ Plunder, Whittier, CA (Featured on HDNet TV)
Pyrate Daze Festival, The Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA The Whale & Ale English Pub, San Pedro, CA
(Including Southern California’s largest International Talk Like a Pirate Day party)
Shoreline Village Pirate Festival, Long Beach, CA Port Royal Privateeers Private Parties, Joshua Tree, CA The Phoenix Project West Buccaneers Ball, Yucca Valley, CA Hi-Desert Nature Museum, Yucca Valley, CA
(HDNM also featured a lecture by Shanghai Brown on piratical history)
Mountains Community Hospital Foundation Pirate’s Bounty Le Grand Picnic benefit, Lake Arrowhead, CA Various classroom performances
A Selection of U.K. Performances Danby Castle (Pirates in the Desert CD Release Party), Danby On the Waterfront festival, Albert Dock, Liverpool Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool 10th Anniversary SeaFest, Scarborough (headlining, multiple venues) 11th Anniversary SeaFest, Scarborough (headlining, multiple venues) Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole The Captain Cook, Staithes The Queen Catherine, Osmotherley
Media Coverage
HDNet TV, U.S. Z-107 FM Local Music Spotlight, Joshua Tree, CA KJET FM Local Music Radio, Joshua Tree, CA No Quarter Given Pirate Magazine, International Bilgemunky Pirate Radio, International (Internet) Trossen Los, The Netherlands (FM) BBC, UK (various) World Music Radio, UK/International (Internet) Desert Valley Star, Desert Hot Springs, CA Hi-Desert Star, Yucca Valley, CA The Desert Trail, 29 Palms, CA The Sun Runner Magazine, California desert region Various Liverpool, Scarborough, and California newspapers, blogs, etc.