From chumbucket at talklikeapirate.com Thu Mar 3 10:13:05 2022 From: chumbucket at talklikeapirate.com (chumbucket at talklikeapirate.com) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 13:13:05 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Poopdeck] The Poopdeck, Official Newsletter of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, March 2, 2022 Message-ID: <1879913804.29626971.1646331185795.JavaMail.zimbra@talklikeapirate.com> The POOPDECK The Official Newsletter of International Talk Like a Pirate Day March 3 , 2022, Issue No. 156 Issued when the fancy strikes. Edited by Ol' Chumbucket The Pirate World is Stirring The big event in St. Augustine ? the induction ceremony for the Order of Leviathan ( [ https://www.facebook.com/groups/504633997285923 | https://www.facebook.com/groups/504633997285923 ] check it out) ? is over after a thrilling three days, but it's just the start of the excitement. Festivals and freebooter fun stuff was pretty much shut down for two years by the pandemic, but now it seems pirates are beginning to lay plans for roistering and excitement all across the map. Here's a few events coming in the next few months ? barring a recurrence of the damned COVID. These are just a few that I happened to run across, a random selection. If you know of others ? and I'm sure you do ? by all means let me know so I can spread the word. Some of these have admission fees, some don't. You'll have to check online to find out. ? Pirate Fest Las Vegas: March 26 and 27 at Craig Ranch Regional Park, 628 W Craig Rd, North Las Vegas, NV It's billed as a fun family festival including pirates, Renaissance and fantasy. More info at [ http://www.piratefestlv.com/ | http://www.piratefestlv.com ] ? Pirates of the Pontchartrain: April 2 - April 3 , just across the lake from New Orleans at the site of the Louisiana Renaissance Festival, 46468 River Road, Hammond LA 70401 Entertainment includes music from our filibuster friends, the Whiskey Bay Rovers. Look it up here. [ https://www.lapop.net/ | https://www.lapop.net ] ? Tennessee Pirate Fest: the last two weekends of May ? May 2 -22 and 28-29-30. Entertainment includes original pirate tunes by the inimitable Tom Mason and the Blue Buccaneers. Check it out here. [ https://www.facebook.com/Tennesseepiratefest/ | https://www.facebook.com/Tennesseepiratefest/ ] ? Hampton (Virginia) Blackbeard Festival: June 4 and 5 in downtown Hampton. It's easy to find, just look for the flood of pirates heading down to the waterfront. Haven't found much more information about this year's event online yet. But let me just say for the record, the Blackbeard Festival is THE best pirate festival I've been to, and the crew that runs it are just great folks. If there's ANY chance to go, you definitely should make a point of it. ? The Alki Beach Pirate Landing, Seattle: June 25 (although that date's not yet set in stone) The famed and ferocious Seafair Pirates will once again storm the beach at Alki in West Seattle, bringing their own brand of mayhem as they kick off the city's annual Seafair event. Families crowd the Puget Sound shoreline to watch with delight and horror (horrified delight?) as the buccaneers land. More information on Facebook. [ https://www.facebook.com/SeattleSeafairPirates | https://www.facebook.com/SeattleSeafairPirates ] ? Northwest Pirate Festival: July 9 -10. Thurston County Fairgrounds, 3054 Carpenter Rd SE, Lacey, WA They're still lining up performers and vendors, so there's no listing yet. Check 'em out here. [ https://www.facebook.com/nwpiratefestival | https://www.facebook.com/nwpiratefestival ] And if you are organizing or know of another festival somewhere on this globe of ours, let me know by dropping a message to chumbucket at talklikeapirate.com. So put on your freebooter finery, get out there and have some fun. If it's a pirate festival, you almost can't go wrong. Thanks ? Ol' Chumbucket, ed. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: